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Chapter 1 Watchmen
Chapter 1 Watchmen
Chapter 1 Watchmen
2. What is the time in the watch displayed this chapter? And in the upcoming chapters? Can
you establish a relationship between the time and the chapters?
4- Study the splash page in chapter I. What is the mood of this image? Why?
Anxiety blood. Smile reminds a clock (circle) and the hands of the clock.
Smile for happiness and red stands for blood. Irony in the hold story
5. You read an entry for Rorschach’s journal on page 1. What is the tone of his writing?
6. Write down what the sign says in panel three. What does this mean? How do these words
contribute to the mood of the opening?
7. In what ways do the pictures support the words? What is the effect of this juxtaposition?
The more you go out you are actually now how the camera zoom out.
8. Find an example on these pages where the image greatly supports the caption. Write down
the page and panel number, and its effect on you.
An image in the past (is a flashback) but you are reading what is happen in the present. Una
imagen del pasado, pero pasando en el presente.
Page 3 panel 7
10. Page 6, panel 1: Rorschach enters the scene. How is Rorschach framed? What is the effect
of this framing?
In control of his body posture but similar to posture in page 3 panel 7. Colours very different.
He looks powerful and heroic, it seems to can solve the situation
Melancholy, sadness. He is a superhero the Second Night Owl. He is at home, the costume is
empty, but inside the costume there is no hero. The hero is sit. He is nothing now. He has the
smile, but he is sad, it is ironic.
13. Pages 16-17: Study the colour shift from these pages. What might the different colors
symbolize?
2 different moods. Emotions are linked with colours. Open spaces related with rationality,
Only see the nails that are red. It ends up in a different mood. Techniques open and close the
chapter. Technique and final sentence result in the beginning of the chapter (same image).
15. Bob Dylan’s song: how does the song frame chapter I.
Roserach, The Comidian, Adrian Bete, Lerey, Dr. Manhattan and two night Owls, (only
mentioned, Lorey’s mother, the MInutemen) THe only one that appears in both group the
Watchmen and the MInutemen, is the Comedian)
A lot of info in images, that we do not pay atención while readinng the book.