Filter Of Innocence In Persepolis

People grow up in different way, affected by many different things as they grow and mature, during the process people change perspectives and ideals. In the book "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, a middle eastern girl who is coming of age, finds that her environment changes her as the country that she is in goes through an unstable violent state. With the rise of multiple changes, Marji’s family must learn how to adjust to the changing times. While Marji becomes a bystander to the persecution, violence ,and revolution, the main theme of the book is stay true to one’s self and forming one’s true identity through their own will. Marjane Satrapi shows how the quirky, but simple and straightforward communist child in a changing world to a grown young adult who is confused about herself and the world around her.

Children are impressionable, but especially when they are very young. They soak up the world around them like sponges in water. However, in Persepolis, this impressionability mixed with their innate innocence can cause them to misconstrue the world around them. For example, after hearing that Ramin’s father was in the Savak ( the secret police of the Shah regime), Marji convinced her friends to “Put nails between [their] fingers like American brass knuckles and attack Ramin” (45) because it would be honoring “The name of the dead million” (45) who had died during the many protests and fights. Marji and her friends were just doing what they felt was right based on what they had seen and heard from their parents. This innocence demonstrates the naivety a child’s mind can have about the

As we know, “Persepolis”, takes place during the Islamic revolution in Iran. In this duration of time, many protests are being held against Shah. These protests include several angry adult and children. To an average person, such as you and me, it can be considered strange to us that children are involved in protests such as this one. This is because many children who live in our country, do not take a big interest into this country’s politics when compared to the way MaryJane and other kids in “Persepolis” do. For example, when MaryJane’s says, “Tomorrow there’s going to be a meeting against fundamentalism”, MaryJane quickly responds with, “I’m coming too”. Her immediate enthusiasm to attend a protest proves that she wants to be involved

People have a strange way of dealing with conflict. People use deceit, manipulation and even other people as a way of creating conflict. The same way these things happen in real life, the same happens with characters in literature. In Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited”, characters do the strange thing of using their own children as a way of pushing other others into their past, a method to hurt them. Here we will observe the roles of children in each story and how they are used by other characters. Symbolism behind the characters will also be analyzed in each story.

Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi In the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the journey of Marji’s understanding of martyrdom matures from the naive concept of glorification to horrid reality through several instances such as the death of the old widow’s husband which makes Marji realize that people will falsely mark people as martyrs to strengthen their cause, the loss of Uncle Anoosh makes Marji experience what it is like to lose someone close to her, the deaths of young boy soldiers and Niloufar’s execution help make Marji realize that martyrs can be of any age. In the revolution within the novel, martyrs were often used as “fuel” added to the fire.

Many people in our society don’t always agree and see things the same way, and it is important to realize that this will happen because many people have different perspectives. As a matter of fact, the personal nature of the story, Persepolis, is portrayed through the images of imperialism, gender roles, and religion. These are also the main concepts and themes that Marjane Satrapi has to overcome and deal with in this story. Throughout the story Marjane experiences many conflicts of the nation, her home and herself while watching Iran being controlled in the process of being imperialized.

We felt her fear while reading this tale about what it was like to be a progressive woman at this time, ultimately connecting us to her experience. Another very important theme in Persepolis is the loss of innocence. In the photo a little girl is sitting on Santa’s lap, and he is telling her that he is not real. The photo demonstrates the theme because when finding out Santa is not real happens, it is a huge loss of innocence. An experience like that is similar to when Marjane found out her neighbors, the Baba-Levy’s, had died in an explosion from a bombing. “No scream in the world could have relieved my suffering and my anger” (Satrapi 142). Marjane had a deep connection with her neighbors. When they passed, she was overwhelmed with grief. She felt the same emotion when her beloved Uncle Anoosh died. “Shut up you! Get out of my life!!!” (Satrapi 70). This is what Marjane said to God after her uncle passed away. She had no one to blame for these major losses so she pinned it on God. After experiences like these, she was not just a confused little girl anymore, she was now a realist. These stories helped us build a strong and effective personal connection with Marjane’s experience. She used sterling examples to help us feel her pain and gave us a better understanding of what it is like to lose someone important.The

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is a autobiography graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. In book Marjane Satrapi depicts her everyday life as a child and young adult in Tehran, she shows and tells the readers about how life was like during the Islamic revolution through illustrated comics. In Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, the reader gets a sense of fear, family and freedom. Marjane Satrapi believes that those who suffer and had to leave their families and flee their homeland because of the repressive regimes should not be forgotten.

