Friday 25th October “The Wine” Now that Iraq had bombed all the border towns‚ Tehran quickly became their main targets and bombers started to bomb our city. Luckily‚ in our building‚ we had a basement that we decided to turn into a shelter. As the Siren rang‚ everybody would run down to the basement. Mom took a cigarette out and lit it‚ and then dad angrily asked her to put it out. He was scared that the bombers would see a glow from the sky; I guess it was the fear of death‚ but then
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raised in the book are the division of society by class differences and the influences of Western culture. These two political issues are of particular importance because they greatly affected Satrapi’s childhood as well as her pathway to maturity. Persepolis deals with issues of class disparities and Satrapi displays a conflicted feeling towards the subject. One of the reasons the subject remains contradictory is that Satrapi shows her parents as very warm-hearted‚ but flawed and hypocritical people
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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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writing stories and sharing it with an audience‚ the writer is able to share his experience in the world. In other novels‚ however‚ the novelist may create a character to stand in for the audience as the character communicates his traumatic story. In Maus by Art Spiegelman‚ the traumatic experience is being told by Spiegelman’s father and Spiegelman creates himself as a character in the book to be a stand-in for
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Maus is a beautiful story about Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman telling his son Artie his life during the Holocaust. After Maus 1’s first release in 1980 and Maus 2’s release in 1991‚ the two books have gained a lot of fans and attention which makes me wonder why Maus has not been turned into an animated TV series. I think that Maus in animated episodes would help bring the books to life‚ it would be a really easy movie with promising results‚ and it can potentially help expand the Maus franchise
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The allegory used in Maus helps me to understand the Holocaust more. Portraying the Jews as mice‚ the Nazis as cats and the Poles as pigs‚ has made the story easier to follow and understand. On page 138 there is a clear example of the allegory used throughout the entire book. When Vladek and Anja try to hide they put on pig masks to disguise themselves. This shows how the use of animals is very clever‚ as the reader can tell straight away that they are actually Jewish pretending to be Polish. The
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It was a very interesting read of both the stories I have chosen. In this essay I have chosen to compare Art Spiegelman’s From Maus and Trifles by Susan Glaspell because even when they have many things differently‚ I have found some things in common. Their way of writing is different‚ they way they tell their story is different but their passion into the story and the concept of the stories I have found them to have something in common. It is safe to say that the way Spiegelman wrote this story
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Persepolis was a very insightful movie about the lives of Iranian people at a very important time in the country’s history. Two topics that stuck out to me the most were the effects of the war on the everyday lives of the citizens of Iran and secondly the not-so-patriarchal lifestyle of people at the household level. Once the revolution to bring down the Shah began‚ which was followed by the Iran-Iraq war‚ the lives of Iranians were never the same again. Before these events‚ Iran appeared to be
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E1H Maus and Life Is Beautiful Comparison The Holocaust was a persecution and murder of approximately sixmillion Jews by the German Nazi regime. The Nazis came to power in January of 1933. They believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior threats to their community. The Holocaust is a tragic event and has been portrayed in many books and movies as that but there are two particular tales of the Holocaust that illustrate it differently. Maus is graphic novel written by Art
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The Complete Maus is a compelling book written by Art Spiegelman. It was typically about a son who had interviewed his father‚ a lone survivor of the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman was the son of Vladek Spiegelman. He wrote this book because he wanted to know what his father’s life was like throughout the Holocaust‚ more about his mother Anna‚ and also‚ he felt very guilty that he was not alive until after the Holocaust had occurred. Throughout the book‚ readers will find images of the characters portrayed
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