sKiM

I just realized when I wrote the title for this blog that Skim's actual name is it her nickname - Kim. Wow, that took awhile.
My fist thoughts on reading this book were that is was so different that anything else I have ever read. It shows you the images rather than you having to come up with them in your mind. This leaves little to the imagination when it comes to this visual literature... but I thought the story line made up for that. I was really surprised when Skim fell in love with her teacher. I was so confused and it was something that I didn't see coming. When skimming (no pun intended!) through the book I would have never thought that to be part of the storyline, especially since it won the best illustrated children's book award. This part of the story provided a sort of mystery to the reader because it is hard to understand the relationship they had and also the feeling that Ms. Archer is having because we can't see her thought bubbles. The end left me hanging a little as to what exactly happened, it is sort left up to the reader to figure it out.

Woman Meets World

We continue talking about women and body image so I wanted to find the two types of beauty out there. Here is the difference between the media's view of beauty and a realistic form of beauty. To me, the girl on the top looks like she needs to be taken to the hospital and get a feeding tube in her pronto. The bottom girl looks like a normal women that has beauty that is attainable. I also noticed that the girl on the top is showing wayyy more skin than the woman on the bottom - as if they are trying to cover her up! In any case, the woman on the bottom is beautiful and should be kind of woman the media shows.

Kinky Girl

Manifest Destiny
-"It's not like the famous episode in which Lucy and Ethel try a day or work, boxing chocolates on an assembly line in the U.S. They stuff most of the quick-coming candy into their mouths, laugh brown drool when they are fired because it doesn't really matter - Ricky and Fred have good jobs. To prove they're the ones who belong at work, the men on TV make a mess in Lucy's kitchen, a pot of rice exploding like a white volcano."

I found this to be an interesting passage in the book. It is making fun and showing the different roles that are given to men and women. Most typically, women have the jobs at home, taking care of the children and cooking. For men, they are meant to have jobs out in the world and bring in the money. Denise Duhamel makes this into a humorous scene with brining in the image of Lucy. Nowadays, the roles are starting to be flipped and women are going out into the working world. For instance, the Barbie Doll that is the vision of the book is made by women in facotories over seas.