Meeting Climate Changed

In Phillipe Squarzoni’s Climate Changed, the readers are welcomed to see the eyes through the narrator’s inquisitive mind. While reading the graphic novel, I felt like the narrator was guiding me through his mind, allowing to see his innermost thoughts. The novel was by no means polished. It was scattered, thoughts invading other thoughts, his memory reigning supreme. I love how the author introduced us to his writing style – by addressing the predicament presented by starting a graphic novel. We as the readers were gradually led into this form of literature, a form most of us find as an unfamiliar frontier. I enjoyed how the author presented the childhood home, by giving us directions as if we were to meet him there. We transcend into the narrator’s childhood, seeing what stands out to him the most. A reoccurring theme in his childhood is the great outdoors. The narrator can hardly recall his kitchen but can remember when and where his father is stung by a bee. The majority of his memories occur in the outdoors; as we learn the impact his childhood home had on his life, we can assume the effect the great outdoors have had on him. Abruptly, the reader finds out about a graphic novel the narrator has been working on for two years. From this we learn a great deal about or narrator – he is dedicated, hard working, diligent, and above all a perfectionist. This perfectionism stems from his idealism; we learn about this when he admits he wants to learn a great deal more about the environment before he addresses it in his novel. I enjoyed the political introduction to environmental awareness in France; I never knew all of that before and found it very interesting. When he purchases all of the books on the environment in the bookstore, we learn that the narrator is very curious, is a man of action (he admits he is ignorant on the subject and takes measures to change it), and is very intelligent. He mentions consumerism for the pretense of why he bought these books and then watching American blockbusters. I believe this consumerism will be discussed later on. We learn that we will watch the narrator explore this concept more. I am excited for this. I admit I am far from an expert on climate change. I would like to more. It will be amazing to see how an inquisitively curious mind learns and thinks about climate change. I am very much looking forward to reading more of this book.