Nick and Alethia

We chose to write about the panel on the top of Pg. 52 where Pedro was breaking out with blisters from his shingles. He was staring at himself in the mirror. Having these blisters on his face was a real wake-up call for him on how different he was from everyone else and how his life was about to change from a normal teen to someone living with AIDS. His life as he knew it was never going to be the same. We believe that this panel was one of the many in this novel as a main point of the story. Without this panel we as readers wouldn’t be able to feel what Pedro was going through. The repeating statements of Pedro’s thoughts in the panel show that Pedro was thinking at a fast pace almost overlapping his thoughts at time. In the panel he was holding the mirror with his hand was a very symbolic as if he was trying to convince himself this was real and really happening to him.