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Jojo as a model of perfection
So, who is Jojo talking to?
Yes-No
What do the pictures say?
In the book School, what do you think Jojo is most afraid of?
No, it is not the completely bare classroom, with only blackboards on the walls and no coloured pictures. It is not the white desks with chairs that have pointy bars, or the windows that you can't see through…
Not even the clock that shows us that school will start soon….
Is it the principal with his bushy moustache and his watch that seems to be ringing?
Or the schoolteacher who has colourful E E E E E Es coming out her mouth?
Ginette Anfousse once said that, when a person was not nice to her, she drew them in her books to get revenge. The lady who was the model for the schoolteacher is one of those people. Ginette drew her with a strange, weak chin, puffy cheeks and hair like a hat. Even her right shoulder is larger than her left one. Looking at a person like that, we can guess that she has long, pointy nails and she probably walks by stomping her heels on the floor… It is easier to imagine when we don't see everything!
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ACTIVITY-GAME
In a notebook, draw people who make you angry and then close your book. You have turned them into real paper prisoners. What a good idea!
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ACTIVITY-GAME
Another good idea would be to act out the story of School with your friends. Maybe when Ginette Anfousse drew Jojo and Pichou she was imagining a play! Most of the time, characters who play on stage also speak to the audience. In the book, Jojo and Pichou are almost always turned towards you, even when Jojo speaks to her anteater. And the window curtains could be used as theatre curtains…
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