refers to the story of the son of Marji’s maid and many other young boys who were promised a key to paradise if they fought in the war against Iraq. On page 102‚ Satrapi illustrates the shadows of young boys scattered in the air from the blast of exploding minefields below‚ each one with a plastic key around their necks. Marjane Satrapi uses shadowing of figures‚ body positions‚ an aware and comprehensive tone‚ and significant phrases or words to demonstrate the desperation of the Iranian government
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and communities were torn apart. Their lives were never the same again. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis tells readers her childhood through comics. She demonstrates to readers how the revolution and war dramatically changed the lives of her friends‚ family and herself. Even though the Islamic Revolution was to defend and free their country‚ the consequences of the war destroyed the lives of children‚ families‚ friends and Marjane. During the revolution‚ children were affected the most. Their education
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Have you ever taken a look at any other lifestyle besides yours? Well Marjane Satrapi has always lived in Iran‚ and she is pretty used to her lifestyle. If anything‚ Marjane is now trying to understand the changes in her lifestyle and why it’s happening. Marjane Satrapi’s understanding of the lifestyle in Iran is affected by three things: imperialism‚ social classes‚ and religion. The first photo demonstrates imperialism because the girl playing with the dolls represents a bigger country that is
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Beset with the unthinkable‚ the Islamic Revolution defines turbulent times for many Iranians (Tehran). Numerous females including Satrapi were robbed of their social rights due to westernizing and secular efforts (Tehran). In turn‚ the Islamic Revolution undermined the younger Satrapi’s ability to come to terms with her own identity; nevertheless‚ she now writes to share her experience with oppression and her later journey towards cultural integration. It is a historical dispute that woman did
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COUNT: REFLECTIVE STATEMENT How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? In our second interactive oral‚ we discussed about the graphical novel Persipolis written by Marjane Satrapi. War often has the tendency to scar a person’s life. It makes people live through some very terrible experiences. War has left nations crippled‚ turned cities into rubble and humans dead. People fight over a territory‚ for politics
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A Color Has Many Meanings Persepolis is a story that is illustrated in black and white. The author‚ Marjane Satrapi‚ uses many visual techniques throughout the story to draw in the reader and develop the storyline. One of these visual techniques is that she chooses to use the color of the characters’ clothing as a representation of how they feel towards the revolution. The characters are shown wearing black‚ white‚ or a mixed black and white pattern. The characters in Persepolis are drawn with
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More Than a Veil A Feminist Readings of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Cultural differences have been on the foreground of the ongoing struggle between the United States and Iran since the 1970’s. Stereotypes are built on misunderstandings which can prove costly in international relationships. Our national media coverage of Iran portrays radical Islamic men oppressing their female counterparts. Many American citizens have narrow opinions on Iranian women‚ most of them dealing with the infamous veil
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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ability to see things the way adults cannot see. For them‚ the floor is more than a surface where one can walk‚ it is a world of danger‚ full of lava. Marjane Satrapi has an imagination that plays a big part on her first book of the series‚ Persepolis. Its comic style creates base for Satrapi’s switches between reality and her imagination. We learn that Marjane does not fully understand what is happening in her country‚ therefore she constantly has to rely on the adults to teach her what is happening and
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of women through the eyes of Marjane Satrapi as a young girl were quite “normal” for her. As a young girl she did not realize how different of a life style she was living from other young girls her age living in Iran. For example when she was six she says‚ “I wanted to be a Prophet because our maid did not eat with us.” Later on in the story she reveals that their maid named Mehri was eight years old when she had to leave her parents’ home to come to work for Marjane and her family. As a teenager
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