Marjane Satrapi Research Paper

By describing her life story of growing up in Iran and emigrating to Europe, and by telling it in graphic novel form, Marjane Satrapi has become an ambassador for her country. She has become a spokeswoman for greater freedom and a voice of war. Her use of graphic novels to tell an autobiographical story with political features to it makes her messages approachable while still remaining strongly affecting and bring serious attention to the topics.
Marjane Satrapi was born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran and grew up in Iran’s capital, Tehran. In 1979, when she was only ten, the Islamic Revolution against the Shah occured. Her parents were against the regime of the shah and became apart of the first protest to overthrow him, but the religious rule that followed turned out to be worse for them. Anoosh, an uncle of Satrapi’s who she found to be a hero to her, was imprisoned by the shah’s regime and was sentenced to execution. He was allowed only one visitor and that Marjane. She was devastated but managed to get through it. She later studied at the Lycee Francais, the french high school in Tehran. She began to question her teachers, who were teaching the propaganda the government forced the youth to learn. Her …show more content…
She still struggled to adjusting to living under the watch of the religious police. She went to countless illegal parties hosted by her friends, where she met a man named Reza who was a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War. She married him at 21 but they divorced a couple of years later. Satrapi moved to France after college where she studied art in Strasbourg and married Mattias Ripa, a Swedish national, then moved to Paris. She was introduced to graphic novelists and realized she could tell stories and make serious points. Inspired, she created a book of comic strips about living a childhood in Tehran, the book