Iran reopens its borders. The family gets their passports. Marjane wants the family to take a vacation together but her parents tell her that they need a vacation alone. They tell her that they are going to Turkey. They promised to bring her back Western things‚ like posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden. Marjane’s father says that he really likes Iron Maiden and the marjane and her mother couldn’t believe it. In Turkey‚ the Satrapis go to a record store and buy the posters. They then must think
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How important is this theme to your reading of Persepolis? The graphic novel Persepolis is written by Marjane Satrapi. She describes her life‚ emotions and feelings during the Iranian revolution. It shows her happenings as a child but with the thoughts of an adult. Marjane Satrapi describes the whole events while she is a child and her feelings about it. She describes her different emotions and changing opinions during the revolution by telling different happenings in her family or those who affected
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is very common for that thing to become stuck in that person’s head for a while‚ the image of it permanently ingrained in their head. This is especially true in the authentic coming of age story that is Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi. In the graphic novel Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi effectively uses graphic images to demonstrate the themes of revolution‚ religion‚ and loss of innocence. This first visual consists of religious symbols and words meaning ‘religion’ or ‘faith’ in many languages‚ all going
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ and also viewing the film adaptation I have come to an understanding about the life of a child growing up in the time of a war. Based on her own personal experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces us to the effects of cultural change through the eyes of a child. Persepolis‚ is a political‚ historical‚ and extremely personal account of a girl’s growth into maturity. Imperialism is a huge theme in this book as it is the reason why Marjane and the
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The Complete Persepolis/ A Season of Madness These two selections are based on completely different scenarios. One takes place in Iran during its country’s revolution with Marjane‚ a girl trying to figure out who she is and wants while having to face her countries conflicts that affect her. The other story takes places inside a home were a woman named Fatin feigns madness and is having to do desperate things instead of admitting to an adulterous affair she had. Although these two stories may
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from the female characters. I found it very interesting that characters such as Marjane Satrapi‚ her mother and grandmother exhibited many signs of independency and feminism. They are living in Iran during a time where individualism was persecuted along with religion and government views. People were executed and sent to jail for showing any sign of indifference. These women took great risks to be themselves. Marjane and her family indulged in many of the things that were band in Iran during the
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right up to being an adult. She robustly considers liberty to be a valuable commodity‚ and in Iran where she lived it was a popular belief. Under the Shahs regime people are fighting and giving their lives in the name of freedom‚ which influences Marjane greatly. These values show through in her words for example when she says. "existence is not absurd. There are people who believe in it and who give their lives for values like liberty.” Page 191. But when her parents actually give her a chance
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Persepolis; Perceptions of the veil [Satrapi‚ (b) p52] “And say to the believing woman that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty...that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty...” Sūrah 24:31 The autobiographical novel “Persepolis” depicts the early stages of its author‚ Marjane Satrapi’s life. It shows her growing up in Iran‚ to her studies in Vienna‚ and her return. In an interview in 2008‚ she stated that she composed
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task focuses on the study of literature and aims to understand the attitudes and values expressed by literary texts and their impact on readers. In order to achieve this aim‚ I have decided to make a private journal entry‚ published online‚ by Marjane Satrapi’s father after he witnessed the incident between a widow and a crowd of people who had blamed the death of the widow’s husband on the Iranian King which can be found in page 32 of the Persepolis book and the second after. I have chosen to
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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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