Marjane Satrapi

by the very skilled author Marjane Sarapi. Marjane Sarapi was bon in1969 in Rasht, Iran. Marjane Sarapi grow up in Iran and then she moved to Vienna running from the war and continuing her education. At the mean time Marjane Sarapi lives in Paris. Marjane Sarapi is very well known in writhing children books and her work was published in the most famous newspapers and magazines such as Los Angles Times, Time, USA Today, The New Yorkers, and New York Times. However, Marjane Sarapi wrote…

The text is an account of Viva Perpetua, an educated woman of high social standards and felicity, a servant along with fellow Christians. Perpetua was just twenty-two years. She narrated and recorded her experiences as Christian martyr to write a whole series of her martyrdom . Martyrdom is the act of someone suffering persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate one’s religious belief as commanded by an another party. Perpetua and Felicity…

graphic novel The Veil, she explores the dominant representation of covered Muslim women through her experiences as a child during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Every word, symbol, image, and idea has a history behind it and each creates a new future. Satrapi argues that the image of the veil is not a symbol of oppression but instead empowerment and exploration of identity. She employs visual rhetoric and narrative constructions to create this iconic graphic memoir. She forms an ethical…

In Virginia Bergin’s book, H2O (2014), she tells a story that informs readers about the character’s life in the time period when the killer rain took life away in the world. Bergin develops her ideas of the killer rain by having the character narrate in a candid and addicting way that brings the terrifying and wholly plausible story to life. Incorporating the language that teenagers speak today, Bergin writes in an informal way in order to hypnotize the readers into the book, making them think…

The first few chapters of Persepolis discuss Marji’s participation in protests, her having to wear the veil and not understanding why, as well as how Reza Shah came into power. As we know the veil was not banned under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but it would become compulsory when the government was being consolidated and the ministry of Islamic guidance enforced an “Islamic code of public appearance.” Women were forced to cover themselves with either scarves, long coats or preferably the full chador…

not only the local population, but also the Armenian community. Both “Persepolis” and “The Armenian Community of Tabriz” are bright examples of how indigenous people and unwelcomed non-natives suffered from the decisions that government made. As Satrapi brings up in “Persepolis”, her early childhood was spent in an easygoing way. She was brought up in a well-to-do family. She had mother, father, and even a maid. Her father had a Cadillac. Everything has fundamentally changed when she was ten…

From the book “The Complete Persepolis” by Maryjane Satrapi. “It had been four years since I had such a well-stocked store, the first Aisle I headed was the one with scented detergents, we couldn’t find them in Iran anymore’’. This quote has moved me because it reminds me the suffering and hardship of the people. Most of the country today were still living in the poverty and unhealthy lifestyles. Maryjane could not believe what she has seen in Vienna store a place she can buy whatever she wants.…

women who were improperly veiled. (Like me, for example)” (Satrapi, 132). Marji states that their job is to “put us back on the straight and narrow by explaining the duties of Muslim women” (Satrapi, 133). The guardians of the revolutions defend these restrictions of freedom by identifying them as responsibilities of Muslim…

Within the text “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas”, a firsthand account of the actions taken by early Christian martyrs is displayed in vivid detail. The interactions frame an insightful look into the life of a Christian who was being prosecuted, showcasing how gender and the outside world both influenced how and why Perpetua and her fellow Christians were martyred. Perpetua, the main character and narrator of this text, is a woman who refuses to give up her faith even though she is…

sitting in an airport in Paris. While sitting in the airport she begins to have flashbacks of her past and childhood. This new scene may have been added to make the film more interesting. Something to notice is the use of color. In the graphic novel, Satrapi mostly uses black and white while using grey very occasionally. In the film, we see some color in the present scenes of adult…