Isaac- Catch Up

So this is my catch up- I'm pretty sure these are the only ones I haven't done but hopefully I'm not missing something else.

List the privileges you share with McIntosh? What disadvantages do you experience?
My skin varies which is something more interesting than I've really noticed before. In the summer I'm dark and in the winter I'm a white boy. I'm not really sure what the differences are between them other than in summer, I'm often perceived as chicano and treated as such. As far as privaleges go though, I have come from an upper middle class family, the result of my dad being an ex-employee of the silicon valley boom. I'm sure this helped put us where we were and would have been inhibited if my parents hadn't gotten a college education or my dad hadn't been white. I'm sure I wouldn't have experienced such an easy childhood if we hadn't had this money, something that is a direct corrolation to race.

Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you receive her narrative or point of view?
As was said in the lecture, the simplification of her thoughts or intentions really comes through in the graphic novel context and I beleive allows the reader to have a readier and more powerful emotional response. Often books lose their meaning or essence by trying to sound clever or poetic and forget to make their points clear. By using the graphic novel Satrapi completely steers clear of this problem and engages in a dialouge that the reader can easily understand and feel empathy for. The visual representation of the issues at hand put them into a format that cannot be ignored.
Isaac