Alicia Rivas Anderson English 1101 5 October 2011 5 Claims Revised and Developed 1) When Marji was inventing torture games‚ she was merely a product of the war environment. Marji lived in an environment surrounded by violence‚ anger‚ and most importantly war. She is a young girl and during school she invented a game where the loser would be punished with war punishments. Some of these punishments included the “mouth filled with garbage” method or the twisted arm method. While most
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After just completing the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ and also viewing the film adaptation I have come to an understanding about the life of a child growing up in the time of a war. Based on her own personal experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces us to the effects of cultural change through the eyes of a child. Persepolis‚ is a political‚ historical‚ and extremely personal account of a girl’s growth into maturity. Imperialism is a huge theme
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In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ Marjane experiences revolution at a young age and learns to express nationalism as she explores her religion and what it actually means to her. From a young age Marjane sought to be a prophet and conversated with God most every night‚ always staying close to her religion. This shows a clear representation of Islamic Religion in Persepolis. At least Marjane’s view on it. All throughout the book she bases thoughts and action off her religion always keeping it close
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conveys a message that the time period was idyllic‚ similar to what people considered ancient Persepolis. Both of these time periods were considered to be filled with the greatest treasures and a time of happiness. Persepolis has many treasures such as Apadana Hall‚ Tachare palace‚ tombs of the kings‚ and inscriptions and artwork that the people here made throughout the empire. The people that lived in Persepolis were filled with joy because they were living in one of the richest cities and a place that
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Persepolis Analysis Analysis by : Arianna E. Pages 338-341 In Persepolis‚ the author Marjane Satrapi deals the feeling alienated by her own country‚ but also by any other country she tries to reside. She is to westernized for Iran‚ but to Iranian for the West‚ so she is constantly fighting with herself about who she really is and how she can deal with it. The whole point of this section is about Maji finally accepting who she is‚ after having struggling with it for the entire book. Her overall
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feature of today’s increasingly global society. However‚ when there is a forceful movement of people to a new religion‚ this migration results in a diaspora where the group is removed from their country of origin. An example of this is visible in Persepolis‚ a film adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s novel. The story shows the life of Marjane as she flees the Iran following the Shah’s overthrow in 1979. It shows the struggles of assimilating into a new community while maintaining a cultural identity‚ and
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In the book‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ the main character is the author as a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She starts off as an incredibly positive child with enormous faith in herself and her relationship with G-d. Through her experiences‚ especially when she was in her crucial‚ early teenage years‚ she completely loses her faith in G-d and also rebels against her environment. The author wants to show the Western world that there are many people in
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for the book Persepolis. I will be analyzing how the creators own words twist back against them‚ and gainsay what they previously said. I will use this lens is unearth the binary opposition of values or aphorisms in this book. I will overturn all manifestations of hypocrisy in all discourses from viewpoints on religion‚ and society to gender roles and sex. My credibility comes from my years of experience of deconstructing and writing novels‚ also I have researched this book Persepolis intensively
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Power is used as a theme in the book “Persepolis’ because it uses the definition of the word power as the capability of doing or accomplishing something. The word power fits in this book because Persepolis is mainly based on gender inequality and how the females are basically treated less than males. One of the major issues in Persepolis is how the views and expectations of women changed in revolutionary Iran as author Marjane Satrapi grew up there. At a young age‚ she wants to fix social inequalities
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In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi the main character‚ Marjane‚ lives in Iran and is required‚ by fear of punishment‚ to wear a veil that only leaves her face uncovered. Having to wear a veil is portrayed as an insult to women’s rights. However in the article “Why We Wear the Haijab‚” by Sumayyah Hussein‚ Sumayya Syed says the veil “‘liberates you from the media’” (p118) It is also seen as a form of protection from judgment and western influences. The women interviewed in the article tell of the benefits
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