story. In this book‚ there were many ways of living during the revolution. In this book‚ Satrapi explains how she lived when she was a child. All the difficulties she went through during the revolutions and also how other people in her community struggled daily to live. A major problem Satrapi seemed to have a problem with was during the war when they had to wear veil and Satrapi didn’t like wearing the veil because she never understood the purpose of them wearing it. During this time‚ people of
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where a woman is from. For instance‚ Marjane Satrapi trying to figure out who she is as a person in the middle of Iran before and after the Islamic revolution. A difficult time and place to be alive for any resident of the country especially if that someone had was female. In Iran before the revolution women were allowed to wear what they pleased‚ after the new regime took effect the men of society decided the hijab was suitable. In these oppressed society Satrapi was taught how the small victories
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the most important character because it is showing how he died and his feelings for his soon. It also showed how unprepared and unprofessional people were getting jobs‚ important ones‚ just by accepting the regime. The cigarette: in this chapter Marjane is getting to show how stubborn she can be. She started to smoke and to think that her mom is behaving as one of the dictator of the regime. She also got to skip class for the first time in her life. She did it because of her friends that are older
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beginning of the book‚ Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ I realized that the story is about more than just a country at war. The story is about a child with ideals. It is easy to stereotype someone of a different culture. I say this because it is the truth. It is much easier to allow yourself to believe a stereotype than it is to see every person as an individual. I should be ashamed to say that I have viewed Iran as a “country of fundamentalism and terrorism.” Satrapi challenges this by portraying Marji
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beginning of the novel‚ it insinuates because of the prestige and high standard that the Americans have established for themselves‚ it makes it easy for a foreigner to want to adopt their culture and abandon his or her own. Persepolis focuses on Marjane and how the
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that my parents had always taught me while growing up. The book‚ The Complete Persepolis‚ written by Marjane Satrapi‚ is about Satrapi’s difficulties of her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution‚ the teenage years in Vienna‚ and her return back to Iran. The book shows the difficulties and joys of growing up in a completely different environment in where she doesn’t fit in. As a child Satrapi grew up around a corrupt regime and was always taught to stand of for what she believed in. As a child
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Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that characterize her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire‚ Persepolis. During the 1980s when this book is set‚ Iran was having the largest revolution in the country’s history. We are going to see Marg’s evolution threw out five major themes: religion‚ family‚ friends‚ society and authority. We are going to peruse the pros
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Persepolis Analysis Analysis by : Arianna E. Pages 338-341 In Persepolis‚ the author Marjane Satrapi deals the feeling alienated by her own country‚ but also by any other country she tries to reside. She is to westernized for Iran‚ but to Iranian for the West‚ so she is constantly fighting with herself about who she really is and how she can deal with it. The whole point of this section is about Maji finally accepting who she is‚ after having struggling with it for the entire book. Her overall
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Persepolis is a coming of age graphic novel written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi. The novel ( also adapted into a film in 2007) depicts her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The story is timeless and captures the roller coaster of emotions of the human experience. It would translate beautifully to the stage. Even though I think about producing a show with a young audience in mind‚ this is a story for everyone. The narrative creates an experience
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The Veil Many great writers like Sen and Satrapi have written about how the people are victims of stereotyping. Where they are automatically classified into a class or rank by others viewing them as the people subjected to in particular stereotypes. However I have come to learn through the autobiography of Satrapi The Veil that Iranian women were forced to wear the veil at all times‚ when many did not support the idea. This intriguing text has been brought to my attention because I thought I strongly
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