Marjane Satrapi was born in Iran in 1969 and grew up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution. This would later play a major role in the creation of her graphic memoir. When she was 14 she had gotten expelled from her French-language school for hitting a principal whom asked her to stop wearing jewelry to school. She was then sent to a school in Vienna, Austria. She returned to Iran at age 18 from Austria to attend college. After a short marriage and divorce Satrapi moved to France and had her graphic novel Persepolis published in 2000. Through text and graphics in the short story, "The Shabbat", Satrapi utilizes recollections of her childhood experiences to show the impact of the Iranian Revolution as well as express her thoughts and emotions during it.
The Iranian Revolution had a great impact on the daily conversations of those living in Iran. "The Shabbat" begins with Marjane and her family discussing the possibility of Iraq having ballistic missiles. To ease tensions the family tried to stay optimistic stating that they did not believe that "Iraqis have weapons like that" (Satrapi 21). They even tried making jokes about …show more content…
Marjane's "shopping euphoria" is interrupted when there is an explosion in the Tavanir neighborhood, her neighborhood. She rushes home and squeezes through the crowd but is unable to look up out of fear. This depicts a moment in Marjane's life where she experiences true fear that she may have lost her family to the conflict that has threatened Iran for so long. Though her family is safe, the missile took the life of a different family, Marjane's neighbors, the Baba-Levys. Though they had evacuated like most of the town they returned home for the Jewish Sabbath day, or "The Shabbat". The war becomes so much more personal to Marjane after the death of her friend. The last frame of the story is just a blacked-out box. It represents the Marjane's world, a dark place full of anger and
The Iranian Revolution had a great impact on the daily conversations of those living in Iran. "The Shabbat" begins with Marjane and her family discussing the possibility of Iraq having ballistic missiles. To ease tensions the family tried to stay optimistic stating that they did not believe that "Iraqis have weapons like that" (Satrapi 21). They even tried making jokes about …show more content…
Marjane's "shopping euphoria" is interrupted when there is an explosion in the Tavanir neighborhood, her neighborhood. She rushes home and squeezes through the crowd but is unable to look up out of fear. This depicts a moment in Marjane's life where she experiences true fear that she may have lost her family to the conflict that has threatened Iran for so long. Though her family is safe, the missile took the life of a different family, Marjane's neighbors, the Baba-Levys. Though they had evacuated like most of the town they returned home for the Jewish Sabbath day, or "The Shabbat". The war becomes so much more personal to Marjane after the death of her friend. The last frame of the story is just a blacked-out box. It represents the Marjane's world, a dark place full of anger and