About your blogs

Hi, Kings in Disguise is a graphic novel which invites deep thinking.

I hope your blogs could focus on what Freddie had mentioned "New world". Please write from your characters' perspectives on:

1. What is your definition/understanding of this "New world"?
2. What do you think Freddie should do in this world?
3. Plan a future life for Freddie: where would he go and what he might experience later, etc.

Will you please post your first journal entry by the end of this Sunday (May 4)?
Creative ideas with sufficient evidence are especially welcome!

Have a wonderful day there :)

Yang ~

Do You Know?

• Historical Background of the book
  

The setting of the story: During the Great Depression (1929-1933)

What do you know about the Great Depression in America? What was the life like?
Please watch the following videos from Youtube:

1. "The Great Depression": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpKmfjf5tUk&feature=related
2. "The Great Depression documentary part 1 of 2": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABuIG7hsuk&feature=related
3. "Scenes from the Great Depression": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR2Buke5MQ&feature=related

What does it feel/look like being in depression?
Let's watch the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1L6r0Ebcg

• Cultural background --American Hobos

Who are Hobos and what do they do? What do you think about them?

Please watch the following video "Merle Haggard about Hoboing":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNoxjOt5_aw

What do those Hobo signs mean in this book?
Please check the following website:
http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosign.htm

I hope the above information would be of some help through your journey of reading "Kings in Disguise" :)

Good luck!

Welcome!

Hi, Dear all,

Welcome to this blog! Here we'll study together the graphic novel "Kings in Disguise" by James Vance, Dan Burr, and Alan Moore.

I would love you to post your journals here (Please be creative, from the perspectives of the characters of this book), and to share your experiences while interacting with each other in the Second Life (difficulties, puzzlement, excitement, etc.).

I hope this blog would be a home for cooperation, free expression of your true feelings and your deep thinking.