Analysis Of Manjana Satrapi's 'Kim Wilde'

restriction and strong bounder in a country limits the understanding of cultural, political and social aspects of life outside our surrounding. People who live in Iran are limited to have contact to the western world, like importing and exporting items or traveling to this countries is highly prohibited because of word war 2. This affects the people who live in Iran,by limiting their understanding and knowledge about the western . In the story ¨ kim Wilde¨ by Manjana Satrapi, she narrates her story in Iran and shows her own and her community 's understanding about that western culture. She also shows that they do not have deep understanding because they are not exposed to the western culture even though the people in her community were interested including her are interested in knowing about western culture, but the country is not allowing them to have any connections. In her and other characters point of view they have a good information and knowledge about the …show more content…
It is illegal to import items like video, music tapes, lipstick and chocolates. They were considered as luxury items that will affect the way how citizen think and act, so they are forbidden to be imported and sall at the market. On the other hand, this items are very much sold on the black market. In the characters point of view they know all about the singer 's ,new fashion for females like nail polish and lipstick and also snacks, which are brought from the west. As the characters indicate the sellers are not familiarized with western culture. For example some of the singers names are misspelled like, Stevie wonder is spelled as ¨ Estevie Vonder” and Jichael Mackson is also spelled as ¨ Jikael Mackson¨ (136). This is all because they are not exposed to the outside world and have no iead who is who. They just sell it to people like Marjana, who want to buy