Marjane Satrapi

have to leave behind their culture out of need and learn to live and blend into another culture that is automatically hostile to them. Darling and Marjane both go through radical transformations as they grow. Both of them are heavily influenced by a need to fit in and they are both surrounded by racism and systems designed to disadvantage Immigrants. Marjane and Darling flee to western countries to escape the dangers of their country and to get educated and have a future not as doomed as that of…

Marjane Satrapi is both the author and the main character of her graphic novel, Persepolis. Through the novel she describes her own growing up experiences and her perspectives, both as a child and an adult. Marjane’s perspective affects the way some of the more mature topics are presented such as Imperialism, Nationalism, and treatment of social classes.This photo demonstrates Imperialism because the pizza is like the smaller countries or civilizations, and the people grabbing the pizza are the…

taken place in another time or place things would change and stay the same. Satrapi shared, “Everywhere in the streets there where demonstrations for and against the vail.” People will still disapprove of the higher power or government to change what has been, on the other hand, groups will be supportive of the new regulations.…

that's true, people have been demanding freedom for all of history. Freedom is a right for everybody and it should not have to be demanded. Luisa Valenzuela’s “The Censors”, “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King jr, and “Persepolis 2” written by Marjane Satrapi are all examples of the struggle for freedom. Valenzuela’s “The Censors” tