Persepolis Color

When reading Marjane Satrapi’s novel, The Complete Persepolis, it was first kind of odd. The reason of oddness being that, the book was filled from cover to cover in drawings; it raised a thought about the seriousness of the idea the author was trying to portray. Although the way the author composed this book seemed unorthodox for such an impactful work of literature, its setup played a compelling role in the telling the story. Satrapi automatically catches the readers’ attention with Persepolis due to the fact that it’s is a pretty lengthy graphic novel. Aside from its length, Persepolis is a graphic novel that has no color to it, it is completely black and white. The only color to the book is on the outer cover, but that color does not correlate with the storyline or the message the author is trying to get across. The novel gives the reader a graphic memoir of how Satrapi views her life experiences starting from childhood leading into her adult life; the black and white pictures depict the way she sees her life. Black and white, as we all know, are not actually considered colors. Black is the nonappearance of color and white is the opposite, being the presence of each and every color. The significance of the author’s black and white drawings is to display coherence. “We didn’t really …show more content…
Due to message the author shared throughout her book, the black and white made a vital impact. In the book, Satrapi comes into contact with people of all different cultures, which means that she came into contact with people of all different skin tones. The black and white takes the focus off of the skin color and points the focus toward the characters’ words, thoughts, and actions. The lack of color in the novel is appropriate, because the novel isn’t a comic book filled with colorful drawings, it is an eye-opening piece of writing meant to open of the readers eyes to a deeper message and