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People are affected by culture everyday of their life; sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. A girl named Marjane Satrapi in the autobiography Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was impacted by a cultural revolution. Turning her life turn upside down. Over the course of a few years she had turned from a child to a young teen, experiencing the violence of war and eventually moving to Austria without her family. She was impacted greatly by the government, social organization, and changing…

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…

Marjane Satrapi, the author of «Persepolis», was born in 1969 in Iran, in an aristocratic family, belonging to the Qajar dynasty, whose members ruled Iran between 1781 and 1925. Despite their origins, Satrapi's parents shared the ideas of communism, and her uncle had even been executed for his political beliefs. (Tulli) "Persepolis" is a story of Marjane Satrapi growing up in her native Iran. The events in the book take place in the period from 1979 until the end of the 80’s. The overthrowing…

The role of women in Persepolis Kim Scheepens 21-10-2015 • What is the role of women in the story? Compare and contrast the various women: Marji, her mother, her grandmother, her school teachers, the maid, the neighbors, the guardians of the revolution. In Persepolis, Marjane shows very clearly that the women in her life had a big impact on the way she develops throughout the novel and these…

Persepolis Perfect Paragraph One major theme in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is feminism and a major symbol that connects to that theme is the veil. In the beginning of the novel, Marji tells us that they have started to make veils mandatory at school, and the girls do not like it, especially since the boys can wear whatever they want. The girls complain that it’s too hot and play around with it, throw it on the floor, and take them off many times. They’re supposed to wear the veil in order to…