The Shabbat Short Story Analysis

The author’s voice consists of the style and tone of the story. Boom! (Frame 10) It’s only the beginning of the short story, “The Shabbat”. The Shabbat is set up like a cartoon you would read in a magazine or a newspaper. It has not only words but pictures as well to help the author tell the story and put the point across for the readers. This would be considered the author’s voice. Marjane Satrapi whom is the talented author for, “The Shabbat”, choose this as her style for this particular short story. While this short story is based on real events that occurred, it adds a new perspective to those events. Satrapi choose to use the graphic fiction style for her short story while also adding a frightened but loving tone to the short story. Within the story one would be filled with multiple emotions as they would …show more content…
While Satrapi takes ones emotions for a ride, one would begin to come to the realization of what they must have felt like in that situation. They were, I’m sure, on an emotional rollercoaster as well, and Satrapi gives us insight on what that would have felt like. Satrapi also uses her drawings to help tell the story. Not only do the drawings themselves tell the story, but the details within the drawings tell the story. By details, I mean the characters facial expression such as the expressions in frame 10. In frame 10, the characters have a look of shock when they hear the BOOM! Then again in frames 33 and 46, where Marji has this very sad and depressed expression on her face. As any young girl would if they couldn’t find their mother, especially if they weren’t sure whether or not their mother was dead or alive. Those facial expressions add to the emotional effect of the story and helps you understand how the characters are feeling in that exact