the atmosphere of a war really affects and change people who are around it. There is nothing great about hearing "Marjane‚ run to the basement! We’re being bombed!" (Satrapi 71) Being involved with a war can potentially change your life forever. Persepolis is a book that centers on the author’s family during the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for eight years. Marjane’s experience of the war is quite innocent since she saw it from the eyes of a well-protected
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political issues that are raised in the book are the division of society by class differences and the influences of Western culture. These two 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
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After just completing the graphic novel 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
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The book that I have chosen to write on is “Persepolis”‚ by Marjane Satrapi. I’m going to explain how the first few pages in the book perfectly describes the four points which are nationality‚ race‚ gender‚ and sexuality. This book is a story about a childhood of a little girl. In 1979‚ the Islamic revolution took place. Then in 1980‚ it was mandatory for kids to wear veils to school. They didn’t really like wearing the veils because they did not understand why they had to. This was a very big change
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a memoir in graphic narrative form‚ and its organization‚ portrayal of different things such as narrative voice‚ and drawings all come together to form the narrative structure. These different areas give the reader the ability to perceive the memoir in a variety of different ways‚ through the use of the passage of time‚ and style in which different areas such as historical context are emphasized. In addition‚ the manner in which the memoir is structured into panels
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In the book‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ the main character is the author as a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She starts off as an incredibly positive child with enormous faith in herself and her relationship with G-d. Through her experiences‚ especially when she was in her crucial‚ early teenage years‚ she completely loses her faith in G-d and also rebels against her environment. The author wants to show the Western world that there are many people in
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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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Nils Tangemann Josh Holland English A SL C-Code Section: Part 3 Works read: Satrapi‚ Marjane. Persepolis. Pantheon. New York. 2003 Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? The Display of Revolutionists in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis there are several important social groups that all play a role towards creating the whole picture that describes little Marji’s everyday life in 1970s Iran. The nature of the revolution during that
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experience or situation. In Persepolis‚ Marjane desperately wants to be seen as an educated individual and laughs along with her parents and grandmother about the joke the word “martyr” has become. She discusses her search for knowledge when she was a child in her caption saying “I realized then that I didn’t understand anything. I read all the books I could” (32). Marjane constantly seeks for ways to understand the events that are unfolding around her. Listening to the stories of her family members
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increasingly global society. However‚ 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
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