Pedro and Me Group Analysis
We chose the full page panel on pg. 150 of Pedro and Me for numerous reasons. It is during the final days of Pedro’s life. He sick and suffering, but the panel depicts him in a peaceful and somber light. This is during the time that Pedro has chosen to not be on life support. With the thoughts of the pain that his family went through with the death of his mother, it only felt right to him. This shows his selflessness even when facing his own death. The text reveals his appearance and the differences are explained to us comparing how he looked while on life support and when he was taken off life support. This panel is very different from all the others. Most of the panels have a lot of detail, showing physical features of the characters and their surroundings. In this panel, we need to rely on the text to convey the overall message in giving us information about Pedro’s current state and his physical characteristics. The colors, though black and white with no detail, are important and set the mood for the panel. The black background and the silhouette of Pedro allow us to focus directly on Pedro, without other distractions and his current physical appearance. The white silhouette shows Pedro in a peaceful light. How the text appears is very important in this panel also. The black, all capital letter words, are set on a white solid background to show their importance. The reader is able to see the words immediately, without having to recognize where or who they are coming from. This panel seems to be the transitional stage between Pedro on and off life support by describing his health. Judd does a great job of expressing this panel without much detail. The presence of Pedro in the panel is strong, with the darkness behind him, he seems be the light. The most symbolic part of this panel is the outline of Pedro’s body along with the black background. It shows that the details and things we worry about in life at the end don’t matter anymore.
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I like the way that you did your post. It was easy to read with no mistakes in grammer. I like the reference at the end about how the things we worry about in life at the end don't matter anymore...I didn't even see it like that before. I was wondering if you noticed that the description of his appearance almost goes with the colors, at first he looked good, and the silhouette is white, then he became ill looking and the darkness takes over. You did a really good job describing the post even though there was not a lot of detail to go on. Great post.
ReplyDeleteGood job organizing your thoughts and answering the questions. Your paragraph flowed nicely, and you had a very good detailed analysis of the panel. I like how you chose a very different panel from all the rest, which have a lot of detail. I also think the symbolism you chose was great; I did not see that until I read your thoughts. I thought Judd made this a silhouette possibly because of how he said his eyes were bloodshot and his skin started to pull back from his face. I thought maybe he didn’t want to show him like that to the readers. Overall it was a great post, good job.
ReplyDeleteYou three did a great job on your analysis. I think you really did understand the panel and did a great job explaining it. I really liked your description of him being in a peaceful and somber light. I think it would be how he would like to have been remembered. I also agree with you that you do need to rely on the text to fully understand what is happening, especially if you do not read the preceding page, because he is represented so peaceful here.
ReplyDeleteGood job with your analysis of this panel. I especially liked how detailed your interpretation was. I agree with you on the part of Pedro being completely selfless in wishing to be taken of life support. It is a very difficult thing to watch someone struggle for days before dieing because of life support. Great job with this one guys.
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