Cece Bell shares her childhood in the reading, El Deafo. Throughout the comic we follow her from her first day of kindergarten all the way up to the fifth grade. The story transitions through the years by exercising creative setting details, which evoke time. An example of how Bell addresses this method is by the changing of seasons. The story starts off at the end of summer, before entering the first day of kindergarten. We follow Cece through her new school, which is designed to help her adapt to the loss of her hearing and then, “suddenly, summer is here again” (34). After a lonely summer in a new town, “summer ends. I find out that I will soon start first grade in a new school.” (38) These are just a few examples of how Bell alters the
