enjoyed life by throwing parties‚ playing card games‚ dancing‚ drinking alcohol‚ telling jokes‚ and listening to music. These events are to distract from the horror they face everyday. They also highlight happiness in difficult times. For example‚ Satrapi uses comic relief in “The Jewels” to balance out the severity of the women of Iran turning on one another with kidney beans and “flatulence” (92). The jokes the children make gives them a sense of childishness and innocence‚ which is quite different
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Persepolis‚ which was very interesting. For example‚ we noticed the way Marjane begins to lie to her parents as well as to the outside world. Or how she commonly as every teenager‚ tries to smoke a cigarette for the first time to rebel against her parents. However I think that the main thing we learnt during this interactive oral was that we all realized that it wasn’t a common teenage rebellion‚ in fact‚ every time Marjane rebelled against her parents as for example when she went against their
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The Culture Iceberg Theory‚ a theory that gives people a view of the most important part of a person‚ the inside. Just like an iceberg‚ people are on only able to see 1/7 of the iceberg (the top). The culture of a human acts strikingly similar‚ 1/7 of a human being gets seen by others. 6/7s under the water‚ the bottom of the iceberg displays the elements of who the person truly represents. Most people overlook the inside of a human being. They tend to make harsh judgements based off the outside of
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CHAPTER 1: IMAGE‚ POWER‚ AND POLITICS I. Content Summary Introduction “Looking is a social practice.” The authors begin Chapter 1 by reminding us that we do not “look” at anything without participating in a practice formed by a variety of factors‚ including the historical moment‚ social meaning‚ and intent of the creator. Practices of looking are also formed by power relationships; even the act of choosing to look or not to look is an act of power. We engage in the practices of looking every
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Persepolis‚ Satrapi offers a brief history of Iran before stating the following: “Since then‚ this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism‚ fanaticism‚ and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of my life in Iran‚ I know that this image is far from the truth. This is why writing Persepolis was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.” In what ways does Satrapi counter
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What if you were living happily minding your own self living life‚ and then suddenly‚ different roles were forced upon you‚ and in a short time span your whole world would be thrown upside down? Well that is a brief insight into what Marji’s life‚ as described in the graphic novel and autobiography‚ Persepolis. The book takes place in 1980 Iran. The story is about a young girl‚ Marji‚ coming of age. She is living during the Iranian revolution where she faces the struggles of oppression and life
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there were many sex secrets displayed on the table and was talked about and coincidentally they all have one idea in common and that a virgin woman is the accepted woman which leads to the woman who aren’t virgins anymore to consider embroidery. Satrapi vividly retells a secret about her grandmother’s friend‚ Nahid. Nahid’s parents chose a husband for her when she was barely 18. In the Iranian culture‚ this was how marriages were set in the past‚ they were arranged. The problem was that Nahid loved
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and how they illuminate an overall argument about Marjane’s life. 1. How has Marjane been educated through her experience by the end of the movie? Be sure to use examples from the book and cite pages and images that back up your argument‚ as well as examples from the movie. Feel free to compare instances from your own life to hers‚ as this may help frame your essay. 2. Compare the life changes Marjane goes through in the graphic novel with her time spent in Vienna and back in Iran in
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Introduction 1. Satrapi is trying to dispel the stereotypical image that all Iranians are fundamentalists‚ extremists‚ or terrorists. 2. The author’s two motives for writing the book are to dispel the stereotype and to honor the memory of those who fought for freedom and died. “The Veil” 1. The novel begins in 1979. 2. The two outcomes of the Islamic Revolutions were the shutting down of bilingual schools‚ and the girls had to wear veils. 3. The children dislike the veil; they don’t
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The Persians had originally worshipped many minor gods before the teaching of Zoroaster were adopted by Darius and the Xerxes. These minor gods were called Daevas. Darius and Xerxes had replaced the Daevas with Ahuramazda as the Persian god to worship. From the leadership of Darius and Xerxes‚ the Persian was Zoroastrian religion‚ this religion believed in rituals such as Lan-sacrifice which was cantered on making offering to a god or traditional cult. The Persepolis tablet gives evidence that these
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