Sunday, July 26, 2009
Strategies Used by Barry
Assignment 2.5
Lynda Barry comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” gives a message of tolerance. The essay opens the door to societal intolerance of difference. The way we talk, the way we look, or the cultural difference makes ethnicity special. One heritage gives an individual a sense of belonging and pride. Heritage is special. Unhealthy pride causes intolerance.
I believe Barry’s main purpose of the comic strip is to show that all cultures have distinctions, therefore tolerance, empathy, and understanding, is needed to commune peacefully as a society.
Strategies Barry uses to rely the message in “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” is shown as a comic strip. The comic strip is a method that communicates fun but important ideas. Comic strips are used in politics, news, and the media, just as a friendly reminder “this situation” is still over our head but that needs to be dealt with. It gives a more relaxed message for serious situations. Another strategy Barry uses is displaying herself as a young child. Most children are usually unbiased and are free from judgment. Children don’t see color, heritage, or pride. Displaying herself as a young child also lightens up communicating the message.
Barry’s topic in “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” is an uncomfortable subject for those who want to stand with the politically correct crowd. It is un-nerving for some who have not decided to follow the alliance of injustice. Society has dealt with intolerance, bigotry, and bias for centuries. Yet instill, culture indifference still exist. Barry’s comic strip demonstrates the intolances of difference in unsimiliar cultures.
The author writes this comic strip for society as a whole. It can reach by the masses. Easy accessibility of a newspaper or news articles on the web help in delivering information. Comic strips are a part of society’s daily media. In addition, the majority understands the format of the message written in comic strips. Barry’s message of tolerance can be talked about at the dinner table; it can be viewed at the office; and most important the message is delivered.
Is it time (for all) to unite as a multi-culture society and allow each culture difference to increase humanity growth into a new society? Can this be done?
Is this possible?
Barry as a young child in the comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” welcomed the variety of different smells:
A. I have always noticed the smell of other people’s houses, but when I was a kid, I was fascinated by it. No two houses ever smelled alike, even if the people used the same air fresher.
Barry comments: what’s that kind again?
Neighbor comments: fresh evergreen glen
Barry comments: Yeah. At the birdman’s they got the same kind but here it smells like a fresh, um, bus bathroom.
B. Some of the smells were uncomplicated, like the cat pee smell of the house next door. The lady had 14 cats. It was hard to stay and visit. She sometimes burned incense with also smelled like cat pee.
Barry action: breathing through my mouth
Neighbor 2: have some peanut brittle, dear. Just pick the fur off if you’re fussy, but it won’t hurt you none. (Panel 52)
Barry as a young child in the comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” welcomed the variety of different smells. The variety peaked Barry’s interest, not only the smell but also the people behind the smell. She became more interested in her neighbors. Visiting all the houses in the neighborhood she learned more and more about the people she lived with. Barry as a young child began to learn flexibility. Flexibility is the ability of being bent, usually without breaking. Barry does not make any judgment about her neighbors she just looks and listen as she realizes the differences.
Learning this skill of tolerance allowed Barry to have an open mind, learn about other cultures while adding more knowledge to her own heritage. It appears doing this one action seemed to be a positive attribute. In most cases, it can only benefit. By opening this door, society can too enhance benefits as a whole to increase or add to one’s own personal knowledge. Now the lack of synthesis in society has shown factual truths of discord.
Zadie Smith essay “Speaking in Tongues” exemplify adding to rather than singularity. “It never occurred to me that I was adding Cambridge to Willesden, this new way of talking to that old way. Adding a new kind of knowledge to a different kind I already had. And for a while, that’s how it was at home, during the holidays, I spoke with my old voice, and in old voice seemed to feel and speak things that I couldn’t express in college, and vice versa. I felt a sort of wonder at the flexibility of the thing. But flexibility is something that requires work if it is to be maintained”. (Smith 1 of 14)
Smith expresses the skill of communication take practice to keep it from fading. Communicating outside of one’s own culture takes even more practice. It should not be seen as trading one language or verbiage for another but rather include and new way of speaking to one’s original language. Including both languages shows wiliness to communicate fully and demonstrate flexibility.
Another panel from Lynda Barry comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents”
Shows how societal communities have not continued to watch their own differences.
A. Of course the biggest mystery of all was my own house. I couldn’t smell it at all. I didn’t think it had a smell, which was strange considering all that went on there.
Barry smell in house: 9,000 cigarettes, jade east after-shave, jungle gardenia perfume dog that rolls on things, fried smelt, garlic, onions, ½ can of adorned hair spray.
B. I probably had the strongest smelling house in the neighborhood except for the bleach people. But I had no idea what it smelled like to others until I heard of a comment about it.
Neighbor girl comments: my mom says your people fry weird food and save the grease and that you boil pig’s blood, which is the reason for the smell.
Barry comment: what smell? (Panel 54)
Interpretation of quote
In this panel, Barry realized that she too has a heritage that had unique and special attributes. It did not dawn on her until her neighbor friend told her “my mom says your people fry weird food and save the grease and that you boil pig’s blood, which is the reason for the smell”. (Panel 54) At first, Barry could only notice the differences of others and did not realize the different in her. Like most people, Barry was totally unaware of how others seen her culture as different from their own. Realizing one specific quality may be a shock to the bearer.
