https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg en-us 2018-10-12 00:37:47 UTC 2018-10-22 21:08:26 UTC hello@padlet.com jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292645692 2018-10-15 03:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292645692 jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646153 2018-10-15 03:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646153 jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646191 2018-10-15 03:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646191 jhorcasi https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646594 2018-10-15 03:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/292646594 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293061477 -futuristic London after nuclear-war
-Voice of Fate (think fat talking, appear human. the gov't is the one actually controlling and watching everyone)
-Finger men
-Evey (trying to solicit men for sex)
-V rescues her, blows up parliament
-Radio station plans a cover-up story
-Shadow Gallery
Themes: anarchy, anti-government, revenge; graphic novel concepts: she is always sad/scared up until she goes to shadow gallery and is smiling; 
Juxtaposition of V and Evey in the first few pages. ]]> 2018-10-15 20:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293061477 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293063476 -V stops the train, to take Prothero (who is the voice of fate)
-Mr. FInch main officer at the case, sees the first clue: rose
-Evey tells her story about being in the war/family; the war led to bad weather (even though not bombed). 
-Political party Norsefire: took away anyone who was gay, person of color
Theme: sexism, all gov't officials are men; women force into prostitution (28); theme of revenge - resettlement camps in Larkill; graphic concepts: panels with the characters in the foreground, close up (27); graphic weight (27-28) Evey's memories with light-colored pastels and changes to dark and muddy after her mom dies. ]]> 2018-10-15 20:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293063476 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293065125 -V has destroyed house of parliament. Destroyed some credibility of the Master and they realize this isn't a conventional terrorist (psychopath)
-Shadow Gallery: appreciation of V from Evey, contradicts earlier stereotypes of him as psychopath
-Cynically: "you and me against the world"
-Vaudeville: related to a type of entertainment of burlesque, comedy, acts and dancing. Shows his personality of satirical exaggerated comedy. And connects to his mental state. 
-Prothero is in simulation of Larkhill in the Shadow Gallery
-Prothero questioning reality itself
-V takes him around the settlement camp and Prothero denies his involvement there. Prothero is hiding something about Larkhill. 
-Prisoners - all of Prothero's dolls - why Prothero's dolls? He wants to resimulate what is happening and then "break" him and destroy the voice of fate. 
-Shows Prothero the five rooms, marked by Roman numerals
-Burns his dolls, he throws him out, and all he can say is "mama" ]]> 2018-10-15 20:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293065125 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293068409 -Conversation with Lady Justice, non-reciprocated love, search for anarchy instead
-He blows up Lady Justice
-Evey wants to make a deal with V, to help with his next project
-After the sermon, Helen likes Derek, he likes her and not his wife, Rosemary. Anthony Lilliman has a lust for children when Evey comes to his room
-Theme: freedom (41) - anarchy has taught me more. acts of terrorism/revenge: bring down the government; graphic concepts: face/hand positioning of the bishop (47) zoom in on his face and makes you uncomfortable. ]]> 2018-10-15 20:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293068409 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293070244 -Evey and Bishop talking. He is creepy and Evey is uncomfortable. She gestures to opening the window (to let V come in). 
-She stalls so V can come in and do what he needs to do. 
-Darker panels foreshadowing V going to attack
-Evey asks him to read from the bible; V fights off the guard. Ironic because gov't is protecting this bishop who is pedophile; but he has power and preaches to others about good and bad/ethics/morals. 
-Go to the crime scene
-for titles there is no frame for it
-V leaves his mark at the crime scene and find out the little girl was probably working with V; then they go over the tape recorder that V leaves there. "I am the devil and I come to do the devil's work" - (60)]]> 2018-10-15 21:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293070244 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293071829 -V offers the chance to take communion from him which is filled with cyanide
-Begin talking about the violet carson flower - this clue that is always left
-Power of symbols/freedom: V kills his enemy and puts roses on their dead bodies. For V, killing is "creative destruction" and "justce" through the symbol of the flower. 
-(64) goes to V's room and she feels guilty for being an accomplice in this murder
-Derek Almond working on the case and Rosemary looks for affection
-V reading a bedtime story to Evey (like a child) and uses this as graphic weight, color got very dark. When it comes to scenes of him killing it becomes even darker]]> 2018-10-15 21:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293071829 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293077500 -Mr. Almond puts gun to wife - not a loaded gun
-Dominic/Finch see all of those at Larkhill who have been killed - realize Delia is the next victim
-Delia talking about what was done at Larkhill (torturing others just because someone told them to)
-V injects Delia with poison while she was sleeping. 
-reading Delia's diary
-Theme: depression (71) Almond is an alcoholic; regret that Delia has for the experiments at Larkhill; graphic novel concepts: background 70, 71; 72; hands and feet (79)
-asks to see his face "it's beautiful"; face of rebellion, talking about how she agrees what she is doing. Trying to get over this past. 
-juxtoposition with Rosemary and Delia (hard to tell the difference)]]> 2018-10-15 21:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293077500 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293079497 -last part of book 1, flashback of Delia and her time at Larkhill. 
-How she came across V, even though we do not know who he is. 
-In the flashbacks from her diary that Finch is reading; she did hormonal research and used the prisoners there for research
-Patient in room 5 who was fascinating to her, she called him "ugly" "crazy"
-Secretly plotting an escape plan, bombing the whole camp = leads to creation of V
-Subtlety of the number 5; shot from batch 5; significance of room 5; 
-Saws V face and calls it beautiful and on page 81, talks about how ugly his face is
-Patient in room 5 can grow the roses even while in this camp.
-Theme possibly: mental illness (81) - schizophrenic
-V is not just a killer, sense of why he acts this way and why his murders are odd; 
-Key graphic concepts: orange for explosion and V emerging from the fire; captions for this whole section was primarily just narration - Finch reading from Delia's diary. 

