Persepolis

Lastly, the movie omitted several characters from the novel, which some can be considered influential to Marjane's perception on the way she thinks life should be. The novel mentioned a maid name Mehri who was close to Marjane when she was younger. Mehri fell in love with a boy, but unfortunately couldn't marry him because her social status was lower than his. This enraged Marjane that social class can interfere with love and the movie didn't mention Mehri at all. Also there was a prisoner released with Siamak named Mohsen. Mohsen visited Marjane and her family when he was released form prison and he told them his stories about him being tortured. His stories made Marjane have a little fear, but inspired her to create a torture game from it. The movie mentioned Mohsen only when he died. Even though these minor characters didn't contribute a lot to the plot, in minor ways, they

Marji asked her parents if she could go, but they declined every time;however, Marji still snuck out and went. Marji and her maid Mehri proceed on with their plans and go. When they arrive, Marji sees first-hand how people are really being treated, and she does not like it. A little while after the demonstration, Marji decides she is going to wear her new jean jacket and new nike shoes. She gets caught and makes up a lie so she will not get into too much trouble. She wanted to express herself a little bit, and show her own style. She comprehends now that she cannot wear what she wants, and she becomes angry and disappointed. Marji is tired of having to be who someone else wants her to be, and always having someone holding her back. Because of everything going on, Marji starts to do everything her parents ask her to, and she starts rebelling. Marji’s school teacher started being rude, so Marji decided she had enough and stands up for herself. She accidently hits the teacher and gets herself expelled. This promotes a big change in Marji, because she seems as if she really does not care. The final event that changes Marji is the bombing in her neighborhood. She thought her house was her safe place, but the bomb was an eye opener to her that she really was not safe anywhere. Some of the events that change Marji are: Uncle Anoosh’s death, the demonstration, the Nike shoes, getting expelled, and the bomb going off.

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

Marjane expressed her dejection in the line “So much for wanting individual and social liberties. I needed so badly to go home” This is a big panel containing a mirror motive. The panel shows Marjane in a veil seeing her reflection in the mirror. She looks extremely unhappy. This is very significant as none of us can see how we really look unless we use a mirror. The mirror is the truth; it never displays false and fake appearance. It reflects who we truly are. Marjane was also seeking that truth when she looked into the mirror. She accepted the veil, and her identity because her current situation was

The historical background of Iran is the most important idea that influences Marjane 's novel. Mohammad Reza Shah was the leader of Iran from 1941 to 1979. During his reign, Iran was living a westernized life. He initiated a revolution called the White Revolution, which included permitting women to vote, the abolition of illiteracy, land rehabilitation and distribution of oil. Basically, everyone in Iran, including Marjane’s family, was living a westernized live during Shah’s regime. As Satrapi’s mentioned, she used to go to a non-religious French school, in which boys and girls were mixed. On the other side, there was a

Through their struggles Marjane and Beah share similar thoughts and views. The revolutions robbed each child of their innocence, forcing them to transform from boys and girls, to men and women. Looking to find their niche in the midst of chaos, they found

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

This story begins to drive the sense of emotion with the very surroundings in which it takes place. The author starts the story by setting the scene with describing an apartment as poor, urban, and gloomy. With that description alone, readers can begin to feel pity for the family’s misfortune. After the apartments sad portrayal is displayed, the author intrigues the reader even further by explaining the family’s living arrangements. For example, the author states “It was their third apartment since the start of the war; they had

For example, on page 5, the audience can tell the population of iran is split between wanting to make wearing the veil required and those who are opposed to the idea. Marjane demonstrates the emotions of the characters through the pictures in this example. She also uses pathos through speech bubbles to get her messages across. On page 6, when Marjane tells her grandmother that she won't feel pain anymore because she will become a prophet. These words show sympathy for older people and how

Through the eyes of Marjane, a precocious and open nine-year-old girl, is the hope of her people broken by fundamentalists that take power from the people, imposing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she deceives the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran-Iraq war, the daily fear permeates life thathat is

Over the course of the book, Marjane has switched from wanting to be a prophet to wanting to be a revolutionary. Marjane states, “At the age of six I was already sure that I was the last prophet. I wanted to be a prophet”(6).Then, she states, “The year of the revolution I had to take action. So, I put my prophetic destiny aside for a while”(10). In these two chapters, the reader can understand that Marjane has changed mentally as of; then, she wanted to be a prophet,

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

Then sirens start and Marjane’s aunt flees, leaving Marjane with her newborn son.

Lastly, as Marjane moves to Vienna and separates from her parents makes her feel out of place as if she didn’t belong. In the chapter Tyrol, Marjane feels she, “had a new set of parents… Lucia was [her sister].” The formation of her identity can be thought of as a pot or something that is cooking. It’s beginning to boil and she’s starting to reach the boiling point where it’s going to overflow and essentially her parents are like the lid that is keeping her stable, but all the confusion they create is like the fire and it’s being turned up and up. The minute that there’s no lid keeping her stable, she loses it and that’s when she developed the death drive. To define death drive, it is the drive towards death or self-destruction. We can assume

In her graphic novel Persepolis, we see how she attempts to assimilate to a western world, to accept sex as freedom, and to face all the challenges and troubles in the relationships. Although she went through a great amount of difficult times, these hard times had changed her life. After all, Marjane was very propitious to have the chance to go through the journey of self-identity, growth, discovery under the oppression of Islamic