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disappointed for receiving the penalty and just like the players of the match, the girls are more determined to reach their goal. The duality of the title sums up the similarities of the soccer match and the “game” the girls are playing. Just as the Iranian team wins the match, the girls also are victorious as they are allowed off of the bus transporting them to jail to celebrate amongst the…

all these sluts out there, we’re going to have to watch our husbands” (Satrapi 93) to describe the women food shopping. As well as the term whore, used by a women to describe another women it argues how discrimination could not only responsible by Iranian men. If women were describing each other in suc vulgar ways, what was so wrong with men doing it also? Author Hillary Chute argues that Satrapi wrote Persepolis by modeling a feminist methodology bias, since the author is narrating herself…

While discussing Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, with my classmates during the interactive oral, I found the many forms of exile represented in the novel very interesting. For example, while traditional examples of exile were frequently represented (i.e. how Satrapi’s Uncle Anoosh exiled himself to Russia in order to escape the Shah’s army (57/3,4)), many non-traditional forms of exile where it is more abstract, and not necessarily a person sent from a place. One example of this form of exile is…

who were followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini forced the Iranian monarch, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, commonly referred to as the Shah of Iran to disband his government. The Shah then fled to Egypt. In October of 1979, President Jimmy Carter agreed to allow the Shah to come to the United States for cancer treatment. Because of this and other reasons, on November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students seized the United States Embassy in Tehran, and took 66 hostages. Shortly afterward, they…

Annotated Bibliography Bagherpour, Amir. "The Iranian Diaspora in America: 30 Years in the Making." PBS. Web. 12 Sept. 2010. 15 Feb. 2016. . Thirty years after the notorious Islamic Revolution of 1979, the United States has become a haven to “the largest and most prosperous population of Iranians.” A constant amount of Iranians immigrated to the U.S. during the 1980s, but the number reached its climax in the 1990s. When Iranians migrated to the United States, they thought it would be a…

have been in Iran for centuries, and in some cases for thousands of years. The diverse peoples of Iran are separated by language, religion, and way of life. One such community that have existed for thousands of years and still exist today are the Iranian Jews. Judaism has a rich and millennial history in Iran including the era 2,500 years ago when the first Persian ruler declared religious freedom. But during the Islamic Revolution, as the last Persian monarch left Iran 35 years ago, thousands…

her life during the Iranian Revolution and the war that followed. During the Iranian revolution the Germans sold chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq during the duration of the revolution. These chemical weapons were a huge reason the medical resources were taken from the civilians and put towards the soldiers of the revolution. In the book, Satrapi talks about her trip to the hospital for her uncle and her witnessing victims of chemical warfare. Chemical Weapon use during the Iranian revolution…

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 her parents, the government, and herself. Satrapi describes this revolution through her childhood point of view in order to show that there is juxtaposition in all forms of conflict, because no conflict…

The Iranian people today live under an oppressive authoritarian regime that imposes a narrow interpretation of Islamic governance across the country. Since 1979, the clerical regime has strengthened its stranglehold on almost every sphere of Iranian peoples’ lives. The first phase of the revolution lasted from 1979 -1989 until the ayatollah’s death. This tumultuous period included killing off supporters of the previous regime, taking foreign hostages and fostering its zealotry across the Islamic…

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.…