Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Read the graphic novel “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” by Chris Ware and answer the following prompt:
On the evening that William Corrigan’s mother Mary Ann dies, he regales his son James with the story of how his own father Dr. J. Corrigan used the death of a former slave named Barney as an occasion to acquire a skeleton for his medical office. This evening is particularly memorable for young James because his father treats him with, relatively speaking, “warmth,” and the child treasures “the evening’s facsimile of familial affection.” In a two-paragraph response, explain how elements of the Barney story surface in the nineteenth-century narrative (that focuses on William and James) and in the late twentieth-century narrative (that centers on Jim and Jimmy). In what sense might this story provide an interpretive key for comprehending the novel?
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