Karly Simmons Written Communications I Dr. Fuqua 14 September 2013 Persepolis One might only image the misfortune of growing up during a time and in a place plagued by war. The conflict resulting from this war not only affects the government‚ but also life a home for many. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ brings to light the negative effect of social statuses in Tehran‚ Iran. Social statuses change throughout the book and people in Tehran find their world flipped upside down as the invisible
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Alicia Rivas Anderson English 1101 5 October 2011 5 Claims Revised and Developed 1) When Marji was inventing torture games‚ she was merely a product of the war environment. Marji lived in an environment surrounded by violence‚ anger‚ and most importantly war. She is a young girl and during school she invented a game where the loser would be punished with war punishments. Some of these punishments included the “mouth filled with garbage” method or the twisted arm method. While most
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After just completing the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ and also viewing the film adaptation I have come to an understanding about the life of a child growing up in the time of a war. Based on her own personal experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces us to the effects of cultural change through the eyes of a child. Persepolis‚ is a political‚ historical‚ and extremely personal account of a girl’s growth into maturity. Imperialism is a huge theme
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In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ Marjane experiences revolution at a young age and learns to express nationalism as she explores her religion and what it actually means to her. From a young age Marjane sought to be a prophet and conversated with God most every night‚ always staying close to her religion. This shows a clear representation of Islamic Religion in Persepolis. At least Marjane’s view on it. All throughout the book she bases thoughts and action off her religion always keeping it close
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I think we should give all types of aid. Immediate‚ developmental‚ and population control. Immediate aid should be given to feed the people to get them in a state of mind to be able to comprehend more complex things. If they are going to understand population control and developmental aid they need to be in a sound state of mind. I think developmental aid should be given‚ but it has to be a continued effort to develop the area. To teach them how to follow in our footsteps‚ we didn’t start out poor
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Knowledge is defined by the awareness gained by an experience or situation. In Persepolis‚ Marjane desperately wants to be seen as an educated individual and laughs along with her parents and grandmother about the joke the word “martyr” has become. She discusses her search for knowledge when she was a child in her caption saying “I realized
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Invisible Art Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art‚ by Scott McCloud‚ is a book composed in comic book form that explains the importance of comic books‚ and how they are written and why they are written the way they are. Right off the bat‚ McCloud relates to the reader by explaining the world of comic books through the actual art form. Through this art form‚ the reader will feel a sense of closure to the topics because the reader is experiencing the world of comics first-handedly. McCloud conveys
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Maria Anwar M. Phil Literature – 2nd Presentataion on “Persepolis as a postmodern fiction” What makes Persepolis a Postmodern Fiction? A mix of High art and popular culture: Marjane Satrapi’s ’’Persepolis’’ is the latest and one of the most palatable examples of a postmodern genre‚ an autobiographical novel in form of a comic-book which tells the history of Iran from Marjane’s point of view. Persepolis is a postmodern graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between popular culture and high art
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conveys a message that the time period was idyllic‚ similar to what people considered ancient Persepolis. Both of these time periods were considered to be filled with the greatest treasures and a time of happiness. Persepolis has many treasures such as Apadana Hall‚ Tachare palace‚ tombs of the kings‚ and inscriptions and artwork that the people here made throughout the empire. The people that lived in Persepolis were filled with joy because they were living in one of the richest cities and a place that
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