The Arrival Response
A picture is worth a thousand words and Shaun Tan knew this
when he made The Arrival. The intricacy of image narrates a full story without
the need of text. Each frame is a story telling composition that narrates the
life of a man which many people can relate to, an immigrant who leaves
everything he knows behind and moves to a new world in search of opportunity.
As an immigrant myself I know the feeling of stepping out of your comfort zone
and traveling to the unknown in search of something better. It is appropriate
that this story was told without words because it allows any person in the
world to interpret it regardless of culture and language barriers, it makes the
story universal and relatable.
Overall it was good seeing a positive take on
industrialization and the wave of immigrants that flocked to metropolis around
the world in the last century. In the end of the novel you can see this had an
overall positive effect on the man.
The last and first frame are very similar in the sense they are in the
dinner table, except you can tell that the ending is way better, brighter, more
positive than the beginning. The table has more food and other extravagant
dishes, the interaction between the man an his wife is warmer since they are leaning
towards each other.
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