1987 Cannes Film Festival

Persepolis, a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi, is about Marjane’s childhood during the Revolution war in Iran. The memoir begins in her hometown of Tehran, where she is exposed to the devastating war effects and changes in both home and public life. Her innocence captures a child's-eye perspective which… She comes from a family filled with activists, and much of her way of thinking is influenced by her family. Throughout the scenes in the graphic novel Persepolis, readers gain a powerful understanding

Marjane Satrapi develops the theme that war and violence in countries takes an unjustifiable toll on society in the novel Persepolis through the abstract panels, closure between panels, and motif of the veil. Marji, the protagonist, experiences both internal and external conflicts while growing up in war-torn Iran. She is heavily influenced by her avant-garde family and a deep down desire to become the next Prophet. Marjane endures the rule of the Shah, the Islamic Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq war

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis published in 2003, introduces readers to the lifestyle Iranians lived in the 1980s when political, and religious conflict in Iran began with the start of the Islamic Revolution. In the beginning of the graphic novel we see ten year old Marji, the protagonist of the story. Marji is seen wearing a veil like her fellow classmates. It is clear to the readers that Marji and her friends do not like wearing the veil because they are seen using the veil in a manner

Marjane Satrapi “You cannot draw someone crying, and in one culture they think that he is happy” (Marjane Satrapi). Born in 1969, Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian graphic novelist who is known for her autobiographical comic, Persepolis. In the two-part story, Satrapi recalls moments from her childhood in revolutionary Iran to the struggles of her early adulthood. Being much more than to educate readers about the revolution and repression in Iran, Satrapi’s Persepolis tells a story of challenges faced

In the graphic memoir Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, the citizens of Iran are divided into three separate classes; the lower, middle, and upper class. These distinct social classes determine the citizen’s life opportunities and freedoms. For instance, Iranians are advised to stay within their social classes and not interact with the lower class. The story takes place while Iran is engulfed in a war with Iraq and also facing a national rebellion. In times of war, it is important that a country must

The genre of both movies is autobiography, in which consist of multiple problems and solutions that deal with a whole person life. In Persopolis directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud, tells about the act of misery and destruction from a young girl point of view name Marjane Satrapi and she will be narrating the story,. When she thinks that everything is going well, it just ends up being worse for her and the home country such as wars and revolution. Marjane was trying to live a good life

There are certain countries that are ran through dictatorship, they abuse the power they have to the country. In the story, The Complete Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi, she changes the view towards Iran through occurrences and eastern fundamentalist ideas. In 1979, there was the Islamic revolution in Iran. This year was the year that was going to have many changes to the country. In chapter one of the Veil, there are characters and their freedom of expression being repressed as well as the

membership in a group and the relationships defined within that group. How then, can we understand a film such as Yi Yi, which centres around the gatherings of a wedding, birthday, and funeral, but makes little effort to show the food, consumption of food, or even the successful gathering of the family without bickering or trauma? Through understanding the lack of on-screen food, but with a film still focused on food-based events, we can look at what food in Yi Yi signifies in a larger thematic scale

'To Build a Fire';      In Jack London's, 'To Build a Fire';, it is obvious to see that as the story progresses, the man becomes more bestial. However at the same time the dog seems to gain the human quality of good sense. This quality of good sense, which the dog acquires, allows it to away from the same fate of the man. There are many examples of how this is portrayed as the story makes headway.      The first example of how the man becomes more

Unknown Forces and Their Impact The books, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Road, seem to be completely different from each other for various reasons. One takes place in the south during the early 1900’s while the other takes place in the future after an apocalyptic event. However, both books share a similar idea. In both books the main characters have spiritual connections with an unknown force that is the main cause of both their misfortune and their happiness. Overall, both authors from Their