One can view Islam as a terrorist religion, while another can view Islam as a peaceful religion. Neither perspective is wrong of Islam because perspective can be influenced by environment, personal experience, society, family, and a variety of other factors. This is why Marjane Satrapi’s unique influences affect her perspective on how she portrays imperialism, social classes, and revolution in her life and the book Persepolis.
This photograph shows the United States and Europe taking the natural resources out of Africa. This represents imperialism because it shows how the more powerful countries extend their influence to get Africa’s resources and just take it out all for themselves. Also, it shows how Africa did not gain anything when the …show more content…
This is an image that demonstrates how social classes divided society into 3 classes; the elite, the middle, and the lower class with people trying to move up their social class. In Persepolis, Marjane witnessed first hand the segregation, problems, and how people were trying to move up their social class. One example of this is when Marjane was riding in her Dad’s Cadillac and she felt ashamed for riding in it. Marjane reveals why she is ashamed when she says, “The reason for my shame and for the revolution is the same: the difference between social classes” (Satrapi 33). This is where Marjane expresses her perspective on social classes and how she doesn’t think there should be separation of social classes because she states it in the book Persepolis. Another instance is when Marjane helps write letters for Mehri because she is illiterate, since she is a maid for the Satrapi’s and never learned how to write. Then Mehri sends it to the neighbor boy and pretends to be Marjane’s sister because in Iran people not in the same social class aren’t allowed to marry each other. But after Marjane’s father finds out; he informs the neighbor boy that the person you were receiving letters from was the Satrapi’s maid. After the neighbor learned about this, he stopped writing and wasn’t fond of Mehri anymore. Marjane expresses how it is unfair that a person in Iran has to marry someone in their social …show more content…
This picture depicts many people uniting together, making a tremendous fist; along with carrying weapons and pitchforks. This is a representation of revolution because in a revolution, it is more than one person uniting together to try to bring about change. That is shown in the picture because it shows how all the people uniting together to make a gigantic fist; making the fist stronger and harder to ignore. This similar idea is symbolized throughout the book Persepolis; when Marjane’s mother protests having to be forced to wear the veil, but the revolution against the Shah’s new ideas like wearing the veil was split and didn’t have good leadership; making the ideas of the people revolting not be heard. As a result of this, nothing was able to change about the veil because not enough people supported not wearing the veil, since no one united the people. This influence on Marjane causes her to have the perspective for change to happen more people need to support it and that there needs to be someone uniting the people. This is later shown when Marjane wants to be a prophet, which is a person who guides the people for a certain movement. Marjane’s perspective is demonstrated again when she wants to go out and protest herself, but her parents don’t think she should and insist she stay home. Marjane disobeys her parents orders and goes
This photograph shows the United States and Europe taking the natural resources out of Africa. This represents imperialism because it shows how the more powerful countries extend their influence to get Africa’s resources and just take it out all for themselves. Also, it shows how Africa did not gain anything when the …show more content…
This is an image that demonstrates how social classes divided society into 3 classes; the elite, the middle, and the lower class with people trying to move up their social class. In Persepolis, Marjane witnessed first hand the segregation, problems, and how people were trying to move up their social class. One example of this is when Marjane was riding in her Dad’s Cadillac and she felt ashamed for riding in it. Marjane reveals why she is ashamed when she says, “The reason for my shame and for the revolution is the same: the difference between social classes” (Satrapi 33). This is where Marjane expresses her perspective on social classes and how she doesn’t think there should be separation of social classes because she states it in the book Persepolis. Another instance is when Marjane helps write letters for Mehri because she is illiterate, since she is a maid for the Satrapi’s and never learned how to write. Then Mehri sends it to the neighbor boy and pretends to be Marjane’s sister because in Iran people not in the same social class aren’t allowed to marry each other. But after Marjane’s father finds out; he informs the neighbor boy that the person you were receiving letters from was the Satrapi’s maid. After the neighbor learned about this, he stopped writing and wasn’t fond of Mehri anymore. Marjane expresses how it is unfair that a person in Iran has to marry someone in their social …show more content…
This picture depicts many people uniting together, making a tremendous fist; along with carrying weapons and pitchforks. This is a representation of revolution because in a revolution, it is more than one person uniting together to try to bring about change. That is shown in the picture because it shows how all the people uniting together to make a gigantic fist; making the fist stronger and harder to ignore. This similar idea is symbolized throughout the book Persepolis; when Marjane’s mother protests having to be forced to wear the veil, but the revolution against the Shah’s new ideas like wearing the veil was split and didn’t have good leadership; making the ideas of the people revolting not be heard. As a result of this, nothing was able to change about the veil because not enough people supported not wearing the veil, since no one united the people. This influence on Marjane causes her to have the perspective for change to happen more people need to support it and that there needs to be someone uniting the people. This is later shown when Marjane wants to be a prophet, which is a person who guides the people for a certain movement. Marjane’s perspective is demonstrated again when she wants to go out and protest herself, but her parents don’t think she should and insist she stay home. Marjane disobeys her parents orders and goes