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The Maus books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are the non-fictional stories of Art and his father, Vladek. In the book, Art Spiegelman is a writer, planning to portray Vladek’s life as a Jewish man during WWII Europe in comic book form. While Art gathers information for his story through visits to his father’s house, much is learned about their relationship and individual personalities. Through this analysis, Maus becomes an example of how the Holocaust has effected the lives of survivors and their children for decades. Survivors suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which impairs their ability to live normal lives and raise their children. By

After the Holocaust on May 8th, 1945, a book called Maus was released which is revolved around survival. The author, Art Spiegelman intended the story was to reflect upon his past and express his feelings world how he had to deal life was at the time.The book is a story of Art’s father named Vladek, he tells his point-of-view to the world to show multiple struggles he had to withstand. The theme of Art Spiegelman’s book Maus is survival; Art Spiegelman shows the theme of survival by using tone, mood, and point-of-view throughout the graphic novel. Vladek is the main character of Maus and shares his point of view. Vladek tells a true story about how he survived the Holocaust and the things he had to accomplish to make it through alive. This book is based on a true story of what had happened during the Holocaust.

Western culture has often misperceived the east and the way that their society functions. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Satrapi uses graphic novels as a way to demonstrate to the western culture how the east has been misrepresented. The use of media helps to depict to the west how their views of the east may have been unfairly formed in the past. The media has only revealed limited knowledge that only shows partial perspectives because it is difficult to get perspectives of the minorities although they are the ones who hold the most truth. In other words the use of graphic novels and a child’s perspective give the west a new idea on how it is that society in the east functions. This style of writing brings the connection between the two

We mature from young girls or boys to women and men through enduring somewhat of a traumatizing experience, or just getting older (while our minds become wiser) in our lives that shapes said maturity levels. Marjane Satrapi, contemporary graphic novelist, writes about her own coming of age experience in the novel “Persepolis”. Satrapi sheds light on what it was like to live during the Islamic Revolution in 1979 as a young girl and some of the multitude of things she experienced. She displays a sense of what it was like to want to live life a certain way but having to abide by rules that put your life in danger when broken. The novel is that of a graphic novel and, while still fully and with great detail conveys the inhumane ways of the Islamic Revolution, it seems light hearted because of its comic book nature.

Marjane Satrapi articulates the times of turmoil in Iran in her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis. The text conveys the experience of three different time periods over a short span of fifty years: the pre-Shah period, the Shah’s monarchy, and the Islamic Revolution that followed. Satrapi chooses to use the main female characters, her grandmother and mother, and the minor characters, her school teacher and servant Mehri, to reflect the societal and political changes made during these time periods. These figures Satrapi uses are defined through the symbol of the veil and the conversations Marji, as Satrapi calls her younger self, has with them. Satrapi chooses to present the graphic novel in black and white to mirror the anarchy in society

Persepolis, a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi, is about Marjane’s childhood during the Revolution war in Iran. The memoir begins in her hometown of Tehran, where she is exposed to the devastating war effects and changes in both home and public life. Her innocence captures a child's-eye perspective which… She comes from a family filled with activists, and much of her way of thinking is influenced by her family. Throughout the scenes in the graphic novel Persepolis, readers gain a powerful understanding of what life must have been like in Iran during the Revolution.

Did you know that even in a bad situation, good can come out of it? Well in this graphic novel of Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi, there are numerous examples of how a tragedy can turn into something comical. Persepolis is a graphic novel that talks about how different people lived and reacted during the time of the devastating effects of the War of Iraq. Some people for insists, are like the protagonist Marji Satrapi and her family, by making the most of things; and some people are not like them. This essay will give some examples of how citizens of Iran enjoyed life throughout everything that happened to them and how Satrapi added comic relief to the graphic novel.

Many people grow up surrounded by poverty in war. During the late 20th century and into the 21st century, the children in the unstable and war-ravaged Middle East were forced to grow up surrounded by persecution, death, and a constant fear that that day may be their last. Women experienced an even more brutal, as the Islam religion, which governed parts of the Middle East, carried traditional values, which constrained the individuality and freedom of women. This hardship of growing up in an environment where one feels choked out of one’s own skin is prevalent in the graphic novel, Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel depicting Marjane’s life from the time she was a child up to her early adult years in Iran

Moreover, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, is the autobiography of her childhood during the Iranian revolution. Satrapi uses the power of graphic images from the novel to create a character that her audience can identify with to be able to deconstruct the stereotypes and boundaries between the Eastern and Western regions within her coming of age story. Ultimately, in the first panel of Persepolis, Satrapi addresses the content through its depiction of Iranian children. The frame focuses first on young Marjane and then expands to capturing her entire class. By telling the story through the eyes and thoughts of a young girl, in the middle of Iran’s revolution and crisis, it serves as a way