Interpretation of quote
In Zadie Smith essay “Speaking in Tongues” “when your personal multiplicity is printed on your face, in an almost too obviously thematic manner, in your DNA, in your hair and in the neither this nor that beige of your skin – well, anyone can see you come to dream city”. (Smith 5 of 14)
Lynda Barry comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” gives a message of tolerance. The essay opens the door to societal intolerance of difference. The way we talk, the way we look, or the cultural difference makes ethnicity special. One heritage gives an individual a sense of belonging and pride. Heritage is special. Unhealthy pride causes intolerance.
I believe Barry’s main purpose of the comic strip is to show that all cultures have distinctions, therefore tolerance, empathy, and understanding, is needed to commune peacefully as a society.
Strategies Barry uses to rely the message in “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” is shown as a comic strip. The comic strip is a method that communicates fun but important ideas. Comic strips are used in politics, news, and the media, just as a friendly reminder “this situation” is still over our head but that needs to be dealt with. It gives a more relaxed message for serious situations. Another strategy Barry uses is displaying herself as a young child. Most children are usually unbiased and are free from judgment. Children don’t see color, heritage, or pride. Displaying herself as a young child also lightens up communicating the message.
Barry’s topic in “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” is an uncomfortable subject for those who want to stand with the politically correct crowd. It is un-nerving for some who have not decided to follow the alliance of injustice. Society has dealt with intolerance, bigotry, and bias for centuries. Yet instill, culture indifference still exist. Barry’s comic strip demonstrates the intolances of difference in unsimiliar cultures.
The author writes this comic strip for society as a whole. It can reach by the masses. Easy accessibility of a newspaper or news articles on the web help in delivering information. Comic strips are a part of society’s daily media. In addition, the majority understands the format of the message written in comic strips. Barry’s message of tolerance can be talked about at the dinner table; it can be viewed at the office; and most important the message is delivered.
Is it time (for all) to unite as a multi-culture society and allow each culture difference to increase humanity growth into a new society? Can this be done?
Is this possible?
Barry as a young child in the comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” welcomed the variety of different smells:
A. I have always noticed the smell of other people’s houses, but when I was a kid, I was fascinated by it. No two houses ever smelled alike, even if the people used the same air fresher.
Barry comments: what’s that kind again?
Neighbor comments: fresh evergreen glen
Barry comments: Yeah. At the birdman’s they got the same kind but here it smells like a fresh, um, bus bathroom.
B. Some of the smells were uncomplicated, like the cat pee smell of the house next door. The lady had 14 cats. It was hard to stay and visit. She sometimes burned incense with also smelled like cat pee.
Barry action: breathing through my mouth
Neighbor 2: have some peanut brittle, dear. Just pick the fur off if you’re fussy, but it won’t hurt you none. (Panel 52)
Barry as a young child in the comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents” welcomed the variety of different smells. The variety peaked Barry’s interest, not only the smell but also the people behind the smell. She became more interested in her neighbors. Visiting all the houses in the neighborhood she learned more and more about the people she lived with. Barry as a young child began to learn flexibility. Flexibility is the ability of being bent, usually without breaking. Barry does not make any judgment about her neighbors she just looks and listen as she realizes the differences.
Learning this skill of tolerance allowed Barry to have an open mind, learn about other cultures while adding more knowledge to her own heritage. It appears doing this one action seemed to be a positive attribute. In most cases, it can only benefit. By opening this door, society can too enhance benefits as a whole to increase or add to one’s own personal knowledge. Now the lack of synthesis in society has shown factual truths of discord.
Zadie Smith essay “Speaking in Tongues” exemplify adding to rather than singularity. “It never occurred to me that I was adding Cambridge to Willesden, this new way of talking to that old way. Adding a new kind of knowledge to a different kind I already had. And for a while, that’s how it was at home, during the holidays, I spoke with my old voice, and in old voice seemed to feel and speak things that I couldn’t express in college, and vice versa. I felt a sort of wonder at the flexibility of the thing. But flexibility is something that requires work if it is to be maintained”. (Smith 1 of 14)
Smith expresses the skill of communication take practice to keep it from fading. Communicating outside of one’s own culture takes even more practice. It should not be seen as trading one language or verbiage for another but rather include and new way of speaking to one’s original language. Including both languages shows wiliness to communicate fully and demonstrate flexibility.
Another panel from Lynda Barry comic strip “Today’s Demon: Common Scents”
Shows how societal communities have not continued to watch their own differences.
A. Of course the biggest mystery of all was my own house. I couldn’t smell it at all. I didn’t think it had a smell, which was strange considering all that went on there.
Barry smell in house: 9,000 cigarettes, jade east after-shave, jungle gardenia perfume dog that rolls on things, fried smelt, garlic, onions, ½ can of adorned hair spray.
B. I probably had the strongest smelling house in the neighborhood except for the bleach people. But I had no idea what it smelled like to others until I heard of a comment about it.
Neighbor girl comments: my mom says your people fry weird food and save the grease and that you boil pig’s blood, which is the reason for the smell.
Barry comment: what smell? (Panel 54)
Interpretation of quote
In this panel, Barry realized that she too has a heritage that had unique and special attributes. It did not dawn on her until her neighbor friend told her “my mom says your people fry weird food and save the grease and that you boil pig’s blood, which is the reason for the smell”. (Panel 54) At first, Barry could only notice the differences of others and did not realize the different in her. Like most people, Barry was totally unaware of how others seen her culture as different from their own. Realizing one specific quality may be a shock to the bearer.
Interpretation of quote
In Zadie Smith essay “Speaking in Tongues” “when your personal multiplicity is printed on your face, in an almost too obviously thematic manner, in your DNA, in your hair and in the neither this nor that beige of your skin – well, anyone can see you come to dream city”. (Smith 5 of 14)
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