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In Marjane Satrapi's biographical graphic novel, Persepolis, there are two important setting which helped this readers understand Marjane. One of these settings is her childhood in Tehran, Iran, during and after the Iranian Revolution of '79, and another was the four years Marjane spent in Vienna, Austria, from when she was 14 till she was 18 years old. These two settings are important in understanding Marji, as the reader can see how she reacts to change, and her feeling towards it. The readers

Persepolis by author Marjane Satrapi is a nonfiction graphic novel set in Tehran, Iran in the 1980s. It is a story of a child, Marjane Satrapi growing up and going through the Islamic Revolution, Cultural Revolution and war between Iran and Iran. In 1979, it was being enforced that women have to wear veils, Marjane was ten and in school when this happened, she didn’t understand it nor did she like it, “Then came 1980: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school. We didn’t like to wear

Embassy in Tehran, President Carter threatened Iranian students in the U.S. with deportation. On November 13th, 1979, President Carter ordered the deportation proceedings of Iranian Students who were in the U.S. illegally. President Carter targeted the Iranian students

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel illustrating Satrapi, as a young girl growing up in Iran during the 1980’s. Satrapi shares her story while growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. From ages six to fourteen she shows and tells about the changes she endured during the revolution and war. The changes included her beliefs, social life and family. By the end of the Islamic Revolution the Shah was overthrown. His

In the graphic novel, “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi brings to light the devastations in her life in Tehran during the Iranian revolution of 1973 as well as the eight-year war with Iraq. Forced upon Marji was a life surrounded by Middle Eastern conflicts and policies that became unavoidable. Iran had strict government policies, military forces, and radicalists that punished those that protested against Iran's rejection of western influence. After Satrapi and her parents came back from vacation, her

was likely, hence increased Beijing’s fear for regime-change, particularly since the IAEA inspectors visited the Parchin military complex, believing that they saw the whole side of high-explosive tests related to nuclear weapons research. However, Tehran unknowingly only gave partial access to the side, thus no evidence was found by the IAEA inspectors. In order to prevent Iran

a privilege. Besides freedom just being a right, it also limits the violence in a nation. Lastly, freedom creates human security . All in all, freedom should be given. Freedom gives people a sense of stability. In the text, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” it talks about how Iran forced woman to adhere to an islamic dress code. However, this dress code made women worry about going out and being ridiculed and punished due to the fact that the way they were dressed was unacceptable. Freedom is a common

The Iranian Revolution was the first of many popular civil insurrections that resulted in the overthrow of an autocratic monarchy which lasted from 1977 to 1979. It consisted of non-violent demonstrations by the revolutionaries until late 1978, due to the shah’s decision to violently silence demonstrators. The shah, during the time period, was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He was viewed by many to be a western-puppet who implemented a variety of systems and programs that suggested westernization. Iran was

graphic novel that illustrates her life in both Iran and Europe. Marjane is sent away by her parents to Austria in an attempt to shield her from the growing oppression of the Islamic regime in Tehran. In Austria, Marjane soon sees herself as an outsider, and after four years moves back to Tehran. While in Tehran, Marjane still feels lonely, as she has carried western ideals in a society that adamantly rejects western customs. She becomes depressed and even attempts suicide. Fruits Basket is a Japanese

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is a book written by Marjane Satrapi with the intent of disproving the common beliefs of the western world about Iran. Many people of the western culture viewed Iran as a predominately terrorist nation with strong ties to fundamentalist. Marjane, at the age of ten, recounts her childhood memories of growing up in Iran during the 1979 cultural revolution. Her story is told from the ages of six to fourteen and includes the attitudes and realities of the overthrow