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Article: The Face of the Other

I was looking at random stuff about manga and while i was looking ,one particular article caught my interest. The name of the article is "The Face of the Other" by:Matt Thorn. It was written to answer a question that many people were asking about Manga. The question was :“Why do all the characters look Caucasian?”

(The article: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html )

Summary:In the article it said that people were asking why do all manga characters look Caucasian. The writer of this article had asked people if they really thought that the characters really do look caucasia, and their only answer was that they look more caucasian then asian. Matt Thorn was trying to explain to people that even if the manga character has straight hair or round eyes they're not actually caucasian. Matt Thorn also said that japanese people aren't actually trying to make the characters' look caucasian, its just how the characters look. AND if they were making a character caucasin, the manga artist would make their clothing different, their names and their customs.

Opinion: I don't really know why some people think that Manga characters' look caucasian , i mean,i know when i see a caucasan character in a Manga because they look different than the regular japanese characters' .But maybe i only think that because im just use to seeing japanese characters and not caucasian characters in mangas'.Just because a character has different colored hair from everybody else doesn't really mean that are from a different place or nationality. The japanese character could have dyed their hair or they could have a japanese parent and a parent from another country , or the artist just wanted to make that character unique.

Prompt:How does the author of this article use language to evoke images and feelings in the reader?

I think that the author tries to evoke images in your mind by writing what he really thinks about the issue. He explains how a character would look if they came from a different country in the Manga or if they just looked different from everybody else. While i was reading i could really see what he was explaining in his article.