Graphic novels depend on the text and illustration to present the information. If you were to just have one without the other, information could be misconstrued. Having the illustrations helps the reader paint a picture of what the text is relaying and up clear confusion in the text. Graphic novels usually portray characters that allow you to see their face, which tells a story within itself. Facial expressions are useful not only in graphic novels, but in everyday life because they can allow you
Introduction Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist, said “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” In The Complete Persepolis, it is clearly seen that when a standard is set for women’s attire, restrictions of other freedoms come along with it. Throughout the book, the author, Marjane Satrapi, recounts her life in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and the difficulties she encountered. She struggled with restricted freedoms, strict
There are many things that happened in the book Persepolis. The lenses that we read this book through the most is Gender Theory. This book talks about war in Iran, revolution, gender and much more. This book is about a young girl name Marji who have to face and see many terrible things happened in her home country in Iran. A few examples of gender theory, it can be read through this book is when Marji mother have been insulted by men on the street, when the Guardians of the revolution took away
war. In today’s society, ideas of violent loss and trading life for country seem like issues in an army’s world. During the Iranian revolution, loss and suffering were woven into the fabric of all Iranian lives. In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis, she argues that Marji’s developing views on death and martyrdom serve to personalize our perspective of war. From the beginning of her story, Marji is suspended in limbo between two clashing ideological worlds. Akin to many elementary aged children
to comic books. Graphic novels are like comic books in some ways such as the layout, but graphic novels tend to be longer and have more of a serious subject matter. When you asked me to read this graphic novel Persepolis, I was skeptical considering the issue. What I did find, is that it was not as painful as I had imagined. The setup Satrapi used, helped me to understand more of the text than if I had read a book form. I think that you should use the graphic novel format for your new book because
Truong Dao Period 4 Persepolis Novel Analysis Why don’t some people like to read? That is because they don’t like looking at a wall of texts on each page. Having a book with hundred pages of text and words can cause some readers to not like reading. That is why many readers prefer reading graphic books or novels. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. Satrapi choose to tell her story in graphic novel
The differences between The Martian, by Andy Weir, and Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, are often straightforward. However, with more attention to detail and analysis, the similarities become quite pronounced as well. First, in The Martian and Persepolis setting strongly influences the characters and their experiences. The setting themselves are quite different as The Martian takes place on Mars, while Persepolis takes place in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. However, both texts have placed
Persepolis is structured as a graphic novel because Marjane Satrapi was able to use graphic weight, emanata and the organization of panels, to benefit her story. On the page that I chose to take a deeper analysis of Marji’s uncle Anoosh is allowed his last visit with Marji before he is sent to execution. Marji goes to visit him, and they both know that he is being put to death but Anoosh is the only one who speaks and tries to tell Marji that it's going to be okay because he was fighting for something
Persepolis In graphic memoir Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi illustrates the eventful life of Marji, an Iranian girl’s living most of her life in Tehran, Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The author commences her story as child and creates a timeline of series of events as she enters adulthood. Marji, represents many disenfranchise women, as she faces discrimination, exile, and confusion in her own country. Uniquely, Starapi’s work can be a justification to prove Scott McCloud’s design theories in
the text for analysis: Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi Part of the course to which the task refers: Part 3: Literature – text and context My critical response will: • briefly outline the limitations and control of freedom during the revolution • discuss the implementation of feminism on the Iranian women • reflect on the effects and damages of the war • consider two different interpretations from readers of different culture, Iran and Australia Written Task 2 Persepolis is a graphic book illustrated