]]> 2018-10-15 21:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293079497 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293081379 -Prelude is the musical of the "vicious cabaret" each panel there are specific lyrics that were related. Pg. 91 - theme of fatherhood, Evey is seeking the father figure in V. Also on this page the theme of tragedy, relates to both of the scenes both have had the families torn a part. 
-V spending more time with Evey and doing magic tricks and dancing. She asks him why he doesn't "fancy her." 
-pg. 97 surprise of her questioning about whether V is her father is or not
-He blindfolds her as part of the surprise he says he has for her and repeats old conversations they had. -then Evey's speech balloons on 98 are distinguished from V's. 
-She pulls on his cloak and shows it was a fake and it was just a tape recorder. "Your father is dead"

]]> 2018-10-15 21:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293081379 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293082961 -Focus on Rosemary at Derek's funeral.
-Theme of inner-struggle and sexism. Shows some racism or prejudice in society.
-pg. 101 exemplifies inner-struggle: her twisted love for Derek. 
-pg. 104: lack of opportunities for women; listing of financial responsibility and why she chooses to go on a date with Roger Dascombe. Prostitution seen as only option for women. 
-theme of sexism also shown on 107 - they are watching a TV show that is sexualized white woman; and then also racism when they refer to a black villain. All the guards/men throughout the story and women shown the same as white, light hair, etc. This appears to be the beauty standard of society. 
-Rosemary justifies going with Roger to make money; 
V - his inner struggle by destroying the propaganda (105);
-Graphic novel concept: all inner dialogue that is used. Rosemary justifying her actions; ]]> 2018-10-15 21:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293082961 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293084612 -Bubbles are from the dialogue on TV
-pg. 112 close up on V's face, convey he has an important message for the public. 
-He talks about all of the bad that humanity has done and if they don't change (people are seen as part of a company) - he will "fire" them or kill them. 
-In the background you see the war, the violence, bombs, etc. that has happened throughout history. 
-He allows himself to be captured on 117
-wants people to acknowledge their faults and gives them 2 years to fix it. 
-Theme: opening the eyes of society, revealing the truth
-Concepts: text bubbles were different from the rest of the book, emphasizing his words; ]]> 2018-10-15 22:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293084612 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293085980 -Shift the scene to Mr. Finch walking on the beach and thinking about something he had done. Then it goes to a flashback
-Peter Creedy replaces Almond at the Finger. They unmasked V on the floor and it was Dascombe behind the mask. Finch punches Creedy - and alludes the affair Finch had with Delia and it ends there with the flashback
-Instead of being fired, he is sent on vacation (wonders who knew about Delia and him) and questions what she did at Larkhill
-Then shifts to character Gordon who is with Evey. 
-next chapter 6 they are at bar, club and sitting and talking with Gordon. She is drunk and thinks she likes Gordon. Knows he is a gangster and can protect her. Two men in her life (Gordon, V, her father).
-Gordon overhears argument about this other man's grandmother who has to go to the gas chambers
-FIght breaks out and Evey takes her away. 
-Ends with V watching her
-Theme of reflection from Mr. Finch; ]]> 2018-10-15 22:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/293085980 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294090097 -Gordon running away; flashback of Evey and Gordon getting together, starting a relationship. 
-When she sees Gordon dead, she flashes back to her own memory of her mother dying
-Themes: loneliness/despair (137); abandonment
-Key graphic concepts: a lot of facial expression, graphic weight in the flashbacks. In the present, it is day time the colors are more vibrant, and when it's raunchy it's getting darker; ]]> 2018-10-17 20:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294090097 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294092463 -Evey has gun and wants revenge for the murder of Gordon
-141 - graphic weight is darker for the dark deed she is about to commit
-142 - you see the person who looks almost like a mask - maybe V?
-thinks of her birthday as a child, sees her father, then Gordon. Perhaps her subconscious. The fact that she is looking for someone to be her dad and provide her with this love. 
-Fear of V (146); 
-wakes up in a prison cell; he takes the poster from 105 and puts it in her cell (simulate the same background, feeling, etc.). 
-wakes up she is hopeful that maybe her parents are alive - faces reality at the end. ]]> 2018-10-17 20:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294092463 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294094865 -Evey in the prison cell and is taken to the interrogation room. Sees film of her on the bridge last November
-They examine her, shave her head, goes to the cell and starts reading the letter. Learns it was written by someone named Valerie.
-imagining Valerie's life and what she was experiencing during that time. 
-What life could have been like for Valerie. 
-Valerie grew up in England, was Lesbian, moved to London with her. How her parents disown her, meets Ruth while working on Salt Flats movie. 
-Themes: loyalty; intergrity - staying with Ruth no matter what
-graphic weight (159) interrogation; contrast with the flashbacks of Valerie's happier life

