Persepolis Essay

Persepolis-Marjane Survived! In what ways has your family influenced the way you grew up or what you wanted to do in the future? Marjane’s family had different beliefs than the dictator and took action by rebelling on the streets. Marjane’s family influenced her on what to believe in and how to stand up for what she wanted. Throughout Persepolis, the beliefs of Marji’s family set a path for Marji to mature into a rebellious person. Marjane was taught to rebel against the king’s religious beliefs…

rebels plot a rebellion against an evil kingdom. But do you know other versions of rebellions? A rebellion is usually not the same in every case nor in every story. In the passages, “Cairo: My City, My Revolution”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and “Persepolis 2”, rebellion is presented in many forms and ways by the authors. To begin with, in the passage “Cairo: My City, My Revolution” the setting of the story is in Egypt. It talks about the rebellion that occurred on Friday, January 28 at 5:00…

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…

With Persepolis, the genre Satrapi chose to tell her story, autobiography by comic book/graphic novel, became very popular. It seems that this long-form telling of a serious story through mainly pictures is popular because it is so easily accessible for people. Anyone can pick up this book and understand what is going on and what the message is. One can also go through this book relatively fast because it is mainly pictures. If this book were to be placed in a bookstore, I’m not…

differently throughout history showing the Eastern cultures as barbaric or uncivilized. Although our history classes show them in a different perspective the area is culturally rich and has deep roots of its ancestral past. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader dives into the mystical world and the modernization, regime changes, and religious revival that has swept the ancient state of Persia into the new Iran. The novel reveals a different side of history where the…

Topic: Persepolis Name: Course: Introduction 1. Satrapi wanted to bring out the stereotype that exist in the western media that Iranians are extremist and as well agree with terrorism acts of the past. 2. She was motivated by friends she was working with at a studio to tell her stories on behalf of other Iranians, more so who had suffered in the war and to convince his readers that Iran as a whole should not be blamed because of the acts of some few extremist. The Veil 1. The novel begins when…

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”, a film based on four volumes of Marjane Satrapi’s widely read autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, directed by Ms. Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, consists of a series of monochrome, muted animation. The film details the chronicle of a young girl’s coming of age in the midst of the Iranian Revolution and knits together the turbulent history of Iran and Marjane’s turbulent life. Although devoid of color, the movie certainly does not lack in humor and charm. Growing up…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

How To Get Green Grass 101 What if the grass isn’t greener on the other side? What does one do to move forward? In the memoir “Persepolis” Marj who is the main character, watched as her family opposed the current form of government. Her parents started to participate in demonstrations to dethrone the Shah, who was Mohammad Pahlavi, because of unfair distribution of wealth. Their actions encouraged Marj to participate in the demonstrations; although she didn’t quite know what she was…