"Look Out, The Saints Are Coming Through," a piece created by Lea Carpenter presents some heavy-hitting themes in its text. Its interesting to think about how complicated empathy can be and question whether or not our sympathies should or even could truly be our driving force in our relationships with other people.
It was a little difficult to connect with the story, I'm not much too familiar with Bob Dylan's music and haven't had any experience either being in military or having family being in military. Lies, however are something I'm familiar with, or perhaps more accurate would be the feeling of not wanting to know or face what you think to be the truth. Perhaps we realize that terrible and unsavory events have a ripple effect to them, and we fight against that.
If I were to adapt this story into another medium, I would probably convert it to a graphic novel so that I can maintain the non-chronological nature of the piece without making it too uncomfortable or confusing. I would probably use a simplified style of caricature and oscillate between periods of narration and non-narration. I would probably break the frame a lot to maintain the more storytelling reminiscent feel of the story.