In fact, by attempting to glamourize suffering by portraying it superficially, writers may lose the connection with us that appreciates literature. Instead, what we are left with is an over extended attempt to glorify suffering, or hide it within a guise of reality that is too savage to be true. Instead of the appreciative feeling that reality imbues within me as a reader, I am left with a sense of disgust, confusion and dissatisfaction. This feeling almost overwhelmed me while reading Adiga’s “The White Tiger” and it tainted my experience with the book. Adiga had written the novel without any firsthand experience in the rural areas of India to which his main character referred to as the darkness. Instead, being of a higher class, his accounts were based on second or third hand experiences which do not adequately depict the lower class’ realities. I found the following depiction of India’s ghettos both farcically unrealistic and eventually

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis is an expressive memoir of her growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, the fall of the Shah’s regime and the Iran-Iraq War. The dictionary definition of a memoir is, the description of one’s personal life and experiences, and most writers use the conventional text format to write theirs but Satrapi has contributed to a whole new way of writing memoirs that may last for many generations to come. Unlike conventional memoirs, she uses the black-and-white comic book form to find her identity through politics and her personal experiences in Iran and it has become effective and relevant in today’s society because she is a normal person that has had to live through extreme circumstances. She gives you insight into her own mind with pictures instead of you trying to make sense of just words. In the novel, Marjane, Marji for short, is living in Tehran, the capital of Iran, during the late 70’s and early 80’s. She is smart and outspoken for her age and for a long time she was very religious which is a bit skeptical due to her parents being Marxists. Persepolis illustrates a memorable story of Marji’s life in Iran.

Taking place in the late 1970’s, Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” exemplifies a profound illustration of the county of Iran, including aspects of its people and political structure. Unlike a conventional composed novel, the story of Persepolis is expressed through both textual and visual representation; otherwise known as a graphic novel. Through the experiences of the ten-year old character Marjane, the reader is exposed to historical events, movements, crises, and motives that occurred within Iran. Furthermore, the novel has gained much praise in its portrayal of emotions that occurred through the people of Iran. Although there has been tremendous support of the account of Marjane, there have been a few critics of the novel, attacking its overall literary value. For instance, New York’s Ithaca College student paper called The Ithacan, slammed the role Persepolis had on the literary society. In fact, they went as far to say that the novel “...is worth broaching but its literary value, in terms of building vocabulary and furthering comprehension, falls short.” An absurd statement, to say the least. Not only is Persepolis of literary value, it is a glimpse into the past. It allows the reader to understand the various conflicts that the people of Iran were facing. Through the account of Marjane, the audience is exposed to elements of Iranian history, gender roles, religion, and political fluctuation.

The perceptions of female equality in a society may differ depending on the culture of a woman’s native country. For instance, in the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi is trying to discover who she is as young girl in an oppressed society, in the middle of a war-torn Iran before and after the Islamic revolution in the 1980’s. In Persepolis, Satrapi learned to empower herself and others through the small victories of self-expression. Stratpi's parents send her to Austria for opportunities that would be denied to her based on the mere fact of being a female. Through the oppression she experienced, Satrapi's independent nature flourished as she became a figurehead for feminism in a post-revolutionary Iran. The fight for women's equality is a thriving issue in today's global society and Satrapi uses her novel to comment on the social, mental, and political oppression that women face after the Islamic Revolution.

In today’s society, comics are not given the same respect as novels in the literary world. Although comics are more visually driven, they still encompass the basic literary structures. Some tools include a story arch, themes , and symbolism. Comics actually provide more of these literary tools than conventional art in order to display the artistic intention of the author. The saying “ a picture is worth a thousand words” is quite fitting for Art Spiegelman's graphic novel The Complete Maus. Spiegelman uses Anthropomorphism as a tool to allow readers to digest the history of the holocaust while keeping the integrity of the real story. Together with using a graphic novel as a medium, Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences is brought to life. Art executes this precisely with using dark imagery,provide hidden symbolism, themes, and keeping true to the story both in dialogue and drawings. While keeping in mind that the holocaust is something to embrace and remember, not something that should be monetized.

The world is chock-full of different cultures, religions, and political ideals. These forces are a part of many childhoods, forcing the young to decipher how they want to incorporate aspects of these principles into their identity. Marjane Satrapi similarly found herself experiencing this difficult process throughout her childhood. In her graphic memoir, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi poignantly portrays how the distinction between Western and Iranian cultures helps shape her character in the midst of a torn society in order to display the clash of cultures and its process of molding Satrapi’s childhood in Iran.