Stiches was a very adventurous, yet emotional book that kept me hooked the entire time.  But one aspect of the book that kept me the most interested throughout the book, was the authors use of graphics to describe emotion in the story.  To me the graphics told a better story than the words themselves.  Not only did the pictures help describe a characters emotion, but I would much rather look over pictures then read words, which is another reason I believe the booked kept me hooked.  

All throughout the story there were pages that did not have words, and the pictures did the explaining.
The excessive amounts of graphics used in the story, allowed me to see mood changes and emotions of
each character, which in the long run helped me figure out the characteristics of each person.  For example, you can tell the mother has a lot of anger built up through the whole story just because of her facial expressions.  Another example would be the fathers facial expressions, and also his actions.  Throughout the whole book, he does not show much expression, and he smokes tabacco non stop, which you dont find out until the end of the book that he feels guilty for giving David cancer.

Not only do the pictures tell a story about every character, they also do a lot of explaining of whats going on and the setting.  For example when the therapist tells David his mother does not love him, the book goes into eleven pages of nothing but graphics and it is all to show how much David cried.  The book had a couple of other long strands of graphics to explain the story in greater detail.  Pretty mush, without all of the pictures in the book, it would be much harder to comprehend.