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A movie-adaptation is the transfer of a written work. The most common form of a movie-adaptation is the use of a novel, such as the book "Persepolis", written by Marjane Satrapi, written as a childhood memoir. The story is about a young Marjane growing up in Iran during the Shah dynasty, Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq war during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Not only did Marjane Satrapi wrote the novel, but she also directed the film about the book. Sadly, the work of a movie-adaptation doesn't

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, makes important strides toward altering how Western audiences perceive Iranian women. Satrapi endeavors to display the intersection of the lives of some Westerners with her life as an Iranian, who spent some time in the West. Satrapi, dissatisfied with representations she saw of Iranian women in France, decided to challenge them. In her words, “From the time I came to France in 1994, I was always telling stories about life in Iran to my friends. We’d see

How Michael Moore Makes His Arguments in Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore in his latest documentary, 'Bowling for Columbine', has aimed his camera directly between the eyes of our American culture. Using the school shootings of 1999 in Columbine and Flint as a starting point, Moore documents the fear and hypocrisy that has come to define this American culture. I'm going to avoid discussion of the specific material presented in this moving film; I feel no need to reinvent

The Complete Persepolis: Translating Literature to Film Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis is a coming of age memoir depicted in graphic novel form. Satrapi illustrates her life as a young girl growing into an adult during and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran with very little narration and simplistic dialogue. It is interesting to see how so little can be said, yet, so much can be conveyed. In comparison, the film representation of the novel uses a separate medium to depict the same story

In the graphic novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows religion and authority to portray that women in the text are marginalized, excluded, and silenced. This graphic novel takes place during the Islamic Revolution, which influenced a lot of how women were treated. The women in Persepolis are marginalized, excluded, and silenced by restricted communication, forbidden to wear what they want, and not always having control of their actions. Persepolis demonstrates women being marginalized, excluded

Persepolis is an autobiography by the author Marjane Satrapi that tells us and teaches us all about her childhood up to her early adult years. This autobiography all takes place in Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi writes about her own coming of age experience throughout her novel. Satrapi shares about her experiences living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution that took place during 1979 as a young girl. Satrapi also talks about living her life a certain way and having

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is a vivid coming-of-age graphic memoir that chronicles the author’s varied experiences growing up during and after the nineteen seventy-nine Islamic revolution in Iran. In her introduction to Persepolis, Marjane explains her reasons for writing the novel, claiming that Iran was not only a country of “fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism” (Satrapi, introduction) and she hoped that by sharing her personal stories of Iran she would humanize the country to her western

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi depicts the childhood of a precocious young girl, Marji, during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Satrapi vividly portrays the story of Marji’s life from ages six to fourteen by using symbols of Western popular culture, which recur several times. In doing so, Satrapi forces the reader to question the impact of the West on the development of Marji’s character. Motif of Western popular culture illustrates Marji’s transition from childhood to adolescence, declaring that

Growing up at a Young Age During a person’s teenage years, one is most vulnerable to trauma that occurs around them. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane lives through a revolution in her own country. The story speaks to her loss of innocence during the revolution and how she goes through her life. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is going through the Holocaust with his father and he witnesses many major and scarring events. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah,