Marjane Satrapi

The first part of Persepolis adventures into the life of Marjane Satrapi during pre and post-revolutionary Iran alongside the Iran/Iraq war, as well as the political and social changes that accompanied the war. Due to the intense content of the book it was surprising that Satrapi wrote in such a blunt and direct manner. Satrapi shows her direct and to-the-point style when she draws and talks about the torture of those people taken to prison during the revolution (54). The drawing is showing how graphic

function is to divert, but it may also contain political messages or themes. Some examples of literary texts include Cervantes' Don Quixote, the English classic Beowulf, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Additionally, Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is also considered literary texts. One of the characteristics that the book Persepolis and The House on Mango Street have is that they have a purpose of telling a story. Much to my surprise

challenged with others. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird (T.K.A.M) and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis, while set in different time periods, explore similar issues of discrimination which are shown through techniques used by the authors. In both books, Harper Lee and Marjane Satrapi have built their stories around young female protagonists, Scout a hard-headed and impressionable tomboy from T.K.A.M and Marjane from Persepolis. By having the stories be narrated from a child‘s perspective

Violence shapes the lives of people all over the world. The novels Maus, written by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi both depict the horrors of war and the violence many experience daily. Maus shows the violence that happened in the Holocaust through the lense of a survivor. Persepolis depicts the violence of the Iranian Revolution while we follow her life. Crude Violence guides the storyline of both Persepolis and Maus, and although they experienced different wars they have

Persepolis and Maus When people read graphic novels, they might get more sense and read it seriously than any novels because graphic or comic book are more attractive. They are easy to read but hard to understand. Maus and Persepolis are two graphic novels that was written many years ago, and they tell us stories about different culture and societies. Besides of the facts that both novels involved, such as revolution and war, they told us the main characters feeling about their counties and the

In the graphic novel, The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi demonstrates the evolution of the Iranian war and the revolution during this time through her own childhood experiences. Satrapi utilizes personal experiences and picture grids to help the reader visualize past events in her life and past events in the lives of generations before her. Her graphic novel adopts a passionate, non-fictional experience, and applies it to the historical events of our current generation and the pre and post

Mrs. Nasrine, Marjane's maid, is distraught over her son's life having a worth of a plastic key (Satrapi 99). Mrs. Nasrine's son is promised luxuries in the afterlife if they die in war (Satrapi 100). This simple view of a teenager’s life and their usage leads teenagers to rebel. Marjane's cousin, Shahab also recalls seeing the teenagers being thrown into the field and faced with immediate death (Satrapi 101,102). Iranian teenage boys are shown to be simply fodder to the Iran Iraqi War and while they

the use of graphic novel help Satrapi propel her idea? Persepolis the Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi’s at first impression looks like an unsophisticated comic book; however the book is much more intricate than it looks. It appears like the author Satrapi uses a graphic novel style to add to the stories and supplement profound thoughts what words probably cannot express in novels: layers of visual intuitions. However, does the use of graphic novel help Satrapi propel her idea? In the comic

In Marjane Satrapi’s short graphic novel Persepolis, Satrapi takes readers on a journey through the everyday life and struggles of Iranians following the 1979 revolution, and their fight for freedom over corrupt government rule. Satrapi portrays the major events that occur in her life growing up through the text, as the comic would lack emotion without her illustrations. Satrapi’s simple and intriguing images effectively convey emotion in the panels through the use of emanata, but the illustrations

infractions which go against their oppressors, even at the cost of torture and death. “They whipped me with thick electric cables so much that this looks like anything but a foot. Not to mention putting out their cigarettes on our backs and thighs” (Satrapi, 51). Upon hearing this, Marji loses the innocence of her childhood as she realizes that the outside world is not full of kind hearted people, like she used to believe. In Through Thy Bounty, the protagonist symbolizes the dehumanization of society