GENRE: Technically, there were two, but the first could be written off as style. First and foremost, it is a graphic-novel, also known as a really long comic book. Secondly - and this one, I am ashamed to say - didn't click in my mind until the last few pages, it is a dystopia. Like many of this genre, portrays an imperfect world (our own) and compares it to what does happen in the last few pages - a real dystopia. Or utopia. Or whatever. Really, the recurring motif of the happy smiley face seen on all the movie posters should have tipped me off. It represents a perfect "utopia" in case you were wondering. All of you should know I have a weak spot for dystopias, and this book is just sitting on the periphery waiting to be let in. In case you don't know, I read more modern novels like this to give my reading a new scope and outlook and so I'm not fully ignorant of some new genre or something.
LITERARY TECHNIQUES: If you are like me, you look at a graphic novel and think techniques? No...there can't be any. But there are!!! I knew that there were certain levels of parallels in the plot beforehand, but my friend who forced me to read the book pointed out that one of the chapters titled "Fearful Symmetry" was very subtly symmetrical from front to back. On every page, either the coloring or the actions or the pictures were symmetrical.
The book was formed with a graphic section followed by a short "primary source" - a fictional newspaper article or some such writing. It broke up the surprisingly long book into shorter segments, which was pretty nice, I'm not gonna lie. All in all, I say not bad, but it's not a book I'll be looking to for rereads.
Such a guy book.
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