we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in WW2‚ Marjane writes about her own life story when she was growing up in Iran before‚ during and after The Islamic Revolution in her book Persepolis 1: The story of a childhood. In her second book Persepolis 2: The story of a return she continues
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about the book‚ etc. This is basically how our discussion went: We had 5 members in our group that talked about Persepolis. The first and general question that was asked was who was everyone’s favorite character in the story. Everyone said that Marjane was their favorite‚ but Tyler stated that Marjane’s mother was her favorite character because she was more rebellious than anyone else in the story. A question from Franchesa was how everyone felt the people were locked in the theater and they basically
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and how they illuminate an overall argument about Marjane’s life. 1. How has Marjane been educated through her experience by the end of the movie? Be sure to use examples from the book and cite pages and images that back up your argument‚ as well as examples from the movie. Feel free to compare instances from your own life to hers‚ as this may help frame your essay. 2. Compare the life changes Marjane goes through in the graphic novel with her time spent in Vienna and back in Iran in
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Persepolis‚ which was very interesting. For example‚ we noticed the way Marjane begins to lie to her parents as well as to the outside world. Or how she commonly as every teenager‚ tries to smoke a cigarette for the first time to rebel against her parents. However I think that the main thing we learnt during this interactive oral was that we all realized that it wasn’t a common teenage rebellion‚ in fact‚ every time Marjane rebelled against her parents as for example when she went against their
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ability to shape meaning‚ in order to reflect upon their attitudes towards the past. This interaction manifests in the examination of the conflicting strengths and limitations of history and memory throughout Mark Baker’s memoir The Fiftieth Gate and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis as both texts place emphasis on the inherent bias of acts of inclusion‚ emphasis and omission. Consequent of the inability to objectively capture definitive truth‚ all modes of representations of the past are unassailably
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In the graphic novel Persepolis (2000)‚ author Marjine Satrapi is living as a young girl in the Islamic Revolution of 1978. She experiences change in social classes economically between her friends and her family. Marji notices how the revolution impacts everyone around her in a way that shapes their own lives. Persepolis shows a message that higher economic levels raise the standard of how one lives. To start off‚ Satrapi uses artistic techniques to show emotion. She uses a sharp detail in the
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Personal Troubles and Public Issues in Persepolis Marjane Satrapi’s novel Persepolis is an in depth look at Marjane’s child hood in Iran. Throughout the novel Marji faces many public issues which directly relate to her personal troubles. While Marji was growing up she witnessed the relinquishment of the Shah’s regime‚ The Islamic revolution and the Iraq v Iran war. Her novel covers an eight year span‚ from the ages six to fourteen. Even though the novel begins when Marji is only six years old she
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Frame 3: The Soup It was November 1984‚ Marjane now stayed in Austria and beginning her new life. Before she came‚ Marjane had the idea of leaving a religious country‚ Iran in the Middle East‚ to be free. She imagined herself to be loved and accepted by her mother’s best friend‚ Zozo as if she was her own daughter. She had a family of her own‚ Shirin‚ their daughter and Houshang‚ her husband. But found out that Zozo did not want her after all‚ she often complained that her home was too small
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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 the re-assimilation that follows when returning to their
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Whether its rebellion‚ or conformity‚ the characters path is set to find deeper meaning and happiness. Marjane is forced to face her role of gender in many forms throughout the entire film of Persepolis. First‚ Islamic politics would project Marjane’s early onset of rebellion. The Biased teachers preach to the children their respect for the “Shah”‚ and like any young child would‚ Marjane originally believed in what her instructor had to say. Being a young and energetic kid‚ she chanted and repeated
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