Response 5: Creative

Azel Kahan                                                                                                     5/16/15

Middlesex Blog 5: Creative response

I chose the quote from page 438, when Calliope writes her letter of farewell to her parents before running away: “Despite its content, I signed this declaration to my parents: ‘Callie.’ It was the last time I was ever their daughter.” I used this quote as an inspiration to create a small comic that was based on the chapter ‘Looking myself up in Webster’s’; since I believed that this is one of the most significant passages in the book. Callie crosses the threshold from being a daughter to a son, after discovering a shocking truth about her own body, which is the moment the reader has been anticipating since Cal as the narrator begins his autobiography.