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
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Frame 3: The Soup It was November 1984‚ Marjane now stayed in Austria and beginning her new life. Before she came‚ Marjane had the idea of leaving a religious country‚ Iran in the Middle East‚ to be free. She imagined herself to be loved and accepted by her mother’s best friend‚ Zozo as if she was her own daughter. She had a family of her own‚ Shirin‚ their daughter and Houshang‚ her husband. But found out that Zozo did not want her after all‚ she often complained that her home was too small
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when there is a forceful movement of people to a new religion‚ this migration results in a diaspora where the group is removed from their country of origin. An example of this is visible in Persepolis‚ a film adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s novel. The story shows the life of Marjane as she flees the Iran following the Shah’s overthrow in 1979. It shows the struggles of assimilating into a new community while maintaining a cultural identity‚ and the re-assimilation that follows when returning to their
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Whether its rebellion‚ or conformity‚ the characters path is set to find deeper meaning and happiness. Marjane is forced to face her role of gender in many forms throughout the entire film of Persepolis. First‚ Islamic politics would project Marjane’s early onset of rebellion. The Biased teachers preach to the children their respect for the “Shah”‚ and like any young child would‚ Marjane originally believed in what her instructor had to say. Being a young and energetic kid‚ she chanted and repeated
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Persepolis was a very insightful movie about the lives of Iranian people at a very important time in the country’s history. Two topics that stuck out to me the most were the effects of the war on the everyday lives of the citizens of Iran and secondly the not-so-patriarchal lifestyle of people at the household level. Once the revolution to bring down the Shah began‚ which was followed by the Iran-Iraq war‚ the lives of Iranians were never the same again. Before these events‚ Iran appeared to be
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Persepolis Study Guide Questions Introduction 1. Satrapi is trying to dispel the stereotypical image that all Iranians are fundamentalists‚ extremists‚ or terrorists. 2. The author’s two motives for writing the book are to dispel the stereotype and to honor the memory of those who fought for freedom and died. “The Veil” 1. The novel begins in 1979. 2. The two outcomes of the Islamic Revolutions were the shutting down of bilingual schools‚ and the girls had to wear veils.
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To understand the life of Eva Peron‚ is to understand that there were many things that were true about her and many things that were constructed as being true‚ but there was not enough evidence to lead to any form of truth. Eva Peron was an Argentinian woman that held within her the power to change her circumstances as well as the circumstances of the people around her. Her background and her past are features about her that helped to shape who she was and who she would become in the future. Eva
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In the 1980’s the Iranian government decided to undergo a ‘Cultural Revolution’ to better their society and beliefs. Bilingual institutes were shut down‚ classes in schools were separated by sexes and young girls were assigned to wear veils. The veil carried multiple connotations and viewpoints the “fundamentalists” believed in. “And so to protect women from all the potential rapists‚ they decreed that wearing the veil was obligatory (pg. 74).” In one scene‚ Marji’s mother had been threatened by
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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis resonates with themes of resistance throughout her literary composition. From repudiation of the veil‚ to mockery‚ lying‚ demonstrations‚ smoking‚ consumption of alcohol‚ and subversion‚ her work incorporated each mode in various forms creating tensions that spanned her childhood through her teenage years. In a period in which her country suffered constant upheavals‚ the conditions spawned a fertile breeding ground for the types of resistance that proliferated. As a young
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The book Persepolis and the article‚ The Friendly Iranians‚ present different ideas when it comes to describing what the TV means to the population of Iran. The book shows Margie‚ that has never had contact with a TV satellite antenna hearing one of her friends tell her that Fariborz‚ a close friend‚ which had just won that kind of antenna with international channels. Excited she jumps into a car and drives to her friend’s house where she watches MTV and EUROSPORT. She says‚ “We could finally experience
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