Persepolis Epilogue

In The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, she provides a detailed account of what it was like to live amidst the Islamic revolution. She does so by depicting her life through a series of comic strips, which allows the reader to gain a better understanding of expressions and emotions of the characters throughout the story. In this unique coming of age story, Marji constantly struggles with the pressure to conform to cultural norms, most notably in the three different schools she attends: her elementary school in Tehran, her high school in Vienna, and at the university in Tehran.

Everyone thought that the underworld was hot, they were wrong. The underworld was frozen, a perfect representation of winter. The only heat was the heat that they created. The dead didn’t need heat nor did they produce heat. The sun was a thing of memory for those months that she resided in her rightful place, beside her husband whom loved her dearly.

In the novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis) by Marjane Satrapi, this work takes place in Iran during the Islamic revolution (from Marjane’s childhood to her early adult years). When reading Persepolis, the audience can make inferences on how different life is here compared to Iran during the war for example the clothing, schools, place of religion, career goals, and the way kids view their heroes. (Jaffe Culture). In the work Satrapi frequently adds in details in the beginning explaining the changes occurring once the Islamic revolution started and her thoughts on the changes for instance the veil. Satrapi mentions that she didn’t understand the reasoning for wearing the veil or why they had to wear it to school, she also mentions that many of her friends also disliked it (Persepolis P7). Another change that Satrapi addressed was when Bilingual schools had been shut down due to the belief that they were a Symbol of capitalism (Persepolis P8).

Throughout the past few centuries there have been many different revolutions that affected different parts of Europe. Some took place a long time ago in France or in other parts of Western Europe while others were more recent and took place in Russia and other Eastern European countries. Many were violent and extreme while some were more peaceful but the goals were the same, to fight against an oppressor and to stand up for what they believed in.

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi explores the realities of her native land. She begins the story as a intelligent young pre-teen with a promising future. As she grows older she sees how cold the world is outside of her homeland as she lives through a near self-destructing phase of her life. She is capable of catching herself in this free fall with the help and guidance of her family a little while after returning home. In the story, her country continuously is fighting from freedom all the while she’s searching for her own identity. Throughout the book there are various things going on that can alter an individual’s point of view in search of their identity. To understand

Following the Iraqi bombing of the oil refinery in Abadan, a panel in Persepolis 1, on page eighty-nine, captures many Iranian families seeking refuge from the war by trying to flee northward, which Satrapi portrays with cars fleeing from the engulfing flames. The author depicts the Iranians’ cars absconding from the border cities with hopeful outlooks, however, the consuming flames overtake many of the cars, eliminating any chance of escape from the treacherous revolution. This panel contributes to the overall meaning behind this memoir since it represents the idea that no matter how hard one tries to flee the revolution, one cannot completely escape it. It foreshadows to the readers that even though the author, Marji Satrapi, eventually

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi, the only child of two Marxists, growing up during the harsh times of the Islamic Revolution, the overthrow of Shan’s reign and the calamitous emanation of the war with Iraq. Marjane relatives would support the revolutionaries by attending to political protests, including his uncle Anoosh, who she made a deep bond with after he returned from the U.S.S.R., for the cause that Iranians believed he was a spy. This bond does not seem to fade away, not even after he is executed. Marjane’s family made her become invested in the world of social activism, where she wanted to eliminate the inequalities and injustices, and where no one had to suffer. Her goals are not met when they start bombing Tehran, her hometown,

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The graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is a story about a young Iranian girl who struggles through the Islamic revolution and grows up from an innocent girl to a mature teenager. The protagonist, MJ, is born in such a turmoil: the government changes dramatically, women start wearing the veil, and everywhere demonstrators are protesting against the new government. When she is young, she is so loyal towards her god that she wants to be a prophet one day, but as she is confronted by so many injustices in her life, she gradually loses her faith towards her god. More significantly, after learning about the death of her uncle Anoosh, she totally loses her faith towards god. She eventually realizes how the theocratic

The first book of Maniane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” makes numerous connections to the hereditary nature of revolutions. Satrapi’s story (told from the perspective of a child) demonstrates how the interactions between children mirrored those of their parents during the revolution, and how the actions of revolutionaries were reflected in the actions of the younger members of society during this time. Satrapi’s writings on her peer interactions – particularly in the schoolyard or in class – demonstrate how the roles of parents were often reflected in the beliefs of their children and the opinions that their peers had of them. Both the boy with the counter-revolutionary father and the girl with the fighter pilot as a father provide insight into how parental roles were typically mirrored in their children; the boy was teased and hunted down by children who had revolutionaries as parents, and the girl was revered as a hero. Satrapi’s writings and recollections also demonstrate how growing up in such a war-filled environment normalized conflict for children, numbing them to it later in life. In this essay, I argue that Satrapi’s book provides evidence that the Iranian revolution, and continued change and conflict within the Middle East, is largely inherited from generation to generation. This is the result of children and youth learning to find a place within the conflict due to parents pushing revolutionary or counter-revolutionary roles onto them. Even if intentional pushing and teaching of roles does not occur, these children learn the same roles due to their constant immersion in a revolutionary environment. In addition to the hereditary nature of conflict in the Middle East, I argue further that continued changes and struggles within the region are fueled by the relatively easy access to interpersonal relationships with revolutionaries or soldiers – either within generations or between them.

In the graphic autobiography, The Complete Persepolis, the theme of identity is displayed throughout the novel, from the opening chapter, up until the last. The autobiography depicts the life of Marjane Satrapi from childhood to adult years, during and proceeding the Islamic Revolution. Throughout the novel, Satrapi overcomes many personal and physical obstacles, but none more prominent than her discovering her identity. As a child, Satrapi was forced to grow up faster than the average child because of the unfortunate circumstances that were happening in her country, which greatly impacted her self-esteem and self-identity. Even when entering adolescence and into adulthood, Satrapi still greatly struggled with finding her identity. Though Satrapi has grew up, moved across various settings, and attempted to adapt to different cultures, her struggle to find her self-identity has been a long, conflicting journey, making identity one of the main themes of Persepolis.

Persepolis and Realism “The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distracting myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules” (Satrapi 193). In “Persepolis 2: The Story of Return” Marjane Satrapi illustrates rhetoric into every panel presented in the novel. She conveys rhetoric by placing realism into every piece with guided drawings to help focus her perspective of the situations. Much of the focus is placed on Satrapi growing up and realizing her views of the free side of the world isn’t how she imagined it all to be. Satrapi alludes to many of the changes she faces as a refuge living and growing in Austria, and how many of the faces she felt comfort to in the past changed as well.

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, is a graphic novel based on the life of Marjane “Marji” Satrapi while growing up during the revolution in Iran (Islamic Revolution) and the Iran and Iraq war. Marji is the main character and the narrator throughout the entire novel. In 1980, Marji is ten years old and goes to a French middle school. A year earlier, the political revolution on the fundamentalists start a ‘cultural revolution’. This ‘cultural revolution’ affects Marji’s social and political values and ideas, her way of living, and her future. Bilingual schools were closed (symbols of capitalism), girls and boys were not allowed to go to school together anymore, and girls were required to wear veils to school. The veil was a controversial

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

One of the main theme’s of Persepolis is class conflict. Class conflict is also referred to as class struggle. Throughout the entire memoir, Marjane, her mother, and her father have to face the challenge of class conflict. In some specific chapters, the class struggle is referenced. The class conflict mainly affects social classes, and during the revolution and the war in the graphic novel, the social classes begin to divide the people, and soon, divides the entire country of Iran.