Satrapi has an interesting way of storytelling in Persepolis, perhaps the allure of reading the novel is due to Satrapi telling the story using pictures rather than just words like a traditional novel or is it because she depicted character development within Marjane showing her life from a child to adult in which we can relate to. Satrapi uniquely showed readers what is it like to grow up in a political conflict in which leading to Satrapi using women's role in Persepolis to craft the character Marjane to show character development. Throughout the book Marjane, her mother, and grandmother did many notable actions to show their roles as women in society of what can they do to stand up for themselves rather than following traditional roles of
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To complete this, Satrapi wrote the story to show that Marjane will to stand up for herself even if she breaks the rules of religion, society, and the law; even if she knew severity of the consequences she stood up for herself regardless. Marjane's mother also helped with Marjane's development of her character. She wanted Marjane to go to the protest even after her dad said it was too dangerous for her to go. She stood up for herself and for Marjane along with the rest of the parents after her teacher accused the whole class that they are not educated. At last Marjane's grandma served as a heavy figure of influence and role model to Marjane. Her grandma taught her to stay true to herself which serves a greater purpose on her “rediscovering her identity”. Her grandma’s distaste of the government’s political and religious view along with the rest of her family acts as an environment to Marjane to strengthen herself to have strong beliefs and morals causing her to be rebellious like her family. To summarize it all, Marjane has developed greatly under political conflict of her country with the influence of her mother and grandma to further strengthen her values, morals, and rebellious nature. Although they don't follow traditional norms they had unique roles as women in
To complete this, Satrapi wrote the story to show that Marjane will to stand up for herself even if she breaks the rules of religion, society, and the law; even if she knew severity of the consequences she stood up for herself regardless. Marjane's mother also helped with Marjane's development of her character. She wanted Marjane to go to the protest even after her dad said it was too dangerous for her to go. She stood up for herself and for Marjane along with the rest of the parents after her teacher accused the whole class that they are not educated. At last Marjane's grandma served as a heavy figure of influence and role model to Marjane. Her grandma taught her to stay true to herself which serves a greater purpose on her “rediscovering her identity”. Her grandma’s distaste of the government’s political and religious view along with the rest of her family acts as an environment to Marjane to strengthen herself to have strong beliefs and morals causing her to be rebellious like her family. To summarize it all, Marjane has developed greatly under political conflict of her country with the influence of her mother and grandma to further strengthen her values, morals, and rebellious nature. Although they don't follow traditional norms they had unique roles as women in