1987 Cannes Film Festival

From the very beginning of Persepolis we the readers know that Marjane Satrapi was no ordinary child growing up in 1980 Iran. While she did have the same confusion as to why she was veiled and separated from her male counterparts she did know what she want to be at the age of six. She wanted to be a prophet for childish reasons. She knew she was destined for greatness before the Islamic Revolution. The veil and separated classes marked the beginning of Iran’s political and religious unrest. Protest

The episodes in the Persepolis of the growing up a boy and a girl in the Iran is the wearing of the veil. The veil was a greatest different between the boy and the girls. They only make it mandatory that all the girls should wear the veil especially in the school, but the boys on the other hand there is no rules for the boys to wear the same veil. The girls were not happy about the veil, they said that the they have been separated them from their friends due to the veil. The have complained that

In her book Persepolis, Satrapi expresses through her own experience growing up in Iran, how class represents identity, and how giving children the knowledge of the presence of class gives them the continuum that it exists. To define, M.R Leary and J.P Tangney, in the Handbook of Self & Identity, define identity as is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks or expressions that make a person. Initially, class was presented to Marji when she learns about her family’s place in the system. To elaborate

Persepolis Essay #1 Marjane Satrapi is a girl who lives in a country ruled by a man not loved by the people. It is a place where many struggles happen and where she is forced to grow up and understand the things happening around her. The author of this book conveys the theme of forgiveness through internal conflict and her use of comics and images in the Persepolis novel. In the beginning of the novel, Marjane has her life turned around when the shah of her country, Iran, started passing many rules

In the animation Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi uses color in the beginning of the animation during her present day life and black and white for flashbacks or her past life. The majority of the animation is the story of Marjane’s life in the past so it is in mostly black and white. This is an interesting way of using color because in a way color is used as a form of timeline, there are parts of the animation that switch from present to past, so Satrapi just switches from black and white to color to

Marjane Satrapi uses different techniques to effect the reality of occurring events and culture in the graphic novel, Persepolis. The author uses social class, gender, and racial differences within the graphic novel to effect the reality of occurring events such as the Iranian revolution during 1979. Social class differences are effective in the graphic novel Persepolis because the way Marjane presents the information shows how everyone is treated differently depending on their social class. There

Identity before the Veil In the graphic autobiographical novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi reflects upon her life during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Satrapi’s black and white drawings vividly depict Marjane’s growth from childhood to adulthood during this turbulent time. Following the revolution, the government’s “cultural revolution” radicalizes Marjane’s life. The “cultural revolution” attempts in moving Iran towards to the new government's religious ideals. The most significant of

don’t actually know if Canadian news is positive 24/7. To guard against media paranoia, we have to analyse the probability of the story happening to us or someone we know and read between the lines to uncover the facts of the story. Even after the film, many questions are still left unanswered, ‘Why are there so many gun-related deaths in America?’ ‘Why do so many students shoot up schools in America?’ and ‘Why is Canadian society so different to America?’ these are just a few of the unanswered questions

In the graphic novel Persepolis the author Marjane Satrapi writes about her as a child living in a torn country. Throughout the graphic novel she mentions different ways in which the country is having trouble. When the Iranian revolution began several new regimes came about and affected everybody's way of life. Whether it was in the way they dressed or what they believed no one was left unaffected. With her use of imagery she brought to life in an artistic way how her story unfolded. I picked

Perspective of Persepolis Marjane Satrapi’s perspective in Persepolis is unique because of her gender, social status, and the danger around her. She is a young girl from a royal family when the Islamic Revolution begins in Iran. She experiences many traumatic events in her childhood but is shielded by a lot by her parents. Because of these things, her perspective is slightly altered and not entirely accurate. Being a female in Iran before the Islamic Revolution was not that different than being