Daytripper is a graphic novel by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. It is about Bras de Oliva Domingos, an obituary writer living in Brazil and who dies at the end of every chapter. It is equally about life, death, and how they are incomplete without the other. Similarly Intro to Rhetoric and Narrative or ENC 1143 is about what a narrative is and how it is incomplete without questioning the meaning behind it. ENC 1143 asks students to question everything about a narrative. For example what does an author’s writing style mean or why does the order of a narrative matter? Daytripper allows students to ask these questions and more, and that is why it is a good choice for the course. Daytripper uses illustrations, a character that dies at the end of every chapter, and an obituary for every death to make the students of ENC 1143 think about the mechanics and concepts of a narrative, and more importantly, to question them.…show more content… This is interesting since Bras writes obituaries for his job and later in the book this is what launches Bras career as a novelist. So who writes the obituaries for Bras? With the exclusion of the ninth and tenth chapters, the obituaries’ author or authors are otherwise unknown. Does this relate back to the course in that the author of the story matters less than the story itself? If you can get your story out into the real world and have it connect to other people, be it a specific audience or not, does it matter who wrote the story? Or is it like the point Ba and Moon are showing, that like life and death are intertwined, the author and their story are the same. Daytripper starts with Bras writing obituaries. At the beginning of chapter seven when Bras is thirty-eight, he has become famous for his novel Silken Eyes. The reader sees that because his audience liked the book, they also feel as if they know him. (156-157)This is very Meta in that Ba and Moon must know what that feels like, being authors
