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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“Since then‚ this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism‚ fanaticism‚ and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of my life in Iran‚ I know that this image is far from the truth.” In Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis the author writes how even though Iran deals with countless years of warfare‚ the submission to radical Islam‚ and the problem of education. Not all Iranians support the portrayal of their country by the western world. In
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Persepolis The memoir of Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran is written as a very personal account in the comic book Persepolis. This is a story that describes her life during the Islamic Revolution which includes her moral‚ physical‚ religious‚ and psychological struggles she endured. Being the setting of a bloody war with Iraq‚ Iran was not the ideal environment Marjane’s parents wanted her to grow up in. Persepolis represents a unique life of a child in Tehran‚ Iran and the actions she took
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David Miller Oppression on Women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Marjane Satrapi‚ in Persepolis writes about a memoir of a little girl growing in Iran. She refers to a secular pre-revolutionary time through contrast‚ the oppressive characteristics of the fundamentalist government upon women in specifics. In comparison‚ her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood’s‚ A Handmaid’s Tale‚ in which the central character‚ Offred‚ reflects upon her former life’s
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but has also shared her stories with the world. Marjane Satrapi‚ the main character in the graphic novel Persepolis‚ demonstrates gender roles‚ religion‚ and social classes‚ through drawings and words. Right from the start of the book‚ Marjane Satrapi gives an example of gender roles. She explains her younger self’s view on the veil. “Then came 1980: The year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school. We didn’t really like to wear the veil‚ especially since we didn’t understand why we had
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by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiography of her life growing up in Iran during a time of revolution and oppression. Marjane is a young girl who is inquisitive‚ religious‚ outspoken and ambitious. She grows up struggling to understand the many rules imposed by the Shah which over time changes her. Years of oppression and injustice in Iran following the Islamic Revolution leads to long-term‚ negative psychological effects such as rebellion‚ coldness‚ and indifference as illustrated by Marjane Satrapi
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about Persepolis while I read this true life story of Marjane Satrapi. This book has helped me to see all the life struggles‚ good times‚ and adversities that Marji faced between the ages of nine to thirteen. The Islamic Revolution had such a daunting effect in the Middle East‚ especially in the county of Iran where Marji and her family resided. In the year of 1979 all that Marjane knew what it was like to not have to be forced into wearing a veil. Before the Islamic Revolution she was able to attend
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Marjane Satrapi tells her story to readers by allowing them to relate to her. The graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ depicts Satrapi’s life as a young female during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Satrapi universalizes the idea of a battle with independence while growing up‚ by sharing her experiences‚ in order to allow her readers to relate to her. Satrapi suggests that the idea of independence within childhood is universal among children in the world. “Satrapi illustrates that
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to grow up and live in Iran. Graphic novelist‚ Marjane Satrapi‚ in her autobiographical comic book Persepolis that was published in French‚ recounts her childhood life in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Satrapi’s purpose is to show French people what it is like to live in Iran at that particular time in a comic form. She described her experience through little Marjane(Marji)’s eyes in order to develop empathy with her audiences. Satrapi successfully presents Iranian people’s life at
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are marginalized‚ excluded or silenced in the text? Outline: * Show how Marjane Satrapi grew up under oppression during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. * Give and explain evidence of how the author presents that different social groups were marginalized/silenced. * Show how Marji and her parents shared the same beliefs when making reference to the regime. The graphic novel Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ explores her childhood years in the middle of the Islamic Revolution. Situated
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