In my reading of Persepolis thus far‚ I have first noticed that this story seems as if it will be a memoir that really shows just how a girl becomes an adult. In the woman warrior‚ it seemed as if the story was a bit more of an autobiographical account than Persepolis. The life that Marji had to deal with was filled with many tough times. Compared to the Woman Warrior‚ I believe that the situations Marji had to deal with helped her to be able to better describe just how she evolved emotionally.
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contributors to the well-being of society. There is a kind of freedom in North America that many foreigners are not granted in their homeland‚ usually due to imprisoning boundaries forced upon them by their government. In her autobiographical comic Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi describes her experiences of growing up as a young woman in revolutionary Iran and critiques the connotations associated with gender during that period of political upheaval. As a native to this strict Middle-Eastern country‚ Satrapi
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EXAM JOURNAL: MIDTERM QUESTIONS The following are the pool from which the three (3) questions on your Midterm Exam will be culled. As explained in the syllabus you are required to keep exam journals for the Gilgamesh‚ Persepolis and Hamlet readings‚ based on the separate questions listed on Blackboard for each text. You may use your Exam Journals together with your completed Freud Vocabulary when you take the Midterm Exam 1. Both Ophelia and Marjane experience bouts of deep depression. In what
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Amira Black 10-29-12 Period: 2nd Kim Wilde Analysis In Kim Wilde‚ it’s been a year after her Uncle Taher dies‚ Iran reopens its borders. The family gets their passports. Marjane wants the family to take a vacation together but her parents tell her that they need a vacation alone. They tell her that they are going to Turkey. They promised to bring her back Western things‚ like posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden. Marjane’s father says that he really
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The opening chapter of Persepolis describes the implementation of the veil policy in Iran. After the populist 1979 Islamic Revolution‚ during which the westernized monarch‚ called the Shah‚ is overthrown in favor of an Islamic Republic‚ the new government becomes increasingly religious and oppressive and makes it obligatory for women and girls to wear a veil that covers most of their faces. The girls at Marjanes school‚ including her friends‚ do not like the veil‚ particularly because they do not
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In the book Persepolis‚ the pictures represent a devastating time in Iranian history. The fourth panel on page twenty nine is a picture that gives a good representation of Iran’s history. The bottom left corner presents Marjane’s father taking pictures of demonstrations and fighting between the people and the government. To the right of Marjane’s father are nine pictures unaligned‚ all of whom are taken during the demonstration. The pictures were mainly of the military controlling the demonstrators
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opportunities such as education and entertainment. But with all these advantages we could also unintentionally absorb unnecessary or even harmful information. It could easily affect even the minds of educated grown up people‚ not to mention kids and adolescence‚ who are impressible and almost incapable of independently filtering the information they receive. It makes them easy manipulative and in some ways affects their further development. We can observe these processes in Persepolis‚ on Marjane’s example
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Marjane Satrapi portrays her depression and shift from innocence in her book The Complete Persepolis. She uses colors and memories to show her true feelings. There is a major shift from her innocence to corruption of knowledge about war around the time she leaves for Vienna. She felt the weight of Iran in a place she was supposed to be safe. Right up until Satrapi leaves for Vienna‚ she can be seen wearing white in her clothing on almost every page. After this point‚ she can be seen wearing white
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beliefs. In the graphic novel Persepolis‚ the author Marjane Satrapi‚ provides a viewpoint of the Iranian society far different from the widely perceived stereotypes. She depicts the Iranian people as much more than fundamentalists‚ fanatics‚ and terrorists by incorporating a humane atmosphere within her family and visualizing events that conveys to all people regardless of ethnicity and culture. One impression that I held about the people of Iran prior to reading Persepolis was that they lived their
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beautiful‚” is a popular quote by Kailash Satyarthi. Anyone over the age of fourteen modernizes the idea whenever they say: “When I was a kid; life was much less complicated”. Marjane Satrapi literally illustrates this process in her graphic novel Persepolis as the main character Marji grows because her life becomes much more complicated. Marji transforms from a religious naive and self-centered little girl to a reckless rude and incautious teenager. By the time she is sent to Austria‚ she is more sentimental
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