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  • Essay / The Underground War in Gaza by Joe Sacco - 1530

    In our American society, newspapers are very important because they provide a lot of solid information about what is happening nationally and internationally. Newspapers are usually written to report conflict, peace, knowledge, loss and other cultural media. These articles can be written in different formats, for example in the form of several paragraphs, photos and comics; like the one that the New York Times newspaper published on July 6, 2003 by its journalist Joe Sacco, author of the comic strip “The Underground War in Gaza”. In his comic strip, he exposes the conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Sacco then illustrates the attacks taking place in the Palestinian territories, where the Israeli military attempts to maintain control under the guise of protecting Palestinians from the capers that occur in the underground tunnels. While Palestine fights to regain its freedom from Israel. In this article, I will report the different strategies used by Sacco in “The Underground War in Gaza” which communicates the perspectives of Palestinians and Israelis on this complex issue. I will then analyze each country's side, their use of protection, their living conditions and their gender portrait with symbolic statues presented throughout the transition of its comic. Sacco uses multiple strategies to capture the attention of its readers and report on communications from Palestine and Israel. It starts by using graphics, writing and substantive messages. Sacco uses graphics to express his knowledge about conflict with more than just words; he reports that Palestine is still at war, with the battle raging around Israeli army tunnels and bulldozers. Sacco adds that the Israeli army was established in the Palestinian territories and in the middle of paper...... those years. This includes logical explanations and graphics that show emotions, as well as a visual understanding of what is happening to Gaza's citizens and settlements. It also explains how each country protects its family and pride by using various techniques such as quoting the interviewee. Sacco then discusses the conditions in which both the soldier and the Palestinian citizens live. He describes the setting by adding various details in his drawings. Finally, the use of gender and their status symbol in the comic which also shows men and a woman demonstrates the power status between the two conflicting parties in "The Underground in Gaza" by the number of times the The author uses the genre in his comic strip. Works Cited Sacco, Joe. “The underground war in Gaza”. First Year Composition Reader 2013-2015. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 151-155. Print.