The Blue Bunnie's Symbology

The phrase “Don't judge a book by its cover.” has been used to not to make assumptions just by appearances. If you automatically judge someone just by their outer appearance you’ll never truly understand them. To start understanding someone the only way is to observe their inner self. This inner self defines everyone and can reveal someone who looks absolutely normal but is actual someone sinister. This is what the Blue Bunny in the graphical novel “Ice Haven” represents. The Blue Bunny, a released prisoner, is a incredibly rude bunny who tries to obtain personal desires but fails and ends up stealing and destroying the town. The Blue Bunny although radical actually represents most people in town through his actions and words. This is why the …show more content…
Charles is a very intelligent child but he yearns to share this intellect and longing with others, more specifically his step sister Violet. But it seems like he can only share this passion with George. Violet on the other hand only sees Charles as step brother and doesn't care for him so much so she doesn't give him any real respect. This cause Charles to become furious, this is strange for a child so young to yearn so much respect from another at a innocent age. But soon when Charles ask the question "Am I an insensitive coward or a inhuman beast?" He starts beating and choking George's stuff Blue Bunny. This was a answer to Charles' question the anger and frustration of not being able to gain the respect of Violet was personified as the violent Blue Bunny (Clowes 58). George's Bunny was a representation of Charles; something innocent and childish like a Bunny is full of hatred and spite a "inhuman beast" this is because the bunny is ignored by everyone because of his childish looks just like Charles (Clowes 58). This causes anger and conflict in not just a mental state but also in a physical state. Charles lost his innocences when he was unable to gain the respect of Violet so he starts becoming violent and starts beating the Bunny. He even acknowledge this lost of innocence when he commented on George behavior "poor George -so …show more content…
The major crime throughout the story was the kidnapping of Goldberg. It was subtly stated that the person who kidnapped Goldberg was Random Wilder. The reason why Wilder kidnapped Goldberg was because to gain recognition for his poems. Wilder throughout the comic always believe that his poetry was the best and deserve recognition for his poetry instead of Ida his next door neighbor however, his poetry is never recognized. He realized that "if the public had the chance to read my poems... How could they ever again find merit in the likes of Mrs.Wentz and her tiresome begonias." He felt like he needed to show the public how great his poems were so he took the chance to kidnap Goldberg and leave poems as random notes so they may be analyzed and publicized by the news (Clowes 17). This is just like the Blue Bunny he felt entitled to everything saying" It's all about me this time" showing that he felt entitle to whatever appeals to him whether it be attention or a job and when not recognized for their "talents" both commit large crimes (Clowes 60). The feeling entitled shouldn't make perform violent crimes but, attention and recognition does that to people. Wilder was obsessed of making his poems known even in a bad light, he wanted to be better than Ida. He felt that he deserved all the rewards and