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TIME in Literature�Sapiens-A Graphic History �

Book written by Yuval Noah Harari

Project realized by Maria Vela, Vlad Oprea and Maria Preja

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1. Book Summary

The world needs an explanation, a detailed story as to how things came to be and how the world became so vast and filled with diversity, amazing and complex beings. Luckily for us, Yuvan Noah Harari and his friends are here to help us better understand the world around us by presenting us their adventure, traveling through time and space in a beautifully illustrated way!

The famous author discovers the mysteries of evolution along with his crew consisting of his niece Zoe, the Fiction the heroine, biology professor Saraswati, Detective Lopez, Prehistorians Cindy and Bill, mister Adamski, early human ascensor Lucy, powerful storyteller, Armand Peugeot, and The Gay Netherlanders all here to help us understand what happened and how.

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2.Interesting Images And Characters From The Book

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3.Dr. Fiction

Dr.Fiction is a smart and strong heroine that shows up mid book to Yuval and his niece Zoe to explain to them the importance of fiction throughout history and how fascinating his power is.
Our heroine is a strong believer in the importance of knowing that sapiens are the only creatures who are capable of understanding the power of fiction and how to control and create it, which in the end gave us the possibility to become the most advanced species on earth.
With her magic goggles, Dr.Fiction can summon any image she wants resembling something that happened in the history of mankind or something imaginary created by it. With this power, she can teach Zoe and her uncle all there is to know about the importance of fiction and how detrimental it was for the humankind.
She's a powerful woman and an amazing heroine ready to teach us everything there is to know about the world.

"Sapiens rule over the world because they're the only animals capable of creating fictional stories and to believe in them."

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4.Zoe-character analysis

Zoe is a smart young girl ready to learn how her species came to be along with her uncle, Yuvan Noah Harari. She won't let anyone stand in her way as her confidence and curiosity can let her accomplish this.
Zoe accompanies her uncle throughout all his adventures, meeting as many friends as she can and holding up important questions that introduce other characters. As unimportant as some of her actions can be she's not just a simple side character, she's a special girl that helps us all to understand the essential.
She's an inspiring kid that does what any kid her age and everybody else should do every single day, ask questions.

"How do you figure out that two people belong in different species?"

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5. Last thoughts about the book

In the end, we liked this book, because it showed us the evolution of the humankind throughout time, which correlates with the theme that we were given.

The reason why we enjoyed reading this graphic novel is because it was written in a funny and colorful way with very likeable characters and beautifully drawn illustrations.

We encourage you to read this book because you will gain knowledge about our history as humans in a less dull manner,unlike the original version "Sapiens".