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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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Reflection Due to Marjane’s Satrapi’s unusual style of literature in the graphic novel Persepolis‚ I now have a more profound understanding about the Iranian culture‚ and now look at Iran with a different outlook. By portraying her childhood story in a black and white comic book style Satrapi‚ makes her novel easier to relate to. The reason she chose to make her autobiographical novel black and white is so that the person reading it would not judge the characters by
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The memoir Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is written from a child’s point of view. The author relives the moments she lived in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. She does this by not only telling us but by also showing us through comic strip images. This allows the reader to get a better sense of what she lived through and what she witnessed throughout her childhood. Satrapi’s purpose for writing this book was to depict the truth and to honor those who lost their lives during the war. To do this
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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” (Palahniuk) In Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi’s identity is formed by her childhood in Iran and solidified by her path to maturity through Austria and a return to Iran that are intertwined with her country’s tumultuous narrative. The forces that drive Satrapi to become a graphic novel author living in France are‚ most prominently‚ her relatives actions and stories‚ her experiences in Vienna as a teenager‚ and the geopolitical
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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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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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Marjane Satrapi explains her desire to become a prophet when she grows up‚ therefore‚ we can infer that originally‚ Satrapi had faith in her country and religion. As the novel develops‚ the author uses Bildungsroman when describing how Satrapi’s parents educate her by buying her books‚ as a result‚ she can differentiate between propaganda and real information at her school‚ which makes her more open-minded‚ intelligent‚ and mature. However‚ Satrapi’s outspoken personality and liberalistic views led
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Dan Hogarth Aaron Vigar ENG 3U May 30th‚ 2014 Perseption The author Marjane Satrapi adds many different graphic elements such as colour and design to provide more depth and provide the reader with an image that otherwise they may not be able to perceive or get from her perspective. On multiple occasions‚ she takes what she is told about and illustrates it in a child’s perspective. Frequently throughout the novel the author demonstrates certain illustrations in a way that may not be the
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Why Marjane Satrapi chose to tell her story Persepolis in the graphic form The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was written in the graphic medium to appeal to a wider audience. Literary critic‚ Manuela Constantino‚ proposes that “the combination of a visual representation and a child’s point of view makes the story easily accessible and therefore attracts a wide range of readers.” (Constantino‚ 2008: 2) Another plausible reason for Satrapi’s choice to do the novel in this medium is the
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of age” is a popular term for stories about children becoming adults. They illustrate to the children reading them that their life could be worse and imparts “worldy wisdom” and morals to them in order to inspire them to grow up. The Shabat by Marjane Satrapi is not one of these stories. This story‚ told as graphic fiction‚ reflects a naive girl’s exposure to war and the detrimental effect it has on her life. Eventually‚ this story becomes about the death of Marji’s innocence. Her life transforms from
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