![]() ![]() ![]() A survivor of intense and violent political conflict in Vietnam, Bui’s father at first is presented as a negligent and apathetic absentee parent. Bui shares her personal experiences of her parents’ divorce and the distance she felt between herself and either parent. To answer the question of the color’s meaning, it’s most helpful to explore the text’s themes. The entire graphic novel uses varying degrees of this singular color, which begs the question of its symbolic meaning. The many illustrations in The Best We Could Do are colored using a single red-orange hue in the form of watercolors, along with black and white structural drawings to show definition. ![]() Thi Bui’s graphic novel The Best We Could Do incorporates curious motifs in art style and page formatting to aesthetically illustrate themes of her personal story as well as those of her parents’. ![]()
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