Iranian peoples

looking gravely. These people are the center of the illustration, and next to the group of more than 22 people, is a five-wheeled bicycle that is meant for multiple people to ride on. All of the people are melancholy and some even have their eyes closed. A caption that says “and so went the revolution in my country,” is provided in the top left corner of the panel. This illustration is significant because it shows how the Islamic Revolution fell, and the reaction of the people of…

David Olmedo Ms. Smith English 10: Credit 4 10/1/17 The Right Decision: Marji’s Story Iran. In the 1980’s, both Iraq and Iran declared war. The results of this war caused innocent people to die, and many injured with no home. For Marji, a young girl who was 12 years old at the time, had unfortunately experienced this horrifying moment in her life. Things got so bad that her parents sent her to her aunts in Vienna, Austria. To be quite honest, I agree with the parent’s decision on…

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 Conformity of Women During the Islamic Revolution Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women possessed numerous freedoms. Although the country was of Muslim origin, it was quite westernized; women had suffrage, protection rights, education, and the ability to exceed in male dominated fields. Moreover, they had the right to express themselves freely by choosing how they represented their materialistic form. That was until the Islamic Regime decreed that women would no longer bare…

the way people should live life. When Marji was leaving the country, readers got to see how kind and she was “Marji: I invited my girlfriends over to say goodbye. Here. I’m giving you my most precious things, so that you won’t forget me. I never realized how much they loved me. And I understood how important they were to me.” (Satrapi 149). Marji wanted to make sure her friends had nice things so they were as blessed as she was. The Islamic Revolution caused Marji and many other people to be…

revolution as well. Marjane used graphic images to show how revolution helped shape her life. This image represents revolution because it is an old piece of propaganda from WW1 that got people to join the war efforts to support their side of the war. This was happening in Iran at the time when there were the people who gave demonstrations/protests to make the government change their minds on the shaw or while Iran is at war with Iraq. This American propaganda shows that there is a change, but…

selflessly save several animals that were trapped in abandoned homes, such as Darling, her new dog, and is grateful for her company. Despite herself changing, Ruby's opinions of the other characters does not change. She negatively stereotypes several people, especially Darius and the little girl (GBK) that followed along. “..I opened my eyes, and practically lying on the garbage bag in front of my face was another face. The bespectacled spotty, nerdy face of.. Freak. Bespectacled, spotty, nerdy,…

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to grow up in a revolution and live in fear of what’s going to happen next? Marjane Satrapi goes through this while she grows up in the Islamic Revolution.In her book Persepolis, Marjane goes through the process of accepting and being aware of her religion, her loss of innocence, and the danger going on throughout Iran. In the 1980’s Islam became very prominent in Iran. Due to everything becoming more religious, women had to wear veils. This image…

demeonstrated against the veil, but were all threatened due to the fear of westernizing Iran. The government was forcing these changes upon the people of Iran, their reasoning? Capitalism. “All bilingual schools must be closed down. They are symbols of capitalism”(Satrapi, 4). The inequality wasn’t just about gender, peasants weren’t allowed to be with people outside their social class. Many in fact didn’t even know how to read or write. Unlike how most if not all children get some form of…

Marjane Satrapi uses images of martyrs cradled in the arms of veiled women throughout the graphic novel to convey not only the importance of martyrdom in the cultural identity of Iran during the war, but also in the broader context of Iranian history and daily life under the new oppressive Muslim government. On page 250 panel 4, Satrapi uses the angle at which the image is viewed, and the size of the panel itself, to give the feeling of importance within that image. The frame of reference in…