Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis is a true story about Marjane growing up in Iran during times of war and revolution. In her book she portrays countless events she experienced while growing up during those harrowing times. However, her perspective on certain issues like gender roles, social class, and religion affected how Marjane portrayed certain events in Persepolis. This political cartoon depicts a bunk bed of the upper class at the top, the middle class in the middle, and the lower class on the bottom of the bunk bed. It also shows some people trying to climb the ladder to a different social class, however some people have fallen off the ladder in the drawing which symbolizes them falling into poverty. In Marjane Satrapi’s story, Persepolis
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However, Marjane’s personal perspective on social classes could’ve altered that scene. In reality Marjane’s father could’ve done it not because of social classes, but because eventually Hossein would’ve learned that Mehri was a maid and he still would’ve broken up with her. Marjane thought that he was enforcing the rule about social class, but in reality he was just protecting Mehri from later heartbreak which shows how Marjane’s perspective affected how she portrayed that specific scene and other instances of social class throughout her book.This picture depicts and man and a woman with speech bubbles that depict stereotypical things in them that each one would like. For example the ladies speech bubble has a bottle of perfume and jewelry in it , while the man has tools and a fishing pole in his speech bubble. All 4 of these things are stereotypical things that men and women might like, which shows an example of gender roles in society. In Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis she writes about a moment where she looks at the difference between a fundamentalist person and a modern person. She makes a comment in which she says that because women have to wear the veil to cover their hair, men should have to cover their bare arms too (Satrapi 75). This moment shows how her perspective on gender roles affected her story because she could've commented about how it was unfair for women to have to wear the veil or anything about how women were …show more content…
It symbolizes the light that is often associated with religion. However, it is not associated with any specific religion. In Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis she recalls times where she would talk with god and how she wanted to become a prophet, but she doesn’t believe all of what Islam believes and she doesn’t know all the rules of Islam. The reason the picture and the book are connected is because Marjane believes what she wants to believe, not following any specific religion and more the basic outline of Islam. The picture depicts a common religious symbol, but isn’t associated with any specific religion just like how Marjane doesn’t follow a specific religion but is still religious. This perspective on religion may have affected a certain scene in the book where Marjane is confused about why she has to wear the veil. During the scene she states that,”We didn’t really like to wear the veil. Especially because we didn’t understand why we had to,” (Satrapi 5). If she knew more about the religion of Islam instead of thinking about what she believes personally,
However, Marjane’s personal perspective on social classes could’ve altered that scene. In reality Marjane’s father could’ve done it not because of social classes, but because eventually Hossein would’ve learned that Mehri was a maid and he still would’ve broken up with her. Marjane thought that he was enforcing the rule about social class, but in reality he was just protecting Mehri from later heartbreak which shows how Marjane’s perspective affected how she portrayed that specific scene and other instances of social class throughout her book.This picture depicts and man and a woman with speech bubbles that depict stereotypical things in them that each one would like. For example the ladies speech bubble has a bottle of perfume and jewelry in it , while the man has tools and a fishing pole in his speech bubble. All 4 of these things are stereotypical things that men and women might like, which shows an example of gender roles in society. In Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis she writes about a moment where she looks at the difference between a fundamentalist person and a modern person. She makes a comment in which she says that because women have to wear the veil to cover their hair, men should have to cover their bare arms too (Satrapi 75). This moment shows how her perspective on gender roles affected her story because she could've commented about how it was unfair for women to have to wear the veil or anything about how women were …show more content…
It symbolizes the light that is often associated with religion. However, it is not associated with any specific religion. In Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis she recalls times where she would talk with god and how she wanted to become a prophet, but she doesn’t believe all of what Islam believes and she doesn’t know all the rules of Islam. The reason the picture and the book are connected is because Marjane believes what she wants to believe, not following any specific religion and more the basic outline of Islam. The picture depicts a common religious symbol, but isn’t associated with any specific religion just like how Marjane doesn’t follow a specific religion but is still religious. This perspective on religion may have affected a certain scene in the book where Marjane is confused about why she has to wear the veil. During the scene she states that,”We didn’t really like to wear the veil. Especially because we didn’t understand why we had to,” (Satrapi 5). If she knew more about the religion of Islam instead of thinking about what she believes personally,