1986 Cannes Film Festival

The Pigman by Paul Zindel was a very good book. It all started with two high school kids writing down their experiences with an old man, Mr. Pignati, known as the Pigman. They was a Highschool boy named John, and a Highschool girl named Lorraine. John was a very handsome boy, outgoing, funny, and he had an avocation to drink beer. John’s family treats him very infantile, and is always comparing him to his brother. Lorraine was very shy and had paranoia, she was very self conscious. Somehow…

The Iranian Revolution may not seem like the ideal situation for humour to be applied, but humour is seen often in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis; a book retelling Satrapi’s childhood during the revolution. Although her story is littered with the tragedy and brutality of oppression and war, the horrors she experienced are often combined with funny moments that seem impossible in her situation. The premise of humour may seem out of place in a graphic novel about a terrible time, the…

Everybody with a sibling can tell you that as children there were many fights. Most of the time it would end with some sort of punishment, like being forced to sit it time out or being grounded. Yet we have all seen our parents fight and they never get punished for it. The conflict of parent and child, and many other conflicts, are seen in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This graphic novel tells of Satrapi’s tween years, where she lived through the Iranian Revolution and struggled against both…

Imagine siblings watching the same thing happen, then they both go tell people two different versions of the same story. Why is that? Well it’s simple, the siblings have different perspectives. Nobody’s perspective is ever going to be exactly the same as someone else and the person’s perspective will affect how that person presents a story, topic, or idea. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s perspective affects how she presents many things, such as nationalism, religion, and social classes.…

The graphic novel Persepolis was a very informing novel, that gave me a insight on what it was like to be a child growing up in a nation that was undergoing a war. The moment after I read the first page, I instantly became hooked because of the look of annoyance on the young face of Marji. At first, I was so confused, because I thought how could such a young child portray such a strong look of distaste on her face. However, as the novel progressed onward I finally understood; her nation was…

Marjane and Nujood The authors of both The Complete Persepolis and I am Nujood write about places where women have little or no freedom. Women in Iran and Yemen are supposed to behave a certain way and do not get as many choices as men. Also, women are not given a good education or expected to have a job. Plus, they do not have any religious freedom. Everyone is expected to believe in whatever God their countries worship. Marjane Satrapi and Nujood Ali, the main characters, are both living in…

The Complete Persepolis relates the story of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman growing up in the center of the Iranian revolutionary movement, who since a young age saw the horror of the war herself and got involved in the ideologies of the opposition side. The style and figurative language she utilizes to present this autobiography highlights the reality of wartime in Iran and describes society’s ways of living before and after the insurgency. This graphic novel depicts Satrapi’s autobiography…

The Importance of Sacrifice in The Road Cormac McCarthy’s The Road portrays a post-apocalyptic world containing nothing but the distinct loss of morality and desperate attempts to survive. In this cruel world, while most become bestial and corrupt, a father and his son struggle to find ways to stay alive while simultaneously keeping hope alive and staying humane in their ways. The sacrifices made by the man strengthen his relationship with his son and help maintain the only thing they have…

The father and the son lived in dark and dreary world, filled with violent people. In the book The Road, the father looked at his son for hope and mercy. The son carries the fire within him throughout the book showing that he has the light and hope to stay positive and survive through the rough and ashed world. The motif of this novel is light versus dark because they live in a dark place that they are trying to escape by making fires and the son carrying the fire. The way they lived was hard…

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte employs birds a symbol in order to highlight important themes in her novel. While birds traditionally symbolize freedom and expression, Bronte uses them to show independence (or a lack of), freedom, and rifts in social class. Bronte also depicts some of her most prominent characters as birds such as Jane, Rochester, Adele, Bertha, and even Rochester’s guests. Through the use of bird symbolism Bronte highlights important topics in her novel, while giving the reader…