Marjane Satrapi

IN WHAT WAYS IS THE WORK INTERESTED IN BEING REALISTIC? The book “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi is interested in being realistic in many different ways. To begin my essay, I want to point out that when we take a first look at the book we can realize that it is a real and authentic story. This autobiographical novel, illustrates the author’s childhood and the early adult years. Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran, the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution

has been created in most countries today it is very easy to take certain freedoms for granted: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, being allowed to wear what you want and many more. This is strongly portrayed throughout the text Persepolis By Marjane Strapi. She shows this by explaining all the rights and freedoms she wanted and wished she had, by telling of her parents knowing and understanding what it was like to have these freedoms and many other things. A specific time in which this theme

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is comical view of Satrapi’s life of growing up during the Islamic Revolution. The changes in Satrapi’s life give reader an opportunity for deeper understanding. Three symbols present in Persepolis are musical posters, the veil, and her bed represent aspects of her life. All these symbols affect the author internally and externally. In the end, the author not only learns about her country, but all the things she had to sacrifice in order for freedom. The first

he is recuperating from a mental illness. The reader gets a peak in his life and sees how Holden Caulfield, as a teenager, struggles with many aspects of life. Persepolis is a graphic novel which was written by Marjane Satrapi and published in 2000. The story is an autobiography about Satrapi who grows up in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, she has to encounter so much

Marjane presented Persepolis twice to a famous french director, but the second time he didn’t even recognized her and decided he loves her idea and becomes her co-director. Majane Satrapi is known for her creativity and talent, because she is not only a director, but a writer. She wrote Persepolis about her childhood and how the Iranian Revolution and the Iran- Iraq War affected her life. Marjane did an excellent job on the movie Persepolis, but do not be fooled by the changing color schemes and

In the novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, the author uses religion as well as cultural background to provide the reader entertainment, and to inform them as well. The author provides a detailed, and vivid setting for this novel. This delivers a different feel for readers, informing them the plethora of contrasts between where the novel is set, and where the reader is. In the novel, the author demonstrates how difficult, and different the standards and everyday life is in the 1970’s Iran

Peter Kropotkin once said, “America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.” Freedom does not completely protect one from oppression of any kind. Nevertheless, freedom seems to come with persecution of some sort. The choices we make identify the treatment we receive. In diverse parts of the globe, we meet numerous types of freedom. Nevertheless, they are alike for this liberty as a whole is

who did not survive, chronic small acts of kindness that are saving lives, whose cruelties record coldness still shakes us. It is a comic book masterpiece. Persepolis, a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the story of a woman who grows in Iran in the Islamic Revolution. Through the eyes of Marjane, a precocious and open nine-year-old girl, is the hope of her people broken by fundamentalists that take power from the people, imposing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and

The author Marjane Satrapi uses her younger self to talk about the conditions in Iran during the Iran revolution and Iran-Iraq War in her novel. Throughout the graphic memoir, Persepolis, Satrapi depicts rebellion as a major sub-topic. Satrapi implements the thematic idea that rebellions may occur if the government alters the natural rights of citizens to show the change coming upon them. Satrapi displays this thematic idea through comparative panels, graphic weight, and speech bubbles. The new repressive

Persepolis shows negative representations of revolution, imperialism, nationalism, religion, and their class system. The book Persepolis is a story from the point of view of a girl growing up in Iran during the Iran vs Iraq war. The girl’s name is Marjane Satrapi and she is a rebellious Islamic girl that doesn’t want to wear a burka and wants to wear westernized clothes. There are many examples of Iran being viewed in a negative light due to it being from a little girl. This image represents imperialism