One idea that can be compared between the novels The White Tiger and Persepolis is education. The role that education plays in both novels shows a lot about the characters and societies of the time they take place. To begin‚ in The White Tiger‚ Balram isn’t given the opportunity to gain an education due to the fact that he needs to begin working to help out his cousin. Balram gains intelligence by learning how to make his way through life while not having the book-smarts that society requires one
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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis resonates with themes of resistance throughout her literary composition. From repudiation of the veil‚ to mockery‚ lying‚ demonstrations‚ smoking‚ consumption of alcohol‚ and subversion‚ her work incorporated each mode in various forms creating tensions that spanned her childhood through her teenage years. In a period in which her country suffered constant upheavals‚ the conditions spawned a fertile breeding ground for the types of resistance that proliferated. As a young
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Have you ever taken a look at any other lifestyle besides yours? Well Marjane Satrapi has always lived in Iran‚ and she is pretty used to her lifestyle. If anything‚ Marjane is now trying to understand the changes in her lifestyle and why it’s happening. Marjane Satrapi’s understanding of the lifestyle in Iran is affected by three things: imperialism‚ social classes‚ and religion. The first photo demonstrates imperialism because the girl playing with the dolls represents a bigger country that is
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Persepolis Film and Book Comparison Persepolis the movie doesn’t really deviate from the book all too much. Except for a couple of scenes in color‚ which were set outside the time frame of the book‚ the film basically followed the book. Some scenes‚ for the purpose of time were likely skipped and not included in the film. For the main part‚ the film seemed to want to focus more on Marji’s political commentary and less on the extraneous portions of her life which sort of hurt the narrative. The
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The book Persepolis and the article‚ The Friendly Iranians‚ present different ideas when it comes to describing what the TV means to the population of Iran. The book shows Margie‚ that has never had contact with a TV satellite antenna hearing one of her friends tell her that Fariborz‚ a close friend‚ which had just won that kind of antenna with international channels. Excited she jumps into a car and drives to her friend’s house where she watches MTV and EUROSPORT. She says‚ “We could finally experience
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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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Beset with the unthinkable‚ the Islamic Revolution defines turbulent times for many Iranians (Tehran). Numerous females including Satrapi were robbed of their social rights due to westernizing and secular efforts (Tehran). In turn‚ the Islamic Revolution undermined the younger Satrapi’s ability to come to terms with her own identity; nevertheless‚ she now writes to share her experience with oppression and her later journey towards cultural integration. It is a historical dispute that woman did
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all kinds of stereotypes. This occurrence‚ however‚ is clearly recognized by a Muslim author named Marjane Satrapi. In her graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ Satrapi illustrates her story of living in Iran as a discreet revolutionist child going against the Fundamentalists’ throughout the Islamic Revolution. Proving Iran’s image of having connections with fundamentalism‚ fanaticism‚ and terrorism false‚ Satrapi successfully sheds light upon her subversion to Western stereotypes about Muslims through the use
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COUNT: REFLECTIVE STATEMENT How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? In our second interactive oral‚ we discussed about the graphical novel Persipolis written by Marjane Satrapi. War often has the tendency to scar a person’s life. It makes people live through some very terrible experiences. War has left nations crippled‚ turned cities into rubble and humans dead. People fight over a territory‚ for politics
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More Than a Veil A Feminist Readings of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Cultural differences have been on the foreground of the ongoing struggle between the United States and Iran since the 1970’s. Stereotypes are built on misunderstandings which can prove costly in international relationships. Our national media coverage of Iran portrays radical Islamic men oppressing their female counterparts. Many American citizens have narrow opinions on Iranian women‚ most of them dealing with the infamous veil
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