Marjane Satrapi

strongly believed in because other people's perspective on you might change? This happens a lot in today's society but it also happened to Marjane Satrapi. Marjane tells her story through her novel, Persepolis, and it shows how things in the world can drastically change someone’s perspective. The imperialism that took place in Marjane’s country, the religion that Marjane strongly believed in, and Marjane’s loss of innocence while she was very young all affected her perspective throughout the…

believed in because other people's perspective about you might change? This happens a lot in today's society, but it also happened to Marjane Satrapi. Marjane tells her story through her novel, Persepolis, and it helps show how things in the world can drastically change someone’s perspective. The imperialism that took place in Marjane’s country, the religion that Marjane strongly believed in, and Marjane’s loss of innocence while she was very young, all affected her perspective throughout the…

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…

“Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi uses the absence of text (dialogue) and images (visuals) to realistically emphasize and reinforce the ideas and emotions that she underwent during the war between Iran and Iraq. A handful of examples include, but are not limited to when she was walking on the street, when she found out that her neighborhood was attacked, when she finally reunited with her mother, and when she discovers that her friend passed away. In the largest panel of the whole excerpt, it shows…

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 women also helped her become the woman she is today. Marji’s mother, grandmother, schoolteachers and the maid helped her develop…

In her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi tells of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War. She lived in Tehran, Iran’s capital city, and was ten years old when the Shah fled Iran to escape the revolution. The 1979 revolution overturned the existing political order, thus creating what appeared to be an atmosphere for idealized social change and progress. The revolution was situated unquestionably in Marxist…

After reading the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, I have a lot to say about it. A lot of book reviewing places have similar things to my opinion to say about the book as well. According to Goodreads.com, “Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.” (Persepolis review para. 1) When I read the book for the first time, these were my exact thoughts. After reading it for the second or third time, the images were the…

Good morning, my name is Mani, and my topic for this English IOP is Theme Of Freedom. The theme freedom in Persepolis is expressed throughout the graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. The utmost speciality of the novel Persepolis is of it being written in a graphical format. first of all, what is a graphical novel you guys must be wondering, A Graphic novels are books that combine both text and illustration, the pictures are arranged in panels while the text can be in speech bubbles…

from harm. My actions resulted from the fact that I was too scared to be honest and admit the truth. In my coming of age graphic memoir, I share a very important scene from my life, which has shaped me to become the person I am today. Like me, Marjane Satrapi also wrote a graphic memoir named Persepolis, describing her point of view and experience during the Islamic revolution. In one of the chapters from Persepolis,…

Hi Deepali, In my English class we are discussing relationships in relation to books we read over the summer and the book I chose to write about is a first-person war history graphic novel called Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It is about a little girl growing up in the face of the Islamic revolution in Iran. You were the first person to come into mind to write to because the theme of relationships reminded me about our discussion on charity, and whether it is an obligation or a choice. This…