Marjane Satrapi

accident. This is true for Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis. This story follows a young girl growing up during the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. The revolutionaries were pushing for a more fundamentalist Islamic republic. Under this new government, gender roles were enhanced. Women and men were separated in schools and women were forced to wear the veil. Men were given power or indoctrinated and sent off to fight in war. In her book, Persepolis, Satrapi represents men and boys

The Gold Threaded Dress Carolyn Marsden’s book, The Gold Threaded Dress, follows the life of a young Thai girl named Oy as her family is forced to move neighborhoods because of the cheaper rent – placing Oy at an entirely new school. She feels like an outsider at this new school because there is nobody that looks like her and she is constantly reminded of that because her peers mock her ethnicity daily. She wants nothing more than to fit in with the popular girls at their “clubhouse.” She gets that

supported. However, after the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970’s, a new theocracy was formed, and it deprived the Iranian women of their precious freedom. In the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi and the graphic novel Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi, the lives of the Iranian women after the Iranian Revolution are illustrated to inform people of what they are going through. The text and the graphic novel both reveal vividly that they are living a terrible life due to the laws their new government

Marji had many aspirations for herself because, at the beginning of Persepolis, Marjane felt like she was going to be the only women prophet at the age of six years old. In 1979, the Islamic Revolution took place and it was mandatory for women to wear the veil at school, many people were for it and against it. Everyone always wondered why they had to wear the veil. In chapter one, “The Veil”, she said, “I want to become a Prophet because of their family maid, Mehri, did not eat with them like a regular

Location and childhood are two major components that make up someone's identity. A person is shaped by the world around them and how they see themselves within it. For Marjane in Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud), this is rather difficult as her identity has been formed both through her life in Iran and the liberal, western political views held by her family. The film portrays her childhood in Iran and her teen years in Austria, through a simplistic form that show the differences in

revolutionary. They honored him like a martyr while carrying him. Then an old man was carried out and was called a martyr by the crowd. They soon start chanting the “The King is a Killer.” Rebellions like this would happen every day or something similar. Marjane then goes through another negative moment because of the revolution. The difference between social classes, this historical moment shamed her because of her family’s social class standing and what they had. She feels bad because her family is basically

The Voices is directed by Marjane Satrapi and written by Michael R. Perry released in 2015. The movie was focusing on the importance of mental illness, crime and even romance. It touches comedy to horror. There were mixed reviews in the public getting both good and bad reception. The Voices is about a man named Jerry who works in a factory, he has a mental illness schizophrenia which makes him hallucinate and hear voices. His mental illness developed from young due to his abusive father. Jerry from

Persepolis: The book Persepolis is an book by an author named Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis teaches people a lot about Iran during the times around 1979, around the time of Iran's revolution. The book tells about the time when the people were losing their freedom there. During these times, women there were forced to wear a headscarf. In my perspective, people should be able to wear and do whatever they like. The book taught me a lot about many things I did not know about the past in Iran. It is about

requires incredible strength, there are those determined individuals who muster the courage to be strong and carry on. We especially see this courage from children who are affected by war, like Marji and Omovo. In Persepolis, a graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi tells her experiences of the Iranian war from her perspective as a child. She uses the convention of style to portray it, and how she does not know that her childish ways could get her in trouble. In In the Shadow of War, a short story, Ben Okri

Persepolis, a graphic novel enriched by the autobiographical narrative of Marjane Satrapi, covers her coming of age in the politically unstable Iran in the 1980s. Specifically, the novel concerns defining events in Marji’s character development and in accordance, her ideological perspectives; the Iranian Revolution followed by the rise to power of the fundamentalist Khomeini (1979), the Iraqi-Iranian War (1980), and personally, her uncle Anoosh’s death. Moreover, Marji’s contrasting perceptions of