Character Analysis Of Marjane Satrapi

Marjane’s outspoken personality helps her and hurts her in various ways. Marjane is around her family most of the time, so that affects her and makes her think more about what’s happening around her. She was affected by how her parents treated the maid, so she wanted to revolt against “the difference in social classes”. She has shown that in page 38 when she decided to demonstrate; this shows how her outspoken personality helps her to help others in a good way. Her outspoken personality also hurts her because of how she misinterprets some situations. For example, Marjane and her friends attempt to imitate the people around them by applying the physical violence that the people

For example on page 143 and 144, she starts to develop a rebellious personality after seeing the death of Neda Baba-Levy which made her not afraid of anything anymore. No matter how many times the principle yells at her, she still refuses to take the bracelet off and end up hitting the principal and getting expelled from the school. Then, even after her mom sent her to a new school, she still expose the truth out loud and disagrees with what the teacher is informing the students. These events shows how Marjane really became a rebel like she said and a bolder teenager who wants to have her own freedom. As the fourteen year-old Marjane slowly becoming a more serious rebel, Marjane’s parents made a few important decisions. First, they decided to tell Marjane about the other side of the society that she didn’t knew about. On pages 145-146, Marjane’s parents informed her about how the regimes treats the young girls that they arrest and prove to her that it was what happened to Niloufar. Although Marjane’s parents told her about the results that might occur if Marjane continues to act that way, her parents seems still doesn’t have the reassurance that they need. Therefore, they made another decision to send Marjane to Austria in order

During her childhood, Marjane was influenced by many different sources telling her many different things, including how she should act, how she should dress, and what was right and wrong. Her Uncle Anoosh, for one, was a hero in Ms. Satrapi’s eyes and she listened to the stories of his past with great interest. While Marjane greatly admired her Uncle Anoosh, her mother held a more important role in Marjane’s life, the role of parent and teacher. Marjane’s mother was an icon of independence and idealistic freedom for her daughter, as well as a voice of forgiveness towards the ignorant. This was important for Marjane while she was growing up because she was being heavily influenced by the world around her to believe things that were not true and to give up freedoms that most people today take for granted. While Mrs. Satrapi was very protective of her daughter, as seen on page 145 of Persepolis, she also allowed her daughter to venture out on her own at a rather young age, as seen on page 131. Marjane’s parents raised her to formulate her own ideas and to be obedient to her elders. This became an issue when the government of Iran changed to a fundamentalist government and strict religious ideals were imposed. When this happened, Marjane’s mother told her to wear the veil and to

Satrapi describes many other women throughout the novel who had an influence on her life and character as well. When she was young her maid, Mehri, fell in love with a neighbor but because she was not in his social class, the love was “impossible” as Marji’s father put it (37). This causes Marji to realize the despair social classes bring which leads Marji to her first demonstration and major act of rebellion (34-39). Marjane

The Satrapi family were really good people who always did what they supposed to do if they knew that it was the right thing to do. They believed that you should have the liberty to make your own decisions, which is why Marjane was so independent, brave, rebellious, generous, understanding. Marjane believed that you should always do what is right because every one is considered equal. Well even though Marji was taught that by her parents she soon learned that not everyone is considered equal according to what socio-economic class that they were a part of. When Marjane's family maid fell in love with the teenage boy next door, she did not see anything wrong with them both wanting to be together and get married. It's only when Marjane's parents found out about the maid's relationship that it was soon ended because her father told the young man that she was their

Marjane Satrapi is a girl that was raised in Tehran, Iran, and during that period she was born into the Islamic Revolution. Marjane goes through changes of her being safe to being harmed by what is going on around her and this has changed the way she thinks and sees things.

Satrapi changes and uses varying clothing styles and hair length as the story develops to give a sense that Marji is growing older as the story unfolds. (3, 4)

Satrapi's parents even took an avid part in the 1979 revolution. This might seem contradictory to anyone who knows Satrapi’s family. The Satrapi family are a group of an Iranian middle class. The family was able to afford a maid, and Satrapi’s father drove a Cadillac (Satrapi, 33). The family could also afford to take vacations and send Satrapi away for a better education (Satrapi, 77 & 148-153). One might think this privilege her family displayed is a conflicting action with her parent’s political views. However, the family maintains a long historical affiliation to leftist political activists. Satrapi’s Uncle Anoosh was imprisoned and then killed for his belief. Many of her family members were imprisoned or killed for their beliefs like her grandfather and (Satrapi. This dissonance between political belief and practice is a central tension of Marjane's childhood.

In addition, Marjane states, “For the first time in my life, I saw violence with my own eyes” (Satrapi, 76). Moreover, Marjane says, “With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown up” (Satrapi, 117). Satrapi does this as a symbol of rebellion towards her mother, Taji. Considering Marjane’s politically active family, a conclusion can be drawn.

Also, Satrapi struggled with a rebellious phase that caused her to get in trouble and possibly cause major ordeals. The introduction of the Iran Iraq War happened with not only consequences for Iran, but a lasting and influential effect on Marjane Satrapi. The Iran Iraq War is introduced on page 80 panel 3 (80/3) with the air invasion/bombardment of Tehran by Iraqi MiGs, gives us the first view of a lasting effect on Iran and Satrapi. Frustration is shown both by Satrapi and her father, such as when her father says “No! The bastards!,” and when she says “Those assholes!”

Marjane Satrapi creates powerful political comics with a comedic relief. As a self-titled “exiled person,” she pulls from her past experiences, as a young women growing up in Ihran, in order to fuel her creative thought process. Like all of us, Satrapi questions her thoughts and feelings with fears that she will be judged by others.

Marjane Satrapi is very religious. She prays or talks to her god every night. She believes that she is a chosen one of god, a prophet. In page 8, we find her ridiculed by her teacher and her friends for this calling. She's made fun of mainly due to a clashing of ideas. Most of the people in her area behold to the old ways of her religion. This is why she has so much resistance from her teacher and her classmates. The idea that she holds most dear is very important to her, and her parents wish her to have this dream, so their anger towards her teacher when the teacher asks her parents to come and speak with her is warranted. My parents wanted me to believe that I could be anything or do anything. They weren't wrong, but what they didn't tell

Marjane’s drawings are more than mere illustrations; they are drawn the way they are for a reason. Figure sizes throughout the book vary to show the importance or maturity of the characters. In the beginning of the memoir, Marjane is depicted as a small girl, considerably smaller than her parents and all other grown-ups that surround her. Though Marjane is very aware of her situation, and a lot smarter or conscious than other children her age, she is still childish and

The film is a sappy recounting of Marjane Satrapis's early childhood, adolescence and young adulthood living in and out of Tehran in the years following Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian Revolution. Marjane

Satrapi uses her graphic novel to tell us about her life experience during the Iranian Revolution. Although this was a violent time period, there were countless people, like Marjane that had no interest in violence. Marjane calls