As a child, we’re presented with ample information that is all relatively new to us. The knowledge acquired in childhood is given to us by our parents and relatives. This allows us to grow, but the influence of our family is what shapes our culture and beliefs. Although our parents believe this is the best culture to follow, we often find ourselves questioning it. This creates complexity within the acceptance of being part of one’s culture. Shyam Selvadurai and Marjane Satrapi, use this theme within their respective novels, Funny Boy and Persepolis to demonstrate the transcendence from innocence to experience. Both main characters are introduced as children that go through an evolution to reach adulthood. Culture challenges the characters …show more content…
( p. 46, Shyam Selvadurai) This quote demonstrates a change in Arjie’s perception. Moreover, the fact that Selvadurai implicates this quote at the beginning of the chapter is symbolic. He does this to symbolize a change in Arjie through the physical appearance of a supporting character. Furthermore, Arjie is caught off guard which depicts how fictional his thoughts on reality are. During the conclusion of the chapter Arjie’s perception of love and beauty is revolutionized through the “love life” of his Aunt. Arjie goes on to say “…I felt no pleasure, for I knew that, although everything would happen in the way I had dreamed there would be something missing. … I thought of the love-comics and how fervently believed in them, believed that if two people loved each other everything was possible. Now, I knew this was not so.”(pp.99-100, Shyam Selvadurai) This clearly indicates a change in perception in the young boys mind and this would be one of the first steps in the transcendence of Arjie’s character. Selvadurai effectively uses Radha Auntie and many other supporting characters throughout the novel in order to aid the main character evolve. Similar to Arjie, Marjie from Persepolis depicts evolution through the aid of supporting characters. In this novel, Satrappi uses many characters to evolve Marjie’s understanding of the world. For example, at the beginning of the novel, Marjie is introduced to her uncle Anoosh. He is branded as a communist under the Shaw’s
What pressures an individual to conform? Two short stories by Romesh Gunesekera and Amy Tan inform the readers of the effects that society and culture has on an individual. They introduce two characters whom are affected: Amy Tan, a teenage Chinese girl living in the United States, and a young Sri Lankan woman whose name is unidentified. Ultimately, society and culture affect an individual by pressuring them to conform as seen throughout “Carapace” and “Fish Cheeks” with the use of vivid language and profound narration.
“What goes around comes around, that’s what people say. So all the pain you caused me will come back to you someday” (Unknown.) The theme of “what goes around comes around” is exemplified in both the Grimm version and the Disney version of Cinderella, however the Grimm version definitely exemplifies the theme more effectively than the Disney version does.
Coming of age is a recurring theme that is universally known throughout many different pieces of literature. Whether it’s influenced on true experiences, childhood memories, or even based on one’s current juvenile reality, many of theses works have a correlation between them that include many similar ordeals and struggles that the character goes through in order to metamorphosize into taking their first step out of childhood. One prominent theme that often appears is how one experiences and faces a time of tribulation and other walls that stand in one’s path. In effect, hardships mature and enlighten one, causing the loss of something such as childhood innocence. Lastly, these three combined points finally lead to one’s metamorphosis out of childhood. All in all, these three factors take one out of childhood, and slowly allows one step out into the reality of this world.
Walt Disney’s Cinderella is adapted from the original fairy tale written in 1697 by Charles Perrault. There are some key differences between Walt Disney’s Cinderella and Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. In Charles Perrault’s tale, Cinderella’s father is not dead, but the father is controlled by the stepmother. Cinderella’s younger stepsister is much more polite than the older stepsister, who calls Cinderella Cinderwench. The king in Perrault’s tale hosts a two day Ball, which Cinderella attends with the help of the fairy godmother. During Cinderella’s preparation for the first night of the Ball, Cinderella helps the fairy godmother find a coachman when the fairy godmother could not find one. Cinderella’s glass slipper comes off on the second
Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya explores this concept through the perspective of a six year old
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)
Destruction of Society In the novels Persepolis and The Kite Runner, many motifs in relation to society are displayed. These motifs demonstrate how both authors’ present humans as being dependent on the society they live in. In Persepolis, the readers discover a girl named Marji, who refuses to obey the laws of the corrupted government and disagrees with the disparity of the social and economical classes. In The Kite Runner, despite his true beliefs, a boy named Amir tries fitting in with society, initiating the end of his friendship with his best friend.
