I wanted to analyze page 43 in WE3. This was the page I traced in class today and doing that activity made me think a lot more now that I’ve looked at it a second time. It shows Tinker the cat before she is made into the military weapon. She is much more passive and peaceful while she sleeps which juxtaposes how active and destructive she is after she is turned into a weapon. The background of the picture is also in her old home, a place WE3 are trying to get back to; the place Tinker does not think they have any more. The colors used are light pastel color that contrasts from the grey tones or bright images of blood that fill the other pages. It is still very detailed with so many patterns and textures in the striped blankets and rugs. It seems like a really homey place and no humans are around which she seems content with. There’s also only one piece of technology, the radio, which is off to the side that Tinker is not interacting with.
This scene does not fill up the whole page but has writing at the bottom. It looks like a child’s handwriting which creative typography and drawings of hearts and a cat face. This conveys that Tinker was loved and very much missed after she was lost. It also makes me wonder how Tinker was found by the military. Even though she was “last seen outside the Laundromat,” did they steal her for their experiment or did they get her only after she was lost?