Week 5: Contract with God

During this week, I had read Eisenhower’s Contract with God. When reading this comic, I felt as if I was being pursued by a sad and dark Disney story. There were many aspects of this novel that showed symbolism in religion and life. The enticing part of this story that caught my attention was the character development. A man makes an agreement with God to be a good person. After the man’s adopted daughter dies, he blames God and states that God has broken the contract that was stated between the two. The man then, vandalizes the stone with the engraved contract and begins to transforms into a new character. At the beginning of the story, you really start to feel sorry for the man, but as the story goes, you realize that he is turning into an asshole, but it still pushes the story forward along with stronger visuals.

Aside from the story, each illustration in the comic was visually interesting and made the story more powerful. The main character cast harsh strong shadows throughout the comic story. Especially at moments when he was alone, the harsh shadows foreshadow the character that he is either about the transform in or become.  Other characters throughout the story were faceless which means that they are powerless in the situation or that they are hiding something and the progresses over the story.

One of the lessons that I had got out of this comic is that it doesn’t matter about your karma, or how good you have been to others, life goes on and we will all have to face traumatic problems no matter what our religion or beliefs are.