Summary Of We Are On Our Own By Miriam Katin

Hello, we are the AAS news. Here we have “We are on our own” by Miriam Katin, published in 2006. We are Efe, Quincy, and Lluis. First of all, Miriam Katin is an American author of Hungarian-Jewish descent. She is most notably known as a graphic novelist. The book was written in 2006, using a black and white pencil, accompanied by Katin’s childhood encounters. Katin was born in Budapest in 1942, during World War ll. Her dad was deployed to serve as a combat medic. Due to the attempt of the Nazis to segregate the Jews into Ghettos and to deport them to concentration and death camps, she and her mom fled the city. They escaped the city by dissimulating their mortalities and obtaining falsified identification papers. Not taking all of their possessions, they present themselves to the rural people as a working-class child and woman. Meanwhile, the Nazi soldiers were on their tracks.

Literary techniques and graphics-

Throughout the course of the book, the author mainly uses the stylistic techniques of coloration including some instances of flashbacks and flashforwards with
This is powerful because color represented the paradise and peace which took place in New York in 1968. This was done to showcase the time when the American dream and liberty prospered, contrary to the sadness created by the Nazis, by incorporating the Nazi flag on the previous page. On page 4, it can be observed how Lisa's mom is teaching her the Jewish version of the Bible in order to traditionalize her. This is significant due to the fact that while Lisa was in Hungary, she was devoted to Judaism and its principles. From page 83 to 84, the author incorporates a flashforward by applying a change in coloration. Here with her American husband, presumably of Christian faith, she realizes that she should teach her child Christian values, which she didn't grow up