Observing Marji's Loss Of Identity In The Film

The way someone acts or makes decisions says a lot about a person because it shows their personality, and defines a character. Grandmother plays a very large role in the family's life. Love and care is constantly displayed throughout the story, especially since their grandmother lives with them and makes strong connections which builds their relationships. Through the story the character of the grandmother

As the story progresses, the theme changes from being comical to being violent. Also, the reader's perception of the grandmother becomes more intense . As O'Connor said, "[t]here is a change of tension from the first part of the story to the second where the Misfit enters, but this is no lessening of reality" ("On" 176). The presence of the Misfit causes the story to become more of a mystery; therefore, the actions of the grandmother also become a mystery because the reader doesn't know what to expect from her. It is a surprise to the reader to find the grandmother become so sincere. The grandmother tries many traditional methods to keep the Misfit from killing

The grandmother in the beginning seems to be a very curious, kind, and old fashioned woman. As the story progresses she turns into this self-centered selfish woman. She appears like this in times like when she tells story’s (old fashioned) about her past experiences and the excited way she points out things (innocence and kindness.). I dislike that her curiosity is what lead the family to their death. Overall she remained the only character I liked so when she was killed I was left disappointed.

To begin with, the narrator’s emotional bond that grew with her grandmother was slow but impactful. One day she was sick and her grandmother had taken care of her, using homemade balm she describes as “sun shining through the darkness of your eyelids” (Viramontes 33). As a result of this feeling of care and warmth she became fond of her time with her grandmother. Out of all her sibling, she was the one that chose to visit her and help with chores. On the contrary to the beliefs of her sisters, the

She seems to know little about herself and how she has lived her life. In addition, Granny’s state of denial imposes hardships on those around her. It’s relevant in the story that she was tough on her children. Since she is in so much denial that she’s treated them harshly, they never get the acknowledgement of her wrongdoings towards them. At the same time, however, Granny’s deep-rooted denial is what has enabled her to continue living, thrive, raise healthy children, and even save the lives of sick people and animals.

He acts like a mirror. He lets whatever the Grandmother says bounce right off him. He never really agrees with her or disagrees, and in the end he is the one who kills her. His second to last line, “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life,”(O'Conner 425). might be the way O'Conner felt about most of us alive, or how she felt that God must feel about us. The third, and final stage of the Grandmother is the moment of recovery. She finally sees The Misfit for who he really is, a person just like her. He is not someone who was made by his social class. He is a simple human being just like her. At this point she sees herself in relation to everyone else. She finally realizes that her class does not make her. Society makes the class, and she just fits into it. She shows this by claiming that The Misfit could be one of her own beloved children.

(7). Her grandmother also buys her books to help educate her on what is going on in their country (28). Both of these actions display that her grandmother wants her to be educated and also wants Marji to do whatever she desires and teaches her that she truly can be whatever she wishes. Before Marji leaves to go to Austria, her grandmother tells her “always keep your dignity and be true to yourself” (150). This is something that continually goes through Marji’s mind as she begins to make mistakes, being true to herself is something Marji is constantly struggling for and becomes a major theme throughout the novel. In the end of the novel Marji learns how to be true to herself and her ambitions as she divorces Reza and moves to Paris, which was an action heavily based on the ethics and teachings of her grandmother.

The grandmother's family does not seem to be united and happy. The characters are egoistic and self-centered. For instance, the grandmother has no desire to go to Florida, but nobody takes her opinion into account. The words of one of her grandchildren, "Afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go," show disrespect towards her age (O'Connor 34).

Marji finds the many fundamentalist rituals forced upon her at school such as torture sessions very stupid and makes fun of them, even to her teachers. “After a little while, no one took the torture sessions seriously anymore… ‘The martyrs! The martyrs! Kill me!’ ‘Satrapi! What are you doing on the ground?’ ‘I’m suffering can’t you see?’” (97). Although Marji protests against the restrictive ethics and the Shah’s rule, subconsciously she is really protesting against the elders, both in the government and in her house. While she rebels against both in different way, they almost represent the same thing to her. “As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I’d stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. It was awful but this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.” (117). Because of the Iranian revolution, Marji feels a need to grow up and experience things that are way beyond her level of understanding. She forces herself to mature in order to deal with everything in the adult world.

Only when the grandmother is facing death, in her final moments alone with the Misfit, does she understand where she has gone wrong in life. Instead of being superior, she realizes, she is flawed like everyone else. When she tells the Misfit that he is “one of [her] own children,” she is showing that she has found the ability to see others with compassion and understanding.

A literal interpretation of the grandmother portrays an elderly southern woman attempting to maintain the proper and genteel values of the South. The grandmother places great importance on her appearance and the opinions of others. This importance is revealed at the beginning of their journey when the story compares the grandmother, a reflection of the past, to the daughter-in-law, a reflection of the present:

Marji's role in life changes drastically throughout the novel. In the beginning, as a young child, Marji believes that she is a prophet. As the story progresses and they the revolution continues, Marji begins to feel dismay towards the revolution and towards God. Later in the novel, Marji’s mother also feels sadness. Her former revolutionary spirit is gone and replaced with fear. When Marji’s principal calls the house to complain that Marji disrespected of the teachers, her mother in the past would have been proud, but this time around she fears for her daughter and goes on to explain the things that happen to girls in Iranian prison. Her mother had given up optimism and established that war

Grandma is important in the story because MaryAlice live with grandma until her family get back on their feet.Grandma teaches MaryAlice many important things for example ,like how to skin a fox,steal pecan from old man Nyquits ,and teach her how to get things she want. It doesn’t say that grandma teaches those thing in the book, but it shows that grandma want MaryAlice to learn how to do those thing .Maybe she just want to spend time with MaryAlice.Grandma is like the glue that make up book becaused woman who can makes traps and rebuild thing .

The author uses “Great Aunts” (G.A)to praise her aunts and also show that the aunts play important roles in the narrator’s life which indicates the whole story would be around the narrator’s family. A family is an important group for everyone, it’s always a reliable resource to rely on. So this title intends to use emotional feeling to attract readers. In “G.A”, the author, Margaret Atwood used the first person to set a brisk tone to describe the close relationship among the narrator's family. The span of the time period in the story is from the narrator’s childhood to 30-years-old which shows her aunts’ accompany until she accomplished her dreams.

Besides focusing on Marji’s own troubles of growing up during the Revolution, she also remarks her parents’ struggle with the ruling Islamic Party. She comes to realize that her parents’ beliefs are opposite to those of the regime. While her parents drink alcohol, have parties and enjoy a wealthy lifestyle, the Guards of the Revolution control this behaviour. Marji´s parents share her rebellious spirit: they also want to have secret parties, break the law and dress however they want to. In one frame Marji helps her mother to empty the alcohol down the toilet, since the police threaten to search their department (p.110). In another frame, Marji’s mother puts tape on the windows as a safeguard against the Iraqi bombings, and black curtains to prevent the neighbours from seeing their parties (p.105) There is a parallelism at play between the upper classes of the revolution and the lower classes, although her parents revolt on a daily basis and share the same beliefs, upon returning home they can still try to enjoy secret pleasures in relative safety, whereas the lower classes are not afforded any means of escape.