the most important character because it is showing how he died and his feelings for his soon. It also showed how unprepared and unprofessional people were getting jobs‚ important ones‚ just by accepting the regime. The cigarette: in this chapter Marjane is getting to show how stubborn she can be. She started to smoke and to think that her mom is behaving as one of the dictator of the regime. She also got to skip class for the first time in her life. She did it because of her friends that are older
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Cited: Satrapi‚ Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New York: Pantheon‚ 2003. Print. Satrapi‚ Marjane. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. New York: Pantheon‚ 2004. Print. McCloud‚ Scott. Understanding Comics. Northampton‚ MA: Kitchen Sink‚ 1993. Print.
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beginning of the book‚ Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ I realized that the story is about more than just a country at war. The story is about a child with ideals. It is easy to stereotype someone of a different culture. I say this because it is the truth. It is much easier to allow yourself to believe a stereotype than it is to see every person as an individual. I should be ashamed to say that I have viewed Iran as a “country of fundamentalism and terrorism.” Satrapi challenges this by portraying Marji
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we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her book Persepolis 1: The story of a childhood. In her second book Persepolis 2: The story of a return she continues
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Coco Chanel once said‚ “The most courageous act is to think for yourself‚ out loud!”. In the autobiographical graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ Marji does exactly that. Persepolis depicts Marji’s life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and how she finds herself and becomes more independent and rebellious by thinking for herself. Over several years‚ this novel follows Marji and the changes that she makes to gain her independence and how becoming independent means that she also becomes
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of age” is a popular term for stories about children becoming adults. They illustrate to the children reading them that their life could be worse and imparts “worldy wisdom” and morals to them in order to inspire them to grow up. The Shabat by Marjane Satrapi is not one of these stories. This story‚ told as graphic fiction‚ reflects a naive girl’s exposure to war and the detrimental effect it has on her life. Eventually‚ this story becomes about the death of Marji’s innocence. Her life transforms from
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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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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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ability to shape meaning‚ in order to reflect upon their attitudes towards the past. This interaction manifests in the examination of the conflicting strengths and limitations of history and memory throughout Mark Baker’s memoir The Fiftieth Gate and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis as both texts place emphasis on the inherent bias of acts of inclusion‚ emphasis and omission. Consequent of the inability to objectively capture definitive truth‚ all modes of representations of the past are unassailably
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Personal Troubles and Public Issues in Persepolis Marjane Satrapi’s novel Persepolis is an in depth look at Marjane’s child hood in Iran. Throughout the novel Marji faces many public issues which directly relate to her personal troubles. While Marji was growing up she witnessed the relinquishment of the Shah’s regime‚ The Islamic revolution and the Iraq v Iran war. Her novel covers an eight year span‚ from the ages six to fourteen. Even though the novel begins when Marji is only six years old she
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