Our Ghost world

I was not really into graphic novels nor comics until I read Maus and Ghost world, I found it a very special genre in literature, because with a short dialogue and just one image the author is capable of creating a whole story in our minds. It is also remarkable the fact that graphic novelists have a great talent when writing and drawing.

Ghost world is a clear refection of life, and of how we see each other, and as Raúl explained very well on his post, how we believe we see each other.

The characrter of Enid is quite special and reflects a lot of what postmodernism is, to criticize and to care only about yourself.That is shown in many aspects of the novel, for instance, when she and rebecca call a man  pretending to be "the redhead" with the only purpose of laugh at him. They are always criticizing people around them, even their friends, at the end of the novel, they are individualistic even with temselves, they are not the "team" anymore, and enid leave the town without her friend.


As I see it, we all are like them, we criticize everyone, their looks, their outfits, their behaviour, their likes, etc. And I do not think it is wrong at all, I mean it is part of our society, of the time in history that we are living in,just like Hemingway's characters in The sun also rises, and their lives after both World Wars, as the modernist poets, criticizing and questioning this new era, as Vladek Spiegelman acts after the horrors that he had to suffer, and so on.

All things considered, now that we are in a port-modernist context (or post-postmodernism) we cannot fall on deaf ears and pretend that we all care about each other and do not feel bother because of their likes or behaviours. In addition to that, we cannot left beheind the fact that the context influences literature, and how we interpret it.