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Jul 3, 2021 · El Deafo is the semi-autobiographical story of Cece Bell who, at age four, contracts meningitis and loses most of her hearing. The story follows Cece through the next five years as she tries to learn to live in a world of hearing-abled people who don’t necessarily understand her disability, and how it affects her life and her relationships.
El Deafo. 🏆 Winner 2024 Odyssey Award: Best Audiobook for Children. A graphic novel memoir about the author’s experiences of going to school in the 1970s wearing a huge hearing aid strapped to her chest. When she realises that the Phonic Ear enables her to hear her teacher not just in the classroom but anywhere in the school (including ...
- World Inside The Story
- Outside Narration of The Story
- Visual Elements
The world inside the story, sometimes called the intradiegetic level, is the one in which the narrator exists within the storyworld of a book. In El Deafo, the interior story is that of Cece, the author’s representation of her younger self, as a child from the moment she loses her hearing to her later elementary years. This level is depicted by the...
As the second level in graphic novel narration, the outside voice narrating her own story, the author, Bell, as extradiegetic narrator, focalizes the events transpiring through the images on the page (Horstkotte and Pedri, 2011). There are two versions of outside narration within El Deafo. The first is depicted in the yellow rectangular boxes posit...
The third narrative level inhabited by autography, according to Warhol (2011), is the visual elements. Being a graphic novel, readers do not solely read the text, but need to take in the visuals in order to complete their understanding of the narrative (Postema, 2007). McCloud (1993) argues the interaction between words, images, line, speech bubble...
- Sara Kersten
- sarakersten@unr.edu
- 2018
May 24, 2017 · El Deafo offers an insider’s perspective about how our actions help or hurt someone who experiences life with a disability. Discuss what Cece’s friends did that helped her and hurt her. Are her feelings different than anyone else’s?
Key learning points. El Deafo is a graphic novel memoir based on author Cece Bell's childhood. At the age of four, in 1974, Cece is diagnosed as deaf, following a bout of meningitis. The narrative follows her journey using a hearing aid and starting school.
The narrative focuses on two major problems: the first is how to cope with the cumbersome hearing aid she wears at school. Deafness is an invisible disability, but back in the 1980s, hearing aids were still bulky and conspicuous, and they made her visibly disabled.
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Oct 10, 2014 · Review by James Lovegrove. October 10 2014. Stay informed with free updates. Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Cece Bell’s graphic novel memoir of...
