a. As portrayed in Persepolis‚ Marjane’s life in many ways is very different from yours‚ but there may be more connections than are at first apparent. Explore this possibility by comparing and/or contrasting one of your own experiences with one or two of hers as you know them through the book. Make sure your comparison and/or contrast adds up to more than just an observation of similarity or difference. What is the significance of these connections and why should it matter that your experiences
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Persepolis is a historical book yet an entertaining story of a girl during a frightening time in an important era in her country. Author‚ Marjane Satrapi writes about her experience in Iran as a child. She includes humor as well as sentimentality in this book to express her view on how times were. As a reader of this book it helped me understand the dark times that the Iranian people faced. With this book being a memoir it further helped understand the Islamic Revolution and the actions taken by
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leads me to this. Persepolis provided a different view on Iran. I think that Marjane Satrapi showed that Iran was not just about war and terrorism. She gave a look inside the country‚ a look at its people. In my opinion her family did not seem so much different than an American family. They were real people struggling with the government and violence around them. It is amazing that in the midst of all of turmoil she still had the same life lessons as any other child might. Persepolis provided a better
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here is where some would claim that the pull of nurture outweighs the effects of nature. This can be exemplified through the influence that the environment which author Marjane Satrapi was exposed to as a child and how her experiences revealed in Persepolis‚ her memoir in the form of a graphic novel‚ influenced her maturity into womanhood.
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In the book: Persepolis Marji and others are surrounded by oppression set upon them and they have to live their lives under the control of the Regime‚ The Shah‚ and being in the mix of a war between Iran and Iraq. Persepolis reflects on what happened during the Iranian Revolution‚ the way of life for people in Iran‚ and how the conflictual and corrupt state of Iran effected & changed the lives of many. Marji shows and tells us throughout the book her experiences she faces in being surrounded by oppression
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of war is a continuous aspect of life in Iran‚ as it has been for “2500 years” (Satrapi 11). The Iranian people have suffered tremendously‚ and this immense anguish is both articulated‚ and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi in her 2003 graphic novel Persepolis. Through Satrapi’s use of repetition‚ in both her illustrations and narrative‚ she is able to not only explore the theme of war‚ but allow the reader to view war from the alternate perspective of a child witness‚ rather than that of a hardened veteran
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In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis‚ the reader follows the story of Satrapi’s younger self growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Tehran‚ Iran. Starting too early in life‚ Marjane was forced to mature much too quickly. Not only that‚ even before her teenage years‚ she lost her childhood innocence as she watched the war around her. Satrapi portrays her younger self as brave‚ smart‚ and most importantly‚ mature. In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ the theme of political hardship causing children to
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In the graphic memoir‚ Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces many different symbols to reveal different themes‚ such as confinement and identity loss. One specific symbol would be the veil. This was revealed in chapter one when the new regime in Iran made wearing the veil mandatory‚ “then came 1980: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (3). In general‚ a veil is used for covering‚ such as in weddings veils for used to cover the bride before she meets her husband. In this case
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Persepolis Song Assignment Kyle Andersen 5/23/13 If someone came into our country and started play music that denounced freedom‚ football‚ and Christianity would many Americans be offended? The answer to this question is also the answer to as why the ruling party in Iran in the 1980’s banned all music that went against the principles of Islam. The Muslim religion denounces drugs‚ adultery‚ alcohol‚ gambling‚ renouncing Islam‚ and the consumption of certain animals. During the 1980’s‚ American
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel about the islamic revolution in 1979. The book was wrote by Marjane as well as illustrated which makes the images connect and show what she thought better than if someone else did it. Every image in the book was carefully thought out in order to help the reader get the most out of them. One image in particular that has lots of imagery is the image of 3 men sitting around a campfire on the bottom row of page 19. The image of the men sitting around
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