The genre I find myself interacting with the most is graphic novels. The medium for graphic novels is split between reading a physical copy in book format or reading it online in digital format. The books can range from tens of pages to a couple hundred, they’re mainly characterized as longer comics with a coherent narrative throughout the novel rather than being split between several issues, though a fair amount of comics will create graphic novels out of several issues that tie into one another to be read all the way through in one book. Graphic novels are characterized by being images of the story drawn out with dialogue included, it usually skips the descriptive text about the scenery that other books use because it can be seen and doesn’t need to be imagined by the audience. The tone, humor, and language depend solely on the creator, but for action and comedic scenes especially, these novels usually dedicate text bubbles to sound effects or other use of the images to further enhance a given scene or panel. As previously stated the language isn’t necessarily descriptive in the same way a book is because graphic novels can skip over describing a location or event because it can be seen by the viewers and only explains these things if deemed necessary or out of preference.
Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is an autobiographical piece depicting some of her experiences with language. The language used is very exemplified and descriptive, mentioning specific events from her past as well as her view on terms synonymous with “Broken language”. She writes about particular experiences in which she has had to talk for her mother while pretending to be here just to get people to take her mother’s requests seriously. As well as how she sees her English skills as average when compared to her mathematics and science.
