Pride of Baghdad

Saddam ibn Talal Hussein The Power is down Pride of Baghdad, drawn by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, tells a story of group of lions escaping from the zoo later the U. S. troops starts invading Baghdad. In order to show how cruel essences that the war brings, the authors try to portray serviceman by drawing the lions, the raise, and other animals. Due to its gorgeous drawing style and its concise dialogues, the novel wholly has 100 rapscallions but contains various meanings.In 2003, the Iraq war was triggered because of Husseins violent suppression on the people, who have their own governmental views, but also his possession of the large amount of illegal weapons. The novel not only presents the consequence of dictatorship, but also satirizes the interference of U. S. army because the public opinion says that the reason of U. S. involving the war is impure since no evidence has been found to prove that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. The main purpose of U. S. arm y invading is the oil resources in Iraq however, by coincidence, Hussein is on the reign, which causes the U.S. s excuse to invade. In this book, the authors stand at Bagdads civilians point of view to tell the story until they get shot by the U. S. army. More specifically, a bit scene amid the lions and the weather is not interpreted as the surface meaning but is created because the authors regard to embody that even though the civilians overthrown the author of Hussein, the U. S. army is the one who eventually takes over their government power and causes the war. The lions and the bear both represent the civilians and Saddam Hussein.Towards almost the end of the story, referring to a specific page, a bear who shows up trying to block the lions way to freedom says Dont get up(where the pages background is the huge bear standing up with Noor and Safa tone up). The authors purposely creates a lusus naturae black bear when the story almost reaches the end to show the power that Hussein holds during the his presidency. By looking at the expression on the bears face, readers can clearly see the anger finished its bloody eyes and sharp teeth with opening mouth.The shrewdest part of this graphic novel is its drawing style, utilise animals to portray humans. Throughout the idea of visual images, when readers first look at the bear, a sense of apprehension is emitted from its giant black body however, the lions, comparing the size with the bear, argon much weaker. The authors apply not only the visualized details, but also the literal ones in every single character. For instance, the names of the bear and the lions who is prisoned, Fajer and Rashid are both originated from Arabic language, which is also the official language in Iraq.Fajer means wicked and Rashid means justifiedly guided, which are opposite to each other however, the justice cant beat down the grievous since Fajer already kills Rashid. According to the previous page, the authors purposely us e special-effects lettering, a method of drawing attention to text of highlighting the words, on some of the words while the bear is speaking, PET, HIS, FAJER, and MAN(the page where the bear first shows up with only its eyes and mouth).The PET represents the weakness of the justice under Husseins dictatorship, and oppositely, the MAN of the house implies the formidable power that Hussein holds. In addition, in order to describe the struggle between good and evil, the authors use graphic weight to focus on the drawing of colors between the bear and lions, which are black and white.Even thought this particular page only contains one panel, it really embodies the representations between the civilians who are under suppressed and Saddam Hussein. Nonetheless, as the story reaches the end, the lions successfully kill the bear, but the U. S. army shot all of the lions. The authors are trying to indicate the idea of how the civilians play the most important fictitious character during th e war. Millions of lives are lost because of the war, and most of them are innocent civilians.