Stitches :: I Was Six :: Frames

Parallels:

- On page 87, David is helping his grandma make his bed. In a single frame there is a picture of Jesus on the cross. David asks his Grandma what it means. It looks as though it is looking at David in the scene.

- On page 104, after David's grandma scolded his hands with water for not eating. He goes to his bed. In the dark room he notices the cross above his bed again and Jesus is looking right at him. They give this scene one whole frame on the page. In his imagination, he is being judged.

Question:

- Why are David's parents splitting up and taking one child each?

Journal:

- On page 96, David had just had his hands scolded by his grandmother. There are only three frames on the page. One big one on the top that takes up half the page and two others side by side right under the top frame. In the top frame, David is sitting alone in the bathroom curled up and crying. It is the biggest frame because it shows him at his most vulnerable and fragile state. The two bottom ones aren't as big because he is just reflecting on what had just happened. Frames in this book vary page to page. Some pages have a whole row of small frames and some have just one big frame. The author organizes it like this to really bring out the important parts of the story.