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    rights of woman after Iranian Revolution in society can be easily seen in the movie. Firstly‚ woman does not have right to wear what she wants. Additionally‚ she has to wear headscarf all the time. As an example‚ at the one scene of the movie Marjane Satrapi‚ main character‚ and her mother were leaving the supermarket. Then a man come to mother and warned her about her headscarf in a very rude way. This shows that everybody has the right to say something about woman’s clothes even they do not know

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    Reflective Statement During our Interactive Oral Discussion‚ many questions were brought up to the table for discussion relating the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. To start the discussion I had asked‚ what emotion did the even in the Rex Theatre cause the reader to feel? I had mentioned how this event evoked anger in my persona. Everyone within the group agreed with the fact that anger was the emotion they felt. We all concluded that keeping everyone in locked doors while the fire was going

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    Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood‚ by Marjane Satrapi Identity and Social Justice Unit Ms. Kamrass English 9 Essential Questions: Why is childhood an important time of life? When does it end? How do people cope when their lives are changed by forces they cannot control? Persepolis is a graphic novel. Why do you think Satrapi chose this genre to tell her story? I. Literary terms: mood – the effect of literature on the reader: it is usually controlled by imagery allusion - in literature‚ an implied

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    childish curiosity wants to know more about why everyone is treated differently because of their wealth and status in the community but she also wants to understand the topic‚ and why it matters so much to everyone associated with the government . Satrapi and her father were having an important discussion one night and her father mentions that her grandfather was a prince‚ In this moment was when marjane’s dad told her that the shah took every one of her grandpas belongings‚ and shortly after marjane’s

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    Hadassah Viana English 10 Miss Febo 12/9/13 Marji is persistent‚ intelligent and not afraid to let people know what she believes in no matter how people will disagree with her or what the consequences will be. In the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi‚ Marji is persistent because she firmly believes in communism in spite of the consequences or opposition. She really wanted to go to the demonstration with Mehri‚ but her mother warns her not to go because it’s very dangerous. On the very day

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    Fire In Persepolis

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    Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi‚ who was growing up during the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970’s. The novel displays her experience during the Revolution and shows how it impacted her as a child and the environment she lived. Almost all of the pictures she draws in the graphic novel have a lot more thought put into them than the average reader might think. For example the image to the right (Persepolis‚ page 44‚ far-right center) shows many different things when looked

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    music‚ wearing nike shoes and denim jacket‚ trying a cigarette‚ skipping school to go for burgers‚ etc. The whole graphic novel itself‚ as a format‚ is an example of western influence. A graphic novel earlier used as a sourse of entertainment‚ Marjane Satrapi brings it to a new level. She uses it with an aim to introduce her culture through a familiar to the foreign readers format. Moreover‚ the simplicity and the narrowness of details of her drawings encourages the readers to identify with Marji‚

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    Persepolis gives students an insight to the turmoil in Iran during the nineteen hundreds. College students should read Persepolis to gain a better understanding of Islamic Culture and the hardships of Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis may lack strong diction but the information Marjane provides us with

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    authors Alvarez and Satrapi focus their novels around strong‚ female characters who are living in an oppressive regime. The main characters in both of these novels all possess unique personalities that motivated them to rebel and take action against the regime’s rules and standards. In order to develop these female characters‚ Alvarez and Satrapi depict the characters moments of weakness and doubt or the loss of religion or innocence. By emphasizing on these moments‚ Alvarez and Satrapi were able to create

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    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 Iran‚ like Marjane‚ that

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