In today’s class, we had the pleasure of looking at the graphic novel version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed learning about the palimpsest theory, which is based off effacing an original piece of writing in order to write new text over top. However, despite writing on top of the effaced manuscript, pieces of the previous text still remain. I found this concept to be especially interesting given the work we’ve done with not only A Christmas Carol, but also Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (which I am working on for my Capstone project),a and seeing how these texts have been rendered in several different ways over the years. Just as it was fascinating to see how different authors had interpreted Rossetti’s original text, I found it similarly interesting to see how A Christmas Carol had been rendered into the graphic format. Seeing how the artists had interpreted the original text into a heavily visual narrative is a reminder of how powerful image can be at conveying meaning and telling stories; it is also a testament to how these stories persist in our memories despite the years passed and the shifts that have occurred in Western culture.