]]> 2018-10-17 20:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294094865 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294097630 -Evey spoken to and given a choice to please guilty. 
-Take her back to chemical shed to kill her ; then she is told she is free
-she goes outside and sees everything was fake, and sees it was a lie or "sick truth" 
-goes into a mental breakdown after she sees V and realizes what he has done
-Theme: propaganda poster, connects to page 169: all born in some sort of prison (her lover). happiness is a poster within yourself. When she is with the officers, "face your monsters one day - real or not"; 
-graphic novel concepts: facial expressions, looks sickly about to die, a zombie/ghoul; 
-Pg. 166 "welcome home" back into the shadow gallery 
-Shocked of seeing V and what he represents and the truth of what is happening]]> 2018-10-17 20:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294097630 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294101351 -Freedom and anarchy (170); Evey is trying to escape from Shadow Gallery.
-Radicalism vs. progressive (V is radical; Gordon was a progressive, he saw some problems but still wanted to survive within that oppressive system). 
-Gordon is a prisoner 
-170: emotional pain, agony, reverts almost to a child
-V tells her to keep releasing her emotions to be completely free. Lack of blindfolds - not blindfolded by need for happiness, see what real freedom is. 
-End of chapter: free and struggling then naive and happy. 167-172: graphic weight blue on page 172; then on 173: sense of revenge, where V's work is not done at all - preparing for a finale. 
-V at the piano and Evey kisses him and thanking him for freeing her 
-Theme: acceptance
_Learns that Valerie was real
-Rosemary still in a cage, while Evey is free - she has turned to men for comfort and help.
176: V shows her the roses in honor of Valerie; that he will avenge Harper if she wants - but she wants to let it grow. Being free means she does not have to follow V's rule and is merciful to Harper. 
-"Let it grow" and "let it go" perhaps save for a more important victim? He is no longer her father figure
-Will give the world what Valerie wanted: roses. 
-Evey now a woman. ]]> 2018-10-17 20:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294101351 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294103928 -Mr. Ethridge and Dominic talking about Mr. Finch. Depressed about V -Evey cleaning up unnecessary things and she thinks something is happening with V.
-Foreshadowing: "the ending is near, it is already written." (183) - possibly the final action is coming up. 
-The Master does not feel feared or respected. 
-185 - V blows up the building and kills Ethridge
-Theme: freedom from privacy/communication; bombing meant to shift history. V seen as a hero for those suffering from oppression but it is through violence and chaos. 
-187: satire of giving back freedom of thought, expression, etc. 
"the land of do as you please"
-Young girl can express herself "Bollocks" and go to the Master who was manipulated by the machine. "England Prevails." 
-Graphic concepts: background and graphic weight. ]]> 2018-10-17 21:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/294103928 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295684429 -The Master is trying to think of how to maintain control
-Riots happening; soldiers walking around and trying to maintain control 
-Rosemary goes to buy a gun
-Mr. Creedy makes a deal with gang members
-Helen - complaining about her Mr. Creedy
-Dominic trying to get in touch with Mr. Finch
Social commentary: 196 the leader is getting pleasure from seeing the riots outside
graphic novel concepts: faces (190) - he has no emotion for the deaths happening; graphic weight on 191 - the panels are all of the same, always like a film strip



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-V and Evy enter into a room, and at the bottom of 201 he is in front of screens
-See Dominic and reading over a tip that V sent to them in the form of a poem. V is talking about how a symbol of hope was tarnished/corrupted
-Setting up a domino game (metaphor)
-Rosemary meets with one of the gangsters that Dominic that he recruited to help control the crowd; 
-You see a strange shot (sexist) on page 205
-Mr. Finch goes to Larkhill to contemplate what happened to V
V continues to set up the dominoes while the police is investigating and he is sending cryptic clues. 
209-10 - found out V was controlling their computer system to send his messages to the masses. 
-208 see a completed domino set
-The domino reference of wooden soldiers going down (208)