This technique assists the reader in feeling casual and comfortable with the novel, as if they were friends of Satrapi, listening to her tell her story. Satrapi's tone is crucial to her telling of her story because it adds a sense of lightness and informality to the novel, with the intention to truly write her version of her life story. Likewise, the novel begins with Marji, the protagonist and a past version of Satrapi, as a young girl living in Iran, so the tone is more innocent and naïve. As she grows up, the narrator's tone is still conversational, but it is more sophisticated and experienced because she is increasing in age and developing into a woman. The novel in general is easy to read and very versatile because of its casualness which adds to the effect because it creates a comfortable environment for the reader and a gateway to connect with the main character, Marji.
Marjii has to take the extra step and stand up for what she believes in and has to change what beliefs she has set in stone and make her own beliefs. Marjii knows that what she does is not “the way” she is meant to live, but she also knows that the way that she is living is not the way in which is right. Satrapi demonstrates that the people may never know
INTRO……..Satrapi’s purpose in writing this novel was to convey to readers that one must embrace their cultural identity and family values to gain self-acceptance, and without this you are rejecting who you truly are.
Arjie is on the outside looking in, from both his family and tension filled homeland due to his sexual orientation and his ethnicity. From the very beginning of the book, when his parents find him playing bride bride with the girls from his community they became suspicious. Archie's parents, Appa and Amma, are embarrassed and have a deep concern that Arjie is gay. Appa and Amma try to take control of Arjie by attempting to convince him to play cricket just like the rest of the boys, in hope of manning him up. Arjie feels like an outsider in his own home, as his parents won’t accept him for being himself, and are constantly trying to change him. With Arjie being Tamil, he experiences being an outsider in his own homeland when the Sinhalese
Cultural Hybridity as understood by Homi Bhabha (1994, 1999) involves human beings as the creators, not the bearers of culture. Due to the individuality and the innovativeness of each human being it also follows that any particular culture cannot be concretely described in terms of its specific contents and constituents. “To my children’s children”, by Magona Sindiwe, is of critical significant in understanding the changing identity depicted in the story. The term is utilized as a part of a wide point of view in various scenes, which as it were, help the per user in taking in a few lessons in light of the setting or the plot of the story. In that capacity, the blend of various personalities in the story line, is of basic commitment towards drawing out the best of the social practices, accepts and demeanors of the groups crosswise over different back ground. Sindiwe story in the “To my children’s children ", is such an exciting portrayal, as the portrayal of a young lady experiencing childhood in a politically-sanctioned racial segregation stricken condition unfurls. For this situation, the young lady encounters a blend of social experience, desires and also culture stun. The story in the book, "To my children’s children” is a deep rooted story of Magona's life while in the town where they were raised, under the care of the colossal grandma, a matriarchal family (Whitehead). The general public and also the family is portrayed to be joyful,
Satrapi reinforces the lack of identity in the next frame, which recounts her ‘class photo’. The readers would not be able to identify Marjane from her classmates, as they are all veil and glum. Through caricature of these characters, the author is able to emphasize this element of
Humans are unique creatures simply due to the fact that every person grows up in a different environment. I know for a fact that the way I grew up is different compared to the way my friends grew up, and it is different compared to how others grew up and will grow up in the past and future. This paper covers the subject of sociocultural context, what it is, how it can impact a child, and how it impacted my own development.
As Persepolis is an graphic novel and ‘When I was puerto rican’ is a written memoir, they communicate with the reader differently. Firstly, they describe people and their actions in different ways. In Persepolis, the author shows people’s emotions through drawings. For example, when Marji is convinced by Shirin’s mother to go to a boarding school, she looks slightly evil in the drawings (The Soup, P. 160). She used the drawings to give a hint to the readers that she is not innocent and might have secret intentions. Whereas, in ‘When I was Puerto Rican’, the author describes people with literal and figurative language. For example, when she describes Mr. Barone, she writes, “He was short, with a big