Patience by Daniel Clowes was my second quarter read and also the main protagonist of this novel was my favorite like the past graphic novel I had read. Jack, main protagonist, does not have healthy or good job to take care of his pregnant wife, Patience. He works as an advertiser in the streets promoting an adults club through flyers. Even through his drawing, the reader could tell that he feels embarrassed for who he has and worst part is that Patience doesn't know he works for this job. Jack talks to himself quietly revealing his thoughts about how is he going to tell Patience how he has been barely making money for this family. At the beginning of the novel, Patience sees life as a curse and that's because of old memories from her teenage years that she hasn't in detail talked it out with Jack. So, both of these characters have secrets for themselves, but the reason why I like Jack as a character is because he is actually thinking in that day to reveal Patience what he works as. When Jacks gets home, he sees his wife shot and chocked dead. Jack is broken. His tone from that point of the story changes drastically into this grumpy and damaged man. Jack's attitude and way of talking with others reminded me of how Patience used to talk before she was murdered. So Jack became this unlikable person to his society until he figures out in the year of 2036 someone who has what he wants: a time travel device. Now, Jack set himself a goal and purpose to this life he was left in; he is going to save his baby. Jack's ambition is what I love and kept me reading each page after. From that point of the story I really felt bad for Jack and at times when he would speak in a rude manner I accepted it because I knew what he saw and has been through. Daniel Clowes made a wise choice to make this story a graphic novel so the reader could see the damage and stress drawn into Jack, the best character in this graphic novel. Jack's tone and ambition were the main highlights of his character and of this time-travel adventure.
This book looks good!That really sucks that he can't support his pregnant wife as much as he would like to. I can only imagine how he felt after he got home and saw his wife on the ground dead. That would be so sad and traumatizing.
ReplyDeleteYea and since it's a graphic novel, the drawings make you feel the message of scenes like this.
DeleteThe story seems to be a perfect fitting for a graphic novel, through as an artists perspective I am very interested.
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