]]> 2018-10-22 20:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295686911 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295689252 -Mr. Finch goes to Larkhill to see from the perspective of V's eyes by taking LSD
-The illustrator experimented with psychedelics himself

-He starts hallucinating immediately and tries to reminds himself it is just a drug. 
-212 questions his own identity - imagines himself as a prisoner (trapped in a job that disturbs me...I'm so alone). Regret for what he has been doing and confused about his role
-He sees his friends (his gay friends, other people of color, etc.) he looks happy and apologizes and then they disappear
-213: feeling sorry for those in his past that are lost now and could not be saved
-Delia has needle (drug) to administer; also refer to Lilliman (the bishop) 


-215 a lot of graphic weight especially when he is thinking about "my prison"
-Similar escape/fire of V, Finch has the same realization and freedom and takes off his clothes
-He starts saying a lot of words with "V." 
-The way, the truth, the life - French

-216 - dawn of a new day, a lot of graphic weight
-V and Evey in the shadow gallery and they are talking about how he has things in order and he is happy about the chaos. Evey is getting irritated. 
-"knowledge is like air and I am teaching you how to breathe" mentoring her; shows her all the rooms he has never showed her before; TVs; Roses

]]> 2018-10-22 20:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295689252 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295692114 V is showing her rooms she hasn't been to
-Asks if has a rose for Susan. He says he does. He takes her to the train station where he has lilies and brings ammunition with her.
-This shows the theme of anarchy and freedom
-Turning point: start of a new chapter, alluding to his death and how Evey will continue the fight
-Helen treating her husband badly saying he will never be a good leader
-Rosemary has her gun and is getting ready and then Helen cheating on her husband and V is watching what is going on. 
-229: saying he forgives the system
-230: Finch trying to think like V and sees the shadow of the V and sees Victoria station
-graphic novel concepts - graphic weight, faces/feet/hands. ]]> 2018-10-22 20:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295692114 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295694602 -Finch walking through the abandoned Victoria station

-He sees the train with flowers that V showed Evey. 
-The leader personifying the fake computer as a God, betrayed because it stopped working. 
-Mr. Finch hears music and sees V. 
-Then it goes back to the leaders and Rosemary who takes revenge and justifies her actions in her mind "Yes because" repition and saying "yes" then pointing the gun and shoots the leader. 
-Then goes with Mr. Finch and V
-236 - image of V is enough, the idea of what he represents will live on "ideas are bulletproof" 
-Everyone is trying to figure out why Rosemary killed the leader, then Finch comes in to say V is dead
-238-blood throughout the shadow gallery
-240: Finch withholding important information

-Graphic weight and juxtaposition between color (230/231) - light/dark and eeriness/coldness

]]> 2018-10-22 20:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295694602 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295696632 -Conrad sees the tape left behind by V; he is shocked that she had been cheating on him/on video
-Ally resembles more of V's mask 
-Ally threatens the radio man with a razor blade and they kill Ben. 
242-43: message over the intercom is on every single page and as the panels progressed it followed the situation and Ben being murdered. Foreshadow that V is not dead as the speakers claim

-V goes back and is morally wounded and Evey finds him dying. 

-Square speaking boxes: revisiting an old conversation - he is going to die. 
-Evey comes to a realization on 246 - and the past conversation comes up again. She puts the pieces together to think about the significance of what he talked about; 
-248-49: goes back and takes off mask for body and it was not V; keeps revealing a different person of the mask every time. 
-Evey finally understands V's intentions and did not matter if he died
Theme: fate - it cannot be altered; V's influence on London has lived on in his message and now through Evey. Now her role is activated. 

-Theme: someone can be killed as a martyr and their ideas can live on in others. 
-Graphic weight: 244-250 blend of yellow, blue and bring together a green color. Blue - sadness/thinking; yellow - happiness/life and represents Evey and her mixed emotion of sadness and a sense of joy realizing that she is comprehending V's actual identity. ]]> 2018-10-22 20:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295696632 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295700185 -the country is falling a part, riots happening
-Everyone expressing their feelings toward the government
-]]> 2018-10-22 20:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295700185 https://padlet.com/jhorcasi/dzr4vmhsaoeg/wish/295701657
-Viking funeral 
-Evey is insistent on taking the new face of V
-264: Helen tries to talk to Finch to salvage what is left
-Mr. Finch refused her
-265- last panel emphasizes his decision, dark graphic weight. In the end, pushing to be free from catastrophe and disorder
-Theme: freedom; freedom from oppression/anarchy and in the end they were just pushing to be free from V from disaster. 

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