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For decades, Iran has been known to have conflicts with their people.  One girl named Marjane Satrapi shared her story for us to have greater understanding of her culture. As a result, Marjane’s culture went from being rebellious to following the fundamentalist. Furthermore, Marjane’s culture could not dress as western. Moreover, listening to music and partying was less common in Iran due to the strict environment. In Persepolis, Marjane’s culture identity is western culture but she is forced to

Loss of resilience is a common theme, especially in leaders trying to survive in a life of struggles. Whereas, the situations are different, Marjane Satrapi depict her mother, Taji Satrapi in “Persepolis” similar to the way Job is depicted in the book of “Job”, as both of them struggles to continually act according to their beliefs, they became overwhelmed by the misfortune that they had to endure. Eventually, this struggle forced them to give in to the opposing authority. Mrs. Satrapi in “Persepolis”

Persepolis is a very unique graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. The book mainly depicts her childhood growing up and the struggles she went through. She was originally born in Iran and growing up, there was a lot of war and hardships. She experienced a lot of death in her family, learning different things from them all. Once her parents decide to send her to Vienne, France; her life completely changes. She envelops herself in an alcohol and drug addiction. Now in the two different cultures

Persepolis is a memoir about Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the effects it had on her and her family. At the start of the Islamic Revolution Marjane was 10 years old and like any other normal 10 year old child, this stage of her life was full of uncertainty and misunderstanding. However, due to Marjane living in Iran during the revolution, the constant changing of personal opinions in not only her family but in the people around her, largely attributed

Generally texts create a fine line between freedom and captivity, but Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi distinguishes itself by avoiding this cliche. Freedom often represents positive connotation while captivity implies a negative response. Within Persepolis freedom and captivity run dangerously close, showing the true emotional turmoil of a torn country. taking place during the Iranian Revolution, Persepolis explores both perspectives and sheds light on why freedom and captivity cannot exist independently

Cairo my city, Lolita in Tehran, and Persepolis 2 how the author described the idea of rebellion was treated According to the text, in Cairo my city they were trying to force the middle east and north Africa to become a Muslim county. “The author states in 2010 the democratic reforms reverberated throughout the middle east and north Africa in a movement known as the Arab spring”. Cairo and two other women were on the boat headed home when Cairo had changed her mind and took the two women and ran

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

One of the more deep philosophical ideas that popped into my head while reading this story was the moral study behind Marji’s thoughts and what it stood to her. Persepolis presents storytelling in both literature and visual arts, the graphics drive a certain complexity to the story and give us a bigger character study to process. This is the state of mind an adult Marji wants to show to contrast her childhood stances with the stances the reader is thinking. Some small elements like the color, art

To live through a revolution is to live through major social and political changes. To live through a revolution as a child is to grow up early and lose your innocence as you’re forced to face the reality of the situation. Marjane Satrapi was no different. Through her graphic novel autobiography Persepolis, Satrapi was able to show her loss of innocence and how she was forced to mature during the socio-political changes on the Iranian Islamic Revolution.Satrapi also demonstrates how her internal

"Persepolis" involves a girl who is growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi which is the author and person of the book tells her life through her eyes. The book i'm reading "1984" Which Winston Smith is essentially growing in a suppress government. The two books that compare in which Persepolis is a graphical novel. The graphic novel is Marjane's life and her growing up in a debatable government. The book 1984 on the other hand goes in depth with the government and one man