music‚ wearing nike shoes and denim jacket‚ trying a cigarette‚ skipping school to go for burgers‚ etc. The whole graphic novel itself‚ as a format‚ is an example of western influence. A graphic novel earlier used as a sourse of entertainment‚ Marjane Satrapi brings it to a new level. She uses it with an aim to introduce her culture through a familiar to the foreign readers format. Moreover‚ the simplicity and the narrowness of details of her drawings encourages the readers to identify with Marji‚
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood‚ by Marjane Satrapi Identity and Social Justice Unit Ms. Kamrass English 9 Essential Questions: Why is childhood an important time of life? When does it end? How do people cope when their lives are changed by forces they cannot control? Persepolis is a graphic novel. Why do you think Satrapi chose this genre to tell her story? I. Literary terms: mood – the effect of literature on the reader: it is usually controlled by imagery allusion - in literature‚ an implied
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chapter‚ “The Cigarette” Satrapi uses a brilliant job of conducting image analysis within the reader by using extensive use of scale. One of the main ideas of this chapter is to describe how disgusted Satrapi is with the decisions the government is making: “When I think we could have avoided it all… It just makes me sick. A million people would still be alive.” (Satrapi 116) On this full page spread‚ Satrapi demonstrates her use of scale in multiple ways. First‚ Satrapi depicts a large amount of
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Satrapi’s early experiences have helped to form the unique perspective acknowledged throughout Persepolis. Throughout the novel‚ Satrapi uses graphic images to allow the readers to visualize the various dramatic events that the young Satrapi (once) witnessed. Satrapi’s informal diction and simple graphics force the readers to perceive Persepolis from the same childlike perspective she had. However‚ special attention is pulled towards Satrapi’s use of black and white graphics as a symbol of internal
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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. For example‚ her family supports the Marxist theory and communism‚ both of which argue for the disintegration of
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living in this story. In this book‚ there were many ways of living during the revolution. In this book‚ Satrapi explains how she lived when she was a child. All the difficulties she went through during the revolutions and also how other people in her community struggled daily to live. A major problem Satrapi seemed to have a problem with was during the war when they had to wear veil and Satrapi didn’t like wearing the veil because she never understood the purpose of them wearing it. During this time
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Graphic Novel Subject Guide 1 Graphic Novels Subject Guide Spring 2010 – Nova Scotia Public Libraries The Misunderstood Medium It is important to understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially
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The Role of Women and their Influences on Marjane Each women influenced Marjane in little or big aspects of her life‚ it also influenced her on her decisions and choices in life. Women such as her mother‚ her grandmother‚ her school teachers‚ the maid‚ the neighbors‚ and even the guardians of the revolution influenced Marjane and caused her to develop into an independent‚ educated‚ and ambitious woman. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane never completely conforms or let’s go of her roots‚ this is strongly
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Persepolis” especially to Marjane. It is evident that education is government run in Iran‚ and is greatly influenced by it. There are many different levels and kinds of education that Iranians experience; the kind the student had depended on their social status. I think the amount of education they received was very important to the Iranians‚ and determines their occupation later in life. Education is extremely important in the lives of Iranians in general‚ and in Marjane. Your education level is
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Usually a setting changes how a person would act/think. Setting is very important in a story because it helps the reader have more information about what is going on to understand the plot better. In “The Shabbat‚” a rebellious girl named Marjane moves to Europe from Iran. She moves to Europe because her parents were worried about her since she is so rebellious and Iran did not have a lot of freedom so they decided to send her away. When she arrives to Europe she starts to see different kinds of
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