The Wall

This story is about the author, his birth during the cold war, and his love for drawing. He drew what he wanted at home but was not allowed to draw what he wanted at school. He found out there were things he wasn't told and he believed he was being brainwashed so he started to question. He played music and started to believe anything was possible until Russian tanks invaded and he didn't want to get in trouble for his dreams about America so he quit drawing. Eventually he continued to draw his dreams until he got his freedom when the wall fall and so did the Communist system.

The pictures tell a detailed story of the fall of communism. Actual photographs of the author's childhood are mixed with asides - drawings and paintings explain details of the Soviet system. The drawings are mostly realistic and use texture and hatching with a splash of color. The dream sequence pictures are very bright and colorful to differentiate between living under the Soviet system (black and white) and being free in the author's dream.

Sís, Peter. (2007). The Wall. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)