What is your experience of the Israel-Palestinian conflict? Has Palestine made you review your views?

This question gets students rethinking their own experience with the conflict through the lens of the work. Sacco tries to put faces to names to personalize the Palestinian plight, and so question examines the success of that endeavor.

Do you believe Sacco handled the subject matter objectively?

This question gets students thinking about the nature of bias and prejudice present in any work. Sacco does his best to present a balanced account but he also has a distinctive viewpoint and message. Students should ask whether they think he portrayed events fairly.

Does the graphic novel medium enhance or detract from the journalism?

Palestine breaks many conventions of comic books by presenting a bleak non-fiction serious work often relegated to text media. Students should examine the pros and cons of comics and how...