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Shaun Tan Character Analysis
Shaun Tan effectively places the reader into the protagonist shoes through the evident problems of migration and personal connections to the issue. I was able to immediately empathize for the protagonist when the overall concept of migration was introduced into the graphic novel. I have travelled my entire life, not really fitting in or knowing how everything worked, everything seemed upside down just as in the graphic novel. The same struggles the protagonist faced I faced. Through this, Shaun Tan implies the real struggles of migration instead of the ‘perfect’ idea into what migration is which is mainly shown through the media. Another element that makes the reader empathize for the protagonist was introduced on the first page. There is always
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