Stories and history become one of the most important aspects of one’s life. Through generations of people in the past and present, stories are passed down and are held to an extent to learn from the past. This way society is able to learn how to prevent what has happened in the past for the future. In the story Persepolis, Marjane learns stories about her family, friends, and government that help her find her identity. These stories not only help her find her identity but also give a realization on the importance of her life. By writing in the past and the present, we are able to see how the Islamic Revolution and corruption of Iran has affected her, her country,

The Complete Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi, an adolescent girl living in Iran during the Iranian Revolution. During this difficult time in her country’s history, Marji must learn to juggle the oppressive regime ideals and those of her own. As Marji begins to explore places outside of Iran, she has a difficult time figuring out who she wants to be. Marji has difficulties at first, but by the end of the novel her character realizes she must face the hardships in life in order to achieve personal development. In the novel Persepolis, Satrapi uses various literary devices such as symbols and comic relief throughout the novel to suggest individuals shouldn’t let others dictate how and the in which they should live.

In the novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi illustrates to the reader the relationship between Marjane as a child, and her mother. Satrapi also shows us how she formed her own beliefs rather than following her parents’ beliefs. Certain elements like the size of a panel show the importance of these scenes. She uses literary tools such as size of panels, size of frames, graphic weight, and large illustrations to better illustrate relationships and communicate meaning.

This story has a very interesting narrative style, as the narrator is a child telling the story from her perspective. Marjane Satrapi’s perspective as a woman, a child, and a member of a politically involved family greatly affects her story, Persepolis, in multiple forms such as how it is told and the information included and excluded. Satrapi wrote this story from the perspective of herself as a child, which was her age when she experienced the events in this story. A lot of her views and opinions are slanted for several reasons, which then affects the way she writes and tells the story.

In Iran, full of corruption, citizens want change. Thousands of people, young and old, are dying due to their different beliefs. Nonetheless, people continue to fight for justice and express their opinions. The graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, explores a child’s perspective of the Iranian Revolution. Marjane sees the violence and lives through the terror of the Revolution, but she tries to fabricate the best out of the horrible situation. Throughout the book, the reader begins to see how children become involved in expressing their opinions. In Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, the author explores Marjane's development from a naive, biased girl to an involved citizen, in order to illustrate how the Iranian Revolution

While reading the rest of “The Complete Persepolis” I found myself shocked by how fast the second part of the novel went especially for the fact that so much happened to her in the second part. One of the most interesting chapters I read was “The Vegetable” because of the drastic change that she made to her image. This was when she was around sixteen years old which, is around the time that most teens decide to change their appearance or something to make them stand out more to their peers. Satrapi went so far as to cut her hair extremely short “As if my natural deformity wasn’t enough, I tried a few new haircuts a little snip of the scissors on the left.” ( Satrapi 190) She went so far in the disguise that she started to hangout with a different crowd because she wanted to forget everything about her past. What I found that was interesting, was that even though she was hanging out with the "school's lackeys" Satrapi would still follow her own morals. When the other teens would go out and smoke a joint, she would think about her mother and father said about the vegetable boy. Even though she wasn't around her

In Persepolis 2, Marjane is set on a journey of self discovery while living away from her home in Iran to escape the war. She experiences many obstacles varying from finding her self identity heartbreak and isolation. All of these obstacles would eventually lead to a very confident Marjane. MArjane lives in Vienna for most of her adolescence and so it is at this time that she is truly on a journey of finding who she is as a person and developing herself. Upon living in Vienna, Marjane discovered that Vienna is very different from her home of Iran and because of this, she assimilated herself into this new society while distancing herself from her Iranian culture. In her final days of living in Vienna she becomes homeless and it wasn't until this moment that she is notified that she is welcome to come back home to Iran. When she returns home to Iran she discovers that not only has she herself changed, but also how much her home of Iran has changed as well. Modern Iran is similar to Marjane, regarding their similar journey of self discovery and the many challenges that they have both faced.