In this essay am going to talk about the novel, “The arrival”. the book arrival has no words it’s just full of pictures that describes what’s happening to the man and his life in pictures. My essay will tell you about this novel and what it has to say about immigration. Shaun Tan cares a lot about this idea. The arrival is a novel about one immigrant trying to leave one place to go to another.”The arrival” is also a wordless images telling us a man leaving his wife and kid going to another place to escape his family without telling his wife and kid.
The first picture tells us about immigration because immigration just doesn’t come from one country, it comes from several different country and races. Shaun Tan used this picture because it’s telling us that the story and what’s the story about. You can tell they are migrants from what clothes they are wearing and their face expression. the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat.
In ‘The Arrival’, the absence of any written description also plants the reader more firmly in the shoes of an immigrant character.Shaun Tan uses pictures instead of words so he can get point around in pictures not words. I think he used no words to be more creative.The man leaves his family and goes on a ship to a different country to put his life back on track. On the ship the man was waving good bye as it was going to be his last time seeing them ever and ever. He was having second thoughts
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