Home-Based Learning - Comic Strip

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Title : Black and White
Theme : Racism
Main Characters : 1 Negro and 1 White man

Plot : A Negro hears of an event giving freebies to everyone from a white man. He went to the place of event and finds that the queue is long. Hence, without hesitation, he went on to queue as he fears that the queue might grow longer and he would have to wait longer. However, what he did not realise is that he was queuing on the queue meant only for white people. There, a rude white man calls him a nigger and that he should be queuing at the queue meant for Negros like him

Props, Backgrounds, Characters and their Uses

First Scene
Background : Street
Explanation : This is where the 2 man meets together and the Negro gets informed of the event
Character : White man and Black man
Explanation : This is used as a introduction of the conflict (wrong queue) for later scene.

Second Scene
Background : A blank screen.
Explanation : The black screen which is white, is used to contrast with the black man's skin colour. This is used to show that the black man is in the wrong place, as it is mainly for the white people.
Character : Queue made up of white people
Explanation: Again, it is used to bring out the fact that the black man is in the wrong queue and that he is the odd-one out.

Final Scene
Background : Open Space
Explanation : Use to portray that the number of people queuing up for the freebies is a lot.
Character : Black queue and White Queue
Explanation : Used to bring out the racism within by separating the two different colour groups away.
Items : "Black and White" banners
Explanation : Again, it is used to bring out the racism by showing that the "Blacks" belong here or the "whites" belong there.
Items : Boxes and long queue
Explanation : Notice that the "White" section have a lot of boxes (freebies) piled up although not many people are queuing up for it. However, at the "Blacks" section, there is only 1 box of freebies when there are so many people Negros queuing up. This is used to show that the freebies are mainly for the white people and not the blacks. Hence, this is used to show that the Blacks are mainly discriminated and that they are not seen with proper dignity as the number of freebies for them is significantly lesser than those for the Whites.