Persepolis Essay

In the story Persepolis, it is about the life of the author, Marjane Satrapi. She was born in Iran during the revolution period where everything changing. Death are happening everyday around her, freedom was taken away, and the huge difference was the gender separation, where girls and boys are separate from school and told not to have any sexual relationship before marriage. Girls were forced to put on veil and were told not to have any sexual relationship with men. In the book Majrane drew a…

The Iranian Revolution, social classes, and gender roles all had a significant impact on Marjane Satrapi’s life which is displayed in her book, Persepolis. To symbolize the revolution, we selected an image that displays the phases of the moon, which represents the phases the people of Iran had to go through to get to a complete revolution. To represent the idea of social classes, we decided upon a diagram that shows the percentages of the different social classes which explains why Marjane’s…

The theme between Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi , Sixteen pictures of my father by Marion Winink, and An American Childhood by Annie Dillard have related themes which are self-identity and discomfort. Even today we live in a complex society and people are constantly changing mentally and emotionally and people’s actions are based on what they feel is right not what is right by nature or law. In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi who grew up and adopted the Islamic culture because she was from Iran.…

If I was the author of the story trying to get this book published and someone asked me what does this story bring to society and if there is a meaningful theme, I would respond with Persepolis is a story about a little girl who is in a tough situation, who throughout the story slowly becomes more aware of her situation and starts becoming more mature. I (The author) believe that by being rebellious you will always challenge others and learn to think for yourself. There is proof of this…

individual which influences them to act in the way they do. Marjane is a very independent and young woman that strives to develop a voice for herself; however, she is under the constant control of her family as well as the law. The graphic novel, Persepolis, illustrates the path of Marjane’s life and how each challenge reveals another characteristic that impacts her growth as a woman. Marjane Satrapi emphasizes that the demonstration of her parents, the leadership of her uncle, and pursuing to…

The various female characters in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis exemplify multiple different roles of women in society. Marji’s family line, being her grandmother, her mother, and herself has a strong sense of individuality that personifies them as being equivalent to the men who live in their society. In contrast, minor female characters, such as Marji’s teachers, emphasize the developing oppressiveness of society after the Iranian Revolution. Whereas many of the major female characters in the…

no matter the situation. Freedom being demanded can be found in the texts we have read, “I Have a Dream,” “Lolita in Tehran,” and “Persepolis,” where they all imposed for freedom in their own unique ways. Freedom cannot be…

The book Persepolis we see Iranian refugees struggling to get away from radical Islamic people and the rules they bring. A few of the rules include all women wearing veils and men not being allowed to shave their faces. Main character and family were constantly going somewhere new to seek shelter or get away from high crime areas. As we see in high school that the people around us are constantly changing, although we maybe stuck in the same place everything around us is changing. I compare a…

justice oriented, and shielded by childhood innocence, just to name a few, describe Marjane Satrapi character in Persepolis, a memoir describing the difficulties she faced adjusting to Islamic rule in Iran during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Satrapi’s use of comics and dialogue effectively retells the hardships endured by the Iranian people during a process of revolution. Ultimately, Persepolis describes the clash of ideologies, modernism and fundamentalism, the way in which it reshaped…

Persepolis is a fascinating book because it doesn’t only change my viewpoint on single subject, but it changes my viewpoint on politics, religion and general terrorism. By learning what exactly happened during that time period you get the inside scoop of what really happened. The book helped analyze my reading style it made me achieve meta-level thinking by completely changing my view on Islamic culture. When I began reading Persepolis I had no idea what the book was about. While I was reading,…