Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a memoir in graphic narrative form‚ and its organization‚ portrayal of different things such as narrative voice‚ and drawings all come together to form the narrative structure. These different areas give the reader the ability to perceive the memoir in a variety of different ways‚ through the use of the passage of time‚ and style in which different areas such as historical context are emphasized. In addition‚ the manner in which the memoir is structured into panels
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The book that I have chosen to write on is “Persepolis”‚ by Marjane Satrapi. I’m going to explain how the first few pages in the book perfectly describes the four points which are nationality‚ race‚ gender‚ and sexuality. This book is a story about a childhood of a little girl. In 1979‚ the Islamic revolution took place. Then in 1980‚ it was mandatory for kids to wear veils to school. They didn’t really like wearing the veils because they did not understand why they had to. This was a very big change
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Have you ever read a story or stories that have literary elements? Well‚ all stories have literary elements‚ but today I’m going to compare‚ and contrast three stories “Liberty”‚ “Sniper”‚ and “Harrison Bergeron” along with three elements conflict‚ setting‚ and character. Conflict is the first literary element I will talk about with these stories. Each story had a conflict that was like each other. In “Liberty” the narrator and her family needed to escape from the island to the USA without being
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A story is not complete without a setting‚ mood‚ theme‚ conflict‚ or a plot. These literary elements also have a big impact on life. After a reader is don’t reading a story‚ they could be influenced by the story and see life a lot differently. Many stories literary elements are similar to others‚ while some are completely different. Theme is what makes a story come to life and what influences your thoughts and actions. The themes of Ambush‚ The Sniper‚ and Harrison Bergeron will makes you have
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Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi‚ who was growing up during the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970’s. The novel displays her experience during the Revolution and shows how it impacted her as a child and the environment she lived. Almost all of the pictures she draws in the graphic novel have a lot more thought put into them than the average reader might think. For example the image to the right (Persepolis‚ page 44‚ far-right center) shows many different things when looked
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Friday 25th October “The Wine” Now that Iraq had bombed all the border towns‚ Tehran quickly became their main targets and bombers started to bomb our city. Luckily‚ in our building‚ we had a basement that we decided to turn into a shelter. As the Siren rang‚ everybody would run down to the basement. Mom took a cigarette out and lit it‚ and then dad angrily asked her to put it out. He was scared that the bombers would see a glow from the sky; I guess it was the fear of death‚ but then
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raised in the book are the division of society by class differences and the influences of Western culture. These two political issues are of particular importance because they greatly affected Satrapi’s childhood as well as her pathway to maturity. Persepolis deals with issues of class disparities and Satrapi displays a conflicted feeling towards the subject. One of the reasons the subject remains contradictory is that Satrapi shows her parents as very warm-hearted‚ but flawed and hypocritical people
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Although Simon and Marji had different views about freedom‚ they all agree that freedom is very important for people to have in their life. First of all‚ Simon thought freedom meant not being captive‚ and people can do whatever they want instead of being told to do so. Additionally‚ he asserted that freedom is very important for people and he indicates that a lack of freedom will make people not be able to do what they want to do. Lastly‚ Simon told me he had seen numerous examples of freedom in
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Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday Party” contains many literary elements that make the story unique and memorable. Brush’s purpose for writing this piece is to teach two valuable lessons: things are not always what they seem and every action has its consequence. To achieve her purpose‚ Brush uses literary devices such as irony‚ tone‚ point of view‚ etc. to make readers feel as though they are living in this captured moment along with the characters. Situational irony plays a big role in this
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Coco Chanel once said‚ “The most courageous act is to think for yourself‚ out loud!”. In the autobiographical graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ Marji does exactly that. Persepolis depicts Marji’s life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and how she finds herself and becomes more independent and rebellious by thinking for herself. Over several years‚ this novel follows Marji and the changes that she makes to gain her independence and how becoming independent means that she also becomes
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