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    Satrapi's Persepolis

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    a graphic novel, Persepolis heavily depends on black and white illustrated pictures to convey Marjane’s story instead of language. These images provide insight into Marjane’s thoughts, which allows the reader to see a child's perspective on post-Iranian Revolution life. Oftentimes, Marjane interprets everything she hears literally. Seeing her literal and interpretations drawn out adds another humorous element to the novel. However, sometimes seeing Marjane’s thoughts has the opposite impact; one…

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    author, Marjane Satrapi, writes to portray the role of women and their femininity during the New Regime. Persepolis is written during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. The novel is written to illustrate how the Islamic Revolution leads to change culture and society in Iran. “In 1997 a revolution took place. It was later called The Islamic revolution.” (Satrapi 3) Satrapi writes how during the Islamic Revolution it was a difficult time for families, but mostly for the women. Persepolis…

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    Changes in Iran after the Islamic Revolution In the late 1970s Iran went through a political change that alternated the nation. The Shah (king) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi wanted to modernize and westernize Iran in a way similar to the United States.However, Ayatollah Khomeini ( Iran 's religious leader at this time ) did not agree with Shah Pahlavi and wanted to go by the Islamic customs.The differences between these two leaders caused Iran to go in a chaotic state and birthed the Islamic Revolution…

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    Laughing without an accent is a story about how Firoozeh Dumas grew up in America growing up Iranian. During her life she had some struggles because of the prejudices that Americans treated her with during different times of her life because of what was going on between Iran and the United States like the hostage crisis. The author Firoozeh Dumas wrote the story about herself where she is the main character in her book. Firoozeh Dumas wrote her story from when she was a little girl living in…

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    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…

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    From 1941 to 1979, the Iranian oil nation was lead by Shah Reza Pahlavi. In Persian, the old Iranian language, Shah means king. The Shah’s full name was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The oil in Iran was very valuable, and the Shah used this ingredient to start to prepare his dish. When Reza Pahlavi became the chef, he started to trade his ingredients with America. He was able to make a large amount of money and support his staff. In the 1940’s, his restaurant was up and running, he allowed women to…

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    reconcile its advancement toward secular Westernization with its strong Islamic roots led to great social upheaval. Indeed the “culture of distrust” that marked the Iranian political sphere created a sense of paranoia among the masses on which revolutionaries like Ali Shari’ati acted. But many of the conspiracy theories that prevailed were not without legitimacy; Iranians felt that imperial powers controlled their leaders—which in fact they did. For example, it was the British who helped Reza…

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    up in a very modern Iranian household during the Iran-Iraq war. Her family eventually decides that they aren’t going to leave Iran but that it would be best if Marjane went to another country where she can get a proper education and be free. Satrapi uses the motif of family throughout the story to show how her freedom comes at a cost. When Marjane is out with her friends she tells a man that she is French when he asks her where she is from. She doesn't tell him she is Iranian because she is…

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    being tortured. That is what drives me. That is what compelled me to carry on with this fight”(Interview With Shirin Ebadi). Out of the one hundred and four people to win the Nobel Peace Prize there have only been sixteen women. Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and judge, who was awarded the prestigious Peace Prize in 2003 for her civil rights work, fighting for the rights of women and children in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ("Shirin Ebadi - Biographical.") Shirin Ebadi’s story teaches us to…

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    Critical Analysis: Daughter of Persia Daughter of Persia is about a young girls journey through life after being born in Iran. She was born to the third wife of her father and was his 15th child. Shazdeh, her father, had 36 children to eight different wives. She lived in Tehran on a compound with the rest of her family. Shazdeh believed in all of his children being educated and active, even though this wasn’t common for girls at the time. This set Saitti apart from other woman throughout her…

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