Tehran

The Islamic Revolution’s impact on the identity of Iranian citizens, especially women, is an important part of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Through the eyes of the main character, Marji, a young Iranian woman, Satrapi is able to explore the concept of identity through the use of religious, social, and political values present in Marji and in society. She portrays the struggle and fragility of achieving a true sense of self-identity during a time of struggle, or in the autobiography’s case: war.

Marjane Satrapi writing from the point of view of her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution, and through the war with Iraq. The main character's name is Marjane, who is growing up with both parents in Tehran, witnessed the overthrow of the Shah’s regime who was her great grandfather. The Islamic revolution took place during January 1978 thru February 1979. Life after the revolution was very hard for people women in particular because their rights were

Use of Graphic Images in Persepolis Marjane Satrapi grew up in a time of death and war, where she was forced to mature faster and deal with what was happening to her. In her book Persepolis, Marjane uses graphic images to show and represent the gender roles, danger, and loss of innocence she endured as a child. This graphic novel follows Marjane as she grows up in Iran in the heart of the Islamic revolution. Throughout the story, the reader sees certain things through Marjane’s choice of imagery

The laws changed during and after the war with Iraq and after the revolution. The new regime eventually considered everything that was westernized was against the Islamic state’s beliefs, therefore, everything related with the western culture was prohibited. The universities were closed for months and when reopened, lots of western culture topics were not taught anymore. As an example, like stated in Persepolis: “The educational system and what is written in school books, at all levels, are decadent

Many people know of Iran as a country to avoid. Many fights and wars happen in Iran, but Iran was not always like this. Persepolis is a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi in which she describes her life growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane however, struggled in Iran because of her unique situation where she would become a diaspora. This means that while Iran was changing Marjane still held on to the identity of the old Iran. She would also struggle with new beliefs that Iran was

Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black is a harrowing, disturbing, artfully made documentary, one of the few films directed by the Iranian poet Farrokhzad. Her subject here is leprosy, and she looks directly, uncompromisingly, at the devastation that this disease causes the human body. She does not look away, not from the cruelest deformations this disease generates. Her purpose was to expose the punishing and superfluous way that lepers continued to be treated in Iran, funneled into quarantined

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi uses simple images and words together to convey complex insight on characters. In the story, Marji, a young girl and her family are in the Iranian war and witness or hear of everything tragic and joyful that happens to their people. Due to the child perspective of the war, Marji allows readers to have insight on a naive girl’s outlook on a war. She shows the confusion of being a child and in this situation by using her expressions, thoughts, and position in comparison

child’s point of view was very interesting. Persepolis: A story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi is the authors memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi tells her story through black and white comic strips of her life in Tehran from her childhood ages six to fourteen. Persepolis portrays a memorable portrait of daily life in Iran, as well the perplexing contradictions between home and public life. The graphic novel shows how the reader carry’s on, with laughter and waterworks

Tehran is amongst the largest cities in the Middle East, and is the largest in Iran, a theocratic sovereign state officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran. A regional centre for thousands of years, it became the capital city of Iran in 1788 and has grown to have a metropolitan population of 15.2 million in 2015 (Statistical Center of Iran, 2015). The city’s population in 1900 was only 200,000, rapid growth mainly due to the large rural population’s need for education, healthcare and employment

The Prisoner by Robert Muchamore and Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat have many differences, but also many similarities. The first is evident by the title of the novel: In both novels the protagonist is a prisoner in a oppressive regime. The second similarity I would like to discuss is that both protagonists are teenagers, who have little real life experience and finally the fact that the protagonist from each novel are one of very few that survived the situation they were in. Differences are plenty