Thursday, March 11, 2010

Summary # 7

In "The I.M.s of Romeo and Juliet" Roz Chast uses a cartoon to express how laid-back people, especially teens and youth, are getting with their conversations among other things. The cartoonist takes the old and very intricate novel of "Romeo and Juliet" and translates it into the language that today's youth would use. To fully grasp where the author/illustrator was headed with her humor the reader needs to have heard of the original "Romeo and Juliet", which most people today have. In the original the characters use very articulate and proper language and they are verbally talking to one another because they didn't have the technologies of nowadays. In Chast's cartoon the characters are utilizing the technology we have by texting each other over the computer. Instead of using correct English the characters use slang, such as "lol" for laughter and "rents" for parents. They don't even right out words such as too or why; instead they use abbreviations such as "2" or "y'". The words alone in this cartoon express the author's opinion. However, if the reader still doesn't get the gust of the author's purpose, they can simply glance at the illustration around it. Both of the characters are sitting or laying in front of a screen while the entire room they are in is a mess; there are cans books, food, electronic devices, etc.. laying on the ground around them. Chast is trying to display that today's youth is becoming more and more lazy with the recent advances in things such as our technology.

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