Miss Emma In A Lesson Before Dying
For a media adaptation of a character from the novel A Lesson Before Dying, I chose Miss Emma. Miss Emma is a strong woman that represents everything that a woman aspires to be. In this adaptation, I imagine that Miss Emma would behave just as she would in the novel; with confidence, spirituality, and toughness. When Miss Emma makes up her mind, “I don't want them to kill no hog… I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet" (Gaines, 13), people knew that there was no stopping her. Regardless of whether “the conversation was over” (20), Miss Emma continuously held firm to her decision, saying she’ll “be here again tomorrow…” (20). Along with her toughness, Miss Emma’s spirituality will carry on to the adaptation, which was apparent
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I feel that this is an appropriate choice as it helps readers visualize what occurs in the novel. With a comic book adaptation, we can appeal to a larger audience and allow the authors ideas to become further coherent through images that show details that the original adaptation could not. For example, in the novel many emotions are felt, or so we are told but we don’t get to see them on their face. With a comic book, the audience can reengage with the book when it gets boring. Some of the challenges that a comic book would create when being used to adapt Miss Emma from the novel includes the artist’s ability to capture the thoughts of Ernest Gaines through his art. This could become a large problem as the artist can impact the audience’s understanding of Gaines words. Another problem that is common with many comic book adaptations is loss of key words. With a comic book the number of words is limited as they are often portrayed with images. Furthermore, with a comic book, there is a large chance that many important moments and quotes can be altered or completely removed, again influencing the audience’s interpretation of Gaines words. I would meet these challenges by researching possible illustrations that Gaines previously had as well as further researching his personal life to establish what Miss Emma could be based off. I could also reduce the limit of words by creating a slightly
I feel that this is an appropriate choice as it helps readers visualize what occurs in the novel. With a comic book adaptation, we can appeal to a larger audience and allow the authors ideas to become further coherent through images that show details that the original adaptation could not. For example, in the novel many emotions are felt, or so we are told but we don’t get to see them on their face. With a comic book, the audience can reengage with the book when it gets boring. Some of the challenges that a comic book would create when being used to adapt Miss Emma from the novel includes the artist’s ability to capture the thoughts of Ernest Gaines through his art. This could become a large problem as the artist can impact the audience’s understanding of Gaines words. Another problem that is common with many comic book adaptations is loss of key words. With a comic book the number of words is limited as they are often portrayed with images. Furthermore, with a comic book, there is a large chance that many important moments and quotes can be altered or completely removed, again influencing the audience’s interpretation of Gaines words. I would meet these challenges by researching possible illustrations that Gaines previously had as well as further researching his personal life to establish what Miss Emma could be based off. I could also reduce the limit of words by creating a slightly