The scene I have chosen is on page 42 and 43. In this scene Lenny disembarks the plane at the urging of military officers. After leaving the plane he is directed to the ‘security shed’, where he is told to wait with the other passengers. While waiting a tank rolls up and a soldier places a sign near the tank effectively barring anyone from actively recognising the existence of the tank.

The character’s reactions to the military presence at the airport struck me as particularly dystopian. Instead of surprise or anger, each American seems to feel genuine fear. The jock sat next to Lenny even raises his fingers to his lips, as if to suggest that Lenny would be fine as long as he doesn’t grab their attention.

I chose this image, as I feel it shows how even today airport security has the same militarised aspect to it. A genuine photo of people heading through security at an airport would have been too recognisable, and so we wouldn’t have noticed how totalitarian the scene seems to be. By showing this through Lego, we get a clear sense of how, like the jock, we just attempt to go through security quietly with our eyes averted so as to avoid falling under TSA’s scrutiny.