Emily Blog Post 5- Time, Motion, and Emotion

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Blog post 5

Directions: In no less than 150 words, choose one Peanuts comic strip from the archives listed on the link below and explain how Charles Shultz uses time, motion, and emotion in that strip.In this particular Peanuts comic strip I felt that Charles Shultz conveyed perfectly the techniques of time, motion and emotion. The use of time within this comic I felt was maybe the hardest to see. Also I thought that Charles used an atypical method in doing so. For example the first three panels were depicting snoopy in three different stages. The first panel creates the situation of him on his way home from somewhere, which Charles has at this point still left a mystery to the viewers. It is evident that it is late at night because the background display is black with the moon starting to sink. I personally gathered from this panel that it was most likely anywhere from three to five O’ clock in the morning. The second panel seems to just summarize the transition of time with in snoopy’s internal thoughts thus creating a time line from the point of walking home to the point in time where he is in the second panel which is not clear to the reader. Next, in the third panel snoopy is seen about to pass out on his house from the nights events. In the last panel, it is hard to really make out what exactly Charles is trying to convey, but it looks to me like the fourth panel is depicting Woodstock’s house party. Based on the previous panels the readers know it had to have taken place prior to the first 3 panels. In turn this supports Charles use of an atypical time line. Motion on the other hand is only visible in panels one, two, and four. While emotion is see mainly in panels one, three, and four. Based on the carefully drawn image of snoopy you can see the little details of his facial expressions in the first panel. Also it is clear that he is walking which conveys the element of motion. In the second panel I felt as though this exhibited the best representation of motion and emotion together. It looks as though he is about to be sick, he is swaying back and forth tongue sticking out, and eyes googly stating “what a night.” In the very last panel it looks as though Woodstock’s house was a wreck from the party he had that night, based on the drawing it is evident that there had been a lot of motion with in his house due to the events of the night.