Marjine Satrapi's Persepolis
In the graphic novel Persepolis (2000), author Marjine Satrapi is living as a young girl in the Islamic Revolution of 1978. She experiences change in social classes economically between her friends and her family. Marji notices how the revolution impacts everyone around her in a way that shapes their own lives. Persepolis shows a message that higher economic levels raise the standard of how one lives. To start off, Satrapi uses artistic techniques to show emotion. She uses a sharp detail in the first panel to show bombs while the young soldiers are at war. This gives the panel a feeling of hardship and change for the soldiers. The author also includes contrast between the colors of the bodies and the background. Each person has a key wrapped