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    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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    Final Essay TCP Education is a priority for a lot of the Iranians in “The Complete 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

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    Persepolis Resistance

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    institutions and by fighting with action to resolve those inequities. Resistance takes many forms‚ and all of the texts demonstrate the full definition of resistance‚ but the different clauses and phrases will be best exemplified by certain texts. In Persepolis‚ Satrapi shows that the manifestations of resistance that she saw in her childhood ultimately existed so that a fairer world would be created. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed‚ Freire gives voice to the resistance against socio-economic oppression by

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    In the graphic memoir‚ Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces many different symbols to reveal different themes‚ such as confinement and identity loss. One specific symbol would be the veil. This was revealed in chapter one when the new regime in Iran made wearing the veil mandatory‚ “then came 1980: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (3). In general‚ a veil is used for covering‚ such as in weddings veils for used to cover the bride before she meets her husband. In this case

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    Naraghi Humanities 8 16 October 2013 Persepolis Essay Imagine being born with a stamp on your forehead that defines where you’ll fit in society for the rest of your life. The book Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ greatly deepens the readers understanding of iran and iranian women by the illustration of Marjane’s childhood all the way through adolecense while living in Iran at a time where gender‚ nationality‚ and social class defined one’s identity the most. Persepolis greatly deepens the reader’s understanding

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    silenced within the text? Another interpretation of the word ’within’ suggests we look at how one character silences another character in a text. For example: ’How are secularists silenced by the Islamic Revolutionists in Persepolis?’ The autobiographical graphic novel‚ Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi opens up with the chapter The Veil‚ in 1980 in Iran‚ when the revolution has began. Marjane is 10 years old forced to wear a veil as a school girl. Where did you find this page reference???

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    Persepolis Analysis The graphic novel Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ is a autobiography describing her childhood in Iran and her early life and studies in Europe. As a graphic novel‚ the book uses text and drawings to tell the story. The autobiography is effectively transmitted because‚ even though the images do not tell the story by themselves‚ they help the reader visualize it‚ and help set the tone and mood. The images help the reader understand the story better‚ and visualize what the author

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    religious‚ physical‚ traditional‚ or even affected by disdained feelings against them‚ Muslims suffer from 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

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    here is where some would claim that the pull of nurture outweighs the effects of nature. This can be exemplified through the influence that the environment which author Marjane Satrapi was exposed to as a child and how her experiences revealed in Persepolis‚ her memoir in the form of a graphic novel‚ influenced her maturity into womanhood.

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    Imagination In Persepolis

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    their ability to see things the way adults cannot see. For them‚ the floor is more than a surface where one can walk‚ it is a world of danger‚ full of lava. Marjane Satrapi has an imagination that plays a big part on her first book of the series‚ Persepolis. Its comic style creates base for Satrapi’s switches between reality and her imagination. We learn that Marjane does not fully understand what is happening in her country‚ therefore she constantly has to rely on the adults to teach her what is happening

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