{"id":1010,"date":"2017-05-02T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2017-05-02T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:36:00","slug":"what-is-that-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/what-is-that-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"What is that creature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/d1cb2fd2-aece-4d02-bffd-1cc8cf77478c-576x720.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1011 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/d1cb2fd2-aece-4d02-bffd-1cc8cf77478c-576x720-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/d1cb2fd2-aece-4d02-bffd-1cc8cf77478c-576x720-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/d1cb2fd2-aece-4d02-bffd-1cc8cf77478c-576x720.jpeg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The cover of &#8220;The Arrival&#8221;\u00a0is a\u00a0sepia tone photograph of a man (we soon learn he is an immigrant) and a creature peering up at him. This creature continues to be\u00a0present throughout the majority of the graphic novel and can perhaps be interpreted as the man&#8217;s roommate. I think the use of an indiscernible creature instead of a human is an interesting choice. It illustrates that people view other cultures and races\u00a0as possibly subhuman. I think that the creature in this story pokes fun at this notion and emphasizes that although strangers may seem like monsters, they are really\u00a0that different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What are other people&#8217;s interpretations of the creature? Why do you think\u00a0Shaun Tan includes it? Especially on the cover of the book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover of &#8220;The Arrival&#8221;\u00a0is a\u00a0sepia tone photograph of a man (we soon learn he is an immigrant) and a creature peering up at him. This creature continues to be\u00a0present throughout the majority of the graphic novel and can perhaps be interpreted as the man&#8217;s roommate. I think the use of an indiscernible creature instead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/what-is-that-creature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is that creature?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}