although some nations are still at struggle. Ayatollah Khomeini‚ leader of Iranian Revolution has led his nation to independence by abolishing western ways and restoring Islamic law to Iran. While Iran’s leader Shah ( king ) Mohammed Reza Pahlevi embraced western governments with the support of the U.S‚ by the end of the 1950’s Iran’s capital featured skyscrapers‚ banks‚ and modern factories. However‚ many Iranians lived in poverty. The Shah’s policy to punish anyone who dared to oppose him and
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Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran by an Islamic revolutionary government earlier in the year had led to a steady deterioration in Iran-United States relations (Stalling). The crisis was caused by the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran‚ Iran by Iranian students on November 4‚ 1979 (Stalling). The Shah fled Iran and went to the United States. Ayatollah Khomeini‚ a fundamentalist Islamic leader‚
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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 the people of Islam in their efforts to stay safe during the war with Iraq. Marjane Strapi brought her experience to life as she
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This Islamic revolution started when Iranian citizens were dissatisfied with the rule of Shah Reza Pahlavi. The annoyed people of Iran were irritated with the Shah due to the fact that he lead them with the use of fear‚ manipulation‚ and formed a secret police that would report anything and
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to gain a connectetion with the author because she actually kuved these events and we as readers get a sense of the true emotions. Persepolis creates a viewpoint like no other‚ it gives the reader a view from a child’s perspective during the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel that encompasses the struggles of a child coming to age. An autobiographical piece depicting the life of a girl who is living through the Iranian revolution. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane has personal conversations with an autonomous god. She shares everything with him‚ her expectations of the world and her purpose in life. However‚ the relationship between them evolves over time as she grows older. When Satrapi introduces god in the novel she explains
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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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On August 19‚ 1953‚ the Iranian military‚ supported by the United States government‚ overthrew Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstated the Shah of Iran‚ marking the first real instance of U.S covert action and regime change. While the CIA has only recently admitted to U.S involvement‚ the motivations for this coup d’état were quite clear. Mosaddeq came to power in 1951 and almost instantly made his nationalist ideologies publicly known by calling for the expropriation of Iran’s oil fields. This
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In the very first frame of the novel the veil is already shown. The Iranian women had to wear the veil‚ because of the religious oppression they experienced. “We really didn’t like to wear the veil‚ especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (page 3). Marjane’s mother chooses not to wear the veil. When she was walking
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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