Marjane Satrapi

Graphic images affect how any reader sees or reads an image. In a book where a character gets beat up, a bloody image will affect the reader more than an image where there is no blood. Marjane Satrapi’s use of graphic images in her book, “Persepolis”, affect how the reader sees social classes, loss of innocence and gender roles in Iranian culture. One might think a situation is not a big deal, but when a graphic image portrays the situation, a reader truly sees the importance of the situation.

“And then suddenly in 1980, we found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends” (Satrapi 4). Marjane Satrapi wrote about Iran in her childhood years and it made Iran seem like a dangerous place. Marjane gave a negative connotation of Iran in the book Persepolis but it illustrates accurately how life in Iran was like from 1979-1983 as she experienced revolution, a new Islamic regime, and danger. Persepolis starts out in a revolutionary time period where the citizens of Iran are tired of the

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 beliefs changed due to the changes she faced from other external influences. As a child, Satrapi witnessed events that forced her to grow up and take action against

Jin Miung Kim Ms. Park English 10 10/28/30 Different Classes, Different Conditions “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status,” is what the Article 2 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating. This statement tries to encourage people to dismiss any discrepancy between human beings and try

Persepolis describes the Islamic culture through the eyes of the author, Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi brings readers into her world, as she explains her childhood during the Iranian Revolution. She recounts the struggles of being Iranian in the modern society of Europe, both personal and cultural. She believes in her spirituality, but is opposed to hiding her hair under a veil, which her religion states can determine a person's faith. Satrapi teaches her readers the value of their beliefs and brings attention

Persepolis; Perceptions of the veil [Satrapi, (b) p52] “And say to the believing woman that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty...that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty...” Sūrah 24:31 The autobiographical novel “Persepolis” depicts the early stages of its author, Marjane Satrapi’s life. It shows her growing up in Iran, to her studies in Vienna, and her return. In an interview in 2008, she stated that she composed

Cultural Conflicts in Persepolis In her graphic bildungsroman novel, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood amid the war in Iran. Throughout her experiences, Marjane comes to a realization of hypocrisy that she had not seen in the adults in her life before the war, and in this juvenile insight she is forced to grow up as she discovers the many ways that war changes people. Throughout the events of the novel, Marjane takes umbrage with the pejorative hypocrisy displayed by many of the adults

Martin English 9 Honors 9 September, 2016 Togetherness through Distress: Family versus Nation in The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi “I tell you this because it’s important that you know. Our family memory must not be lost. Even if it’s not easy for you, even if you don’t understand it at all” (Persepolis 60). In her autobiography, The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi speaks from first-hand experience as she illustrates her life as a young Irani Muslim affected by the war between Iran and

“As soon as they learn our nationality, they go through everything, as though we were all terrorists. They treat us as though we have the plague” (Satrapi 203). Marjane Satrapi gives a first-hand account of what it was like being a child and growing up in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) in The Complete Persepolis. Today, living in a world that treats Iranians as if they were all bad guys, Marji shows the reader that not only are the Iranians being beat by their own government but also by

pretending to be various revolutionaries, Marjane is seen holding a mock protest in her yard shouting “Down with the king” (Satrapi 10). We see later in the chapter that thoughts that come directly from her parents Marxist ideology and revolutionary sentiments which they have begun to transfer on to Marjane. Moreover, Satrapi affirms the benevolent leader theory when Marjane compares Marx to god, whom is generally associated with benevolence (Satrapi). Satrapi affirms the theory of political socialization