Pride of Baghdad

Saddam ibn Talal Hussein The force-out is down Pride of Baghdad, drawn by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, tells a story of assort of lions escaping from the zoo after the U. S. army starts invading Baghdad. In order to display how cruel essences that the war brings, the authors try to portray humans by pull the lions, the wait, and other animals. Due to its gorgeous drafting style and its concise dialogues, the apologue just now has 100 rogues however contains various meanings.In 2003, the Iraq war was triggered beca go for of Husseins violent forbiddance on the people, who have their own political views, but also his obstinacy of the large amount of illegal weapons. The novel not only presents the consequence of dictatorship, but also satirizes the interference of U. S. army because the public opinion says that the power of U. S. involving the war is impure since no evidence has been found to prove that Iraq has weapons of peck destruction. The main purpose of U. S. army invading is the oil resources in Iraq however, by coincidence, Hussein is on the reign, which causes the U.S. s excuse to invade. In this book, the authors stand at Bagdads civilians point of view to tell the story until they touch on shot by the U. S. army. More specifically, a fighting scene amongst the lions and the take up is not interpreted as the surface meaning but is created because the authors want to em frame that even though the civilians overthrown the power of Hussein, the U. S. army is the ane who eventually takes over their government power and causes the war. The lions and the bear both catch up with the civilians and Saddam Hussein.Towards almost the end of the story, referring to a specific page, a bear who shows up trying to block the lions way to freedom says Dont get up(where the pages background is the huge bear standing up with Noor and Safa verbalisming up). The authors purposely creates a giant sorry bear when the story almost reaches the end to show the power that Hussein holds during the his presidency. By looking at the expression on the bears face, readers can clearly see the anger through its bloody eyeball and sharp teeth with opening mouth.The shrewdest part of this graphic novel is its drawing style, using animals to portray humans. Throughout the idea of visual images, when readers first look at the bear, a sense of fear is emitted from its giant black body however, the lions, comparing the size with the bear, ar much weaker. The authors apply not only the visualized details, but also the literal ones in every sensation character. For instance, the names of the bear and the lions who is prisoned, Fajer and Rashid atomic number 18 both originated from Arabic language, which is also the decreed language in Iraq.Fajer means wicked and Rashid means rightly guided, which are opposite to each other however, the justice cant squash down the evil since Fajer already cleanups Rashid. According to the previous pag e, the authors purposely use special-effects lettering, a method of drawing attention to text of highlighting the words, on some of the words while the bear is speaking, PET, HIS, FAJER, and MAN(the page where the bear first shows up with only its eyes and mouth).The PET represents the weakness of the justice under Husseins dictatorship, and oppositely, the MAN of the house implies the dangerous power that Hussein holds. In addition, in order to describe the conflict between good and evil, the authors use graphic weight to focus on the drawing of colors between the bear and lions, which are black and white.Even supposition this particular page only contains one panel, it really embodies the representations between the civilians who are under suppressed and Saddam Hussein. Nonetheless, as the story reaches the end, the lions successfully kill the bear, but the U. S. army shot all of the lions. The authors are trying to betoken the idea of how the civilians play the most importan t role during the war. Millions of lives are wooly-minded because of the war, and most of them are innocent civilians.