Qs for Passionate Journey (Mein Stundenbuch)

by Frans Masereel (1889-1972)

Note: the photocopy book the students have has 6 squares per page, with the exception of the first page, which has 5.

For each question, provide detailed answers with references to specific pictures. As always, grammar and proper spelling count.

1. What happens in the first two pages?

2. How do pages three and four shape the man’s feeling about the city?

3. What kind of man do pages five through seven show the man to be?

4. How do pages eight and nice show the man’s changing relationship to the city?

5. What happens to change the man at the bottom of page ten and the top of page 11?

6. How does the man’s love affair on pages eleven through thirteen affect him?

7. What happens on pages fourteen and fifteen?

8. What does the man do on his travels on pages eighteen and nineteen?

9. What changes have taken place in the man as shown on pages twenty though twenty-three?

10. What are pages twenty-four and twenty-five trying to convey?

11. What crucial event happens on page twenty-six? Why is it surprising?

12. What happens in the end? What is the meaning of the last couple of pages?

13. Does this book suffer for a lack of words? Explain.

14. Define: novel (as a noun).

15. Is Passionate Journey a novel? Explain.

16. As a work of graphic art, how (and why) do you judge this work?