The Islamic Revolution and second Iran and Iraq war occurred in 1979 and changed many lives. During this time‚ families and communities were torn apart. Their lives were never the same again. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis tells readers her childhood through comics. She demonstrates to readers how the revolution and war dramatically changed the lives of her friends‚ family and herself. Even though the Islamic Revolution was to defend and free their country‚ the consequences of the war destroyed the
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Introduction The graphic novel Persepolis is a two-part series by author Marjane Satrapi that consists of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. The graphic novels carry the reader through Satrapi’s life as a child in Iran‚ her migration to Austria to get away from the war and its effects‚ and back to the war-torn country of Iran when Satrapi has matured into a lady. The novels aim to highlight the author’s experiences she faces both in her childhood and her
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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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Iran always had a history of insecurity; this had affected its foreign policy making and its self-defense actions. Instances in history have created the feeling of insecurity in Iran: Iran was divided in 1907 in a convention held and signed by Sir Arthur Nicolson the British ambassador to Russia‚ count Alexander Izvolsky who was the Russian foreign minister. In this convention‚ Iran was split into three zones: A zone under the control of the British authorities in the southeast‚ northern Persia under
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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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The Coup 53 has just taken place tonight‚ over a course of a few days. It is the first successful overthrow of the government of Iran‚ done by the CIA. The U.S. has been apart of this affair‚ supposedly to stop the nationalization of the oil fields. They kept this their center reason for helping accomplish this‚ but they say they want to help us Iranians get an Islam centered government. This could be the beginning of the Islamic Revolution! Most of the information is confidential‚ but some has now
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Women in Iran live an unparalleled life in terms of their contradictory nature. Their literacy rate is 70%‚ the won the right to vote before Switzerland and Portugal‚ both stereotypical Eurocentric hubs‚ and they hold more university seats than Americans. Under the reformist President Khatami‚ they were appointed to government office‚ developed women’s organizations‚ and began publishing magazines and websites that facilitated communication between one another. However‚ this was quickly dissolved
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This movie is based on the book with the same title that was written by the woman who actually lived through this ordeal. If you read the book‚ you will see that over and over again‚ Betty states that not all Iranians are bad. In fact‚ she frequently mentions that without the help of many friendly Iranians‚ she would never have gotten out of Iran alive. One man in particular is the owner of a men’s clothing store‚ who repeatedly lets her use his telephone to call her family back in the U.S.
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Iran-Iraq War The Iran-Iraq war was a brutal war that eradicated thousands of lives. Some say that “ It was a big mistake” or “wasn’t meant to be.” Both sides argued their own perspective‚ in a matter that they were more accurate than the other‚ or that even it wasn’t their fault. They merely believed that it was each other who were accountable for the war. Iran and Iraq had always been old rivals; some could have even said that they were like “God or satin.” Particularly‚ they would dispute
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Animal Farm: Timeless Propaganda Upon Animal Farm’s first publication in 1945‚ it quickly became a success and is now regarded as one of the best allegories of Soviet totalitarianism ever written. All of its characters provided a representation of Soviet Russia’s political figures‚ with its main character‚ Napoleon‚ illustrating Joseph Stalin and a corrupt totalitarian rule. The book parodies Stalin’s rise to power and his eventual total control of nearly every aspect of personal and private
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