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    Persepolis

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    Persepolis Project Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. The book is written in a first person point of view‚ portraying Marjane’s interpretations of key aspects of her child hood and what she had to go through growing up in Iran. Unfortunately for Marjane she grew up in a very troublesome time‚ the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the continuous revolts that occurred after the revolution. And we see over the course of the book how this greatly affects her life and the decisions

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    Social Class Differences in Persepolis In‚ “The Complete Persepolis‚” by Marjane Satrapi‚ class struggle is a vital issue all throughout the novel. At an early stage in the book‚ we interpret that Marjane comes from a fairly wealthy family as her dad drives a Cadillac‚ as well as that they have a maid. It seems like as though this confuses Marjane as her family advocates freedom and equality. The idea of social class differences is more clearly presented in the chapter “The Letter‚” when her maid

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    Through the help of the media‚ people of our culture stereotype the Iranians based on an ethnocentric viewpoint without developing a clear sense of understanding or the reasons behind their beliefs. In the graphic novel Persepolis‚ the author Marjane Satrapi‚ provides a viewpoint of the Iranian society far different from the widely perceived stereotypes. She depicts the Iranian people as much more than fundamentalists‚ fanatics‚ and terrorists by incorporating a humane atmosphere within her family

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    Fiction? A mix of High art and popular culture: Marjane Satrapi’s ’’Persepolis’’ is the latest and one of the most palatable examples of a postmodern genre‚ an autobiographical novel in form of a comic-book which tells the history of Iran from Marjane’s point of view. Persepolis is a postmodern graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between popular culture and high art by mixing political history and autobiography in a comic-book version. Marjane uses the medium of a graphic novel to share her own

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    use Facebook-Twitter to screen job candidates” online http://oregonbusinessreport.com/2009/08/45-employers-use-facebook-twitter-to-screen-job-candidates (8/24/2009) 4. Rosenfeld N‚ Kimberly (Terminator to Avatar: A Post Modern Shift‚ 2010) 5. SatrapiMarjane “Persopolis” (Random House Inc‚ 1969)

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    perspectives. In Iran‚ Marji’s school taught her that God chose the leader of the country. Consequentially‚ Marji believed this throughout most of her childhood. As a result‚ Marji tells her father‚ “As for me‚ I love the king‚ he was chosen by God” (Satrapi 19) Marji’s father tells her the story of how the British took an uneducated man and made him the dictator of Iran in exchange for some of the country’s oil. Marji’s father explains‚ “And that’s how he became king and naturally his son succeeded

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    Persepolis Essay

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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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    Growing Up In Persepolis

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    Persepolis (Marjanne Satrapi‚ Vincent Paronnaud‚ 2007) Persepolis chronicles the life of Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran. Growing up‚ she is surrounded by her loving family and relatives‚ and like most teenagers anywhere‚ she has a penchant for pop music‚ fashion‚ and rebelliousness. Soon‚ Marjane finds herself confronting the injustices of the Iranian regime. She sees her uncle die after his window-washer-turned-government employee refused to give him permission to seek medical treatment

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    Persepolis Criticism

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    right up to being an adult. She robustly considers liberty to be a valuable commodity‚ and in Iran where she lived it was a popular belief. Under the Shahs regime people are fighting and giving their lives in the name of freedom‚ which influences Marjane greatly. These values show through in her words for example when she says. "existence is not absurd. There are people who believe in it and who give their lives for values like liberty.” Page 191. But when her parents actually give her a chance

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    task focuses on the study of literature and aims to understand the attitudes and values expressed by literary texts and their impact on readers. In order to achieve this aim‚ I have decided to make a private journal entry‚ published online‚ by Marjane Satrapi’s father after he witnessed the incident between a widow and a crowd of people who had blamed the death of the widow’s husband on the Iranian King which can be found in page 32 of the Persepolis book and the second after. I have chosen to

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