today. One of the main priorities that were put on the women was that they were forced to wear hijab‚ which was only one of the varieties of head scarves. The niqab is also another type of veil that covered the entire body including the head and face‚ only to where the eyes were visible. The function of the veil is to hide the women from the sight of forbidden men (Gheytanchi). “After the revolution of 1979‚ the revers process of compulsory veiling of all women was imposed in stages”(Gheytanchi)
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What is the role of women in the story of Persepolis? Compare and contrast the various women in some detail using at least three examples: you might include Marji‚ her mother‚ her grandmother‚ her school teachers‚ the maid‚ the neighbors‚ or the guardians of the revolution. In the story of Persepolis‚ each female character had a designated role that they could not escape from. Marji’s role was to show the reader how the Iranian Revolution truely affected her life. An example of this was when
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were unnecessary and could have been avoided. In Persepolis the Shah was removed‚ when the Satrapi family returned from Spain‚ a war was going on; a house right next to theirs was destroyed. Marji was sent to Vienna as a result of all this conflict. Not to be bland here‚ but the dress code is much too strict in the Middle East. It is not much what they are forced to wear‚ but how it is enforced. The way it is enforced is not right. In Persepolis Marji’s mother was put up against a wall and told
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westernization of cultures. It has led to stereotyping created by people in relation to various communities. It is important for people to eliminate these negative stereotypes by embracing their culture. The two novels i.e. The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Persepolis were all written for the same purpose. They both highlight the culture conflict of Muslim people because of a Western culture that is affecting the dynamics of their lives in various ways that they cannot be able to comprehend. In the Reluctant
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Jatinder Jaura ENGL- 1003(3)-001 Dr Audrey Hill July 28‚ 2014 The Complete Persepolis: Toggling Between Identities The cultural context in the storyline of the autobiographical masterpiece‚ The Complete Persepolis‚ is highly important for one to get an awareness of the settings in which the protagonist‚ Marjane ‘Marji’ Satrapi lives during this middle-eastern conflict of the 1979 Iranian revolution. The Complete Persepolis shows the major influences that the Shah’s government had on Iranians
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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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PERSEPOLIS: Unity in Diversity Submitted by: Akoijam Malemnganbi 13HEMA50 ‘If you prick us‚ do we not bleed? If you tickle us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in
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published in. Different audiences are appealed to different styles of literature.For instant‚ a child would read a book with few words and colorful pictures‚ while an older adult would prefer to read a book with nothing but words. When Satrapi wrote Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood‚ it was published in the style of a graphic novel. After analyzing the novel‚ one can conclude that Satrapi chose to write in the style of a graphic novel to fully express
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levels and being on the top affects the way she lives. By being on the top‚ Marjane does not have as hard of a life as others. She is able to go to a good school to get a good education and come to home a big house with food on the table. In the book Persepolis‚ social classes are represented because some of the kids are not able to go to school to get an education‚ while kids in the higher class‚ like Marjane‚ are. An example of this is‚ when Marjane is lying in bed and says “we were not in the same social
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or past experience. But these words raise the question of what instances produce the most meaningful or impactful character development. Tayo‚ a half-blooded Native American‚ in Ceremony and Marji‚ a teen growing up in the Iranian revolution‚ in Persepolis both display evidence that traumatic experiences can greatly impact the development of a person’s self-concept and identity by affecting the way the person sees the people around them‚ the way they see the
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