Summary Of Unforgotten's Paintings

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As a montage-filled book, Unforgotten’s pages are filled with stone-faced people, forgotten belongings and roughly sketched angels, which all seem disconnected and distant from one-another. This portrays the moral that angels are around us even when we don’t notice. For example, the line “no one can hear” emphasises the angel stood amongst people, but not seen. In the page for “resting where it can,” the angel has fallen, yet no one pays attention - the illustrations see them as all looking down into laps. Society will always have its issues, and not one single soul can fix them all; we need to be connected in order to end wars and give asylum seekers a safe haven. Sending them back doesn’t solve the problem at its source, instead it blocks

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