Words can only be descriptive to an extent, they are searched for to best define what is being put in place for a reader to use their imagination. Although through images every little detail that was stated can be left unsaid, providing the author a chance to have the reader think the way they want them too, imagination does not have to go far off into wondering what was taking place, connecting to the writer’s point of view. Within the book Persepolis, author Marjane Satrapi best describes her everyday life growing up during the reign of the Shah to the Islamic Revolution and her surrounding situations more effectively by representing her experience with imagery. Satrapi depicts abuse of power through visual rhetoric to educate the reader
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She uses the power of images to create a visual representation of her everyday life as a child who hears about young poor boys being brainwashed, Persepolis page 101, and who are utterly devoted to what the military was promising them; "the afterlife is even better than Disneyland..." When matter of fact was showing the depth of how far the military would use their power to get more numbers added into the military. Hillary Chute states that “...drawings are more effective than the realistic pictures would, makes you stop and think what that experience would look like” (page 102). As kids are being blown up, Persepolis page 102, Satrapi cannot help but try to imagine realistically what went down that day, it is drawn with a drastic like shading to depict explosions while showing the children with their arched backs stating a form of torturous …show more content…
Narrating the book well enough to tell the reader her point of view on what really goes on within Iran. She knew her surroundings to an extent and always based it off on how her parents, relatives, neighbors, media and so on informed her on the events that were taking place. Hillary Chute states that "Persepolis at once comments on the insufficiency of any representation to "fully" represent trauma and also harness the power of the visual to represent an important emotional landscape..." By creating the book through imagery, Satrapi was able to grab readers attention, allowing her to get her point across to those who stereotype Iranians just from watching the news reports that falsely show the downside of her
She uses the power of images to create a visual representation of her everyday life as a child who hears about young poor boys being brainwashed, Persepolis page 101, and who are utterly devoted to what the military was promising them; "the afterlife is even better than Disneyland..." When matter of fact was showing the depth of how far the military would use their power to get more numbers added into the military. Hillary Chute states that “...drawings are more effective than the realistic pictures would, makes you stop and think what that experience would look like” (page 102). As kids are being blown up, Persepolis page 102, Satrapi cannot help but try to imagine realistically what went down that day, it is drawn with a drastic like shading to depict explosions while showing the children with their arched backs stating a form of torturous …show more content…
Narrating the book well enough to tell the reader her point of view on what really goes on within Iran. She knew her surroundings to an extent and always based it off on how her parents, relatives, neighbors, media and so on informed her on the events that were taking place. Hillary Chute states that "Persepolis at once comments on the insufficiency of any representation to "fully" represent trauma and also harness the power of the visual to represent an important emotional landscape..." By creating the book through imagery, Satrapi was able to grab readers attention, allowing her to get her point across to those who stereotype Iranians just from watching the news reports that falsely show the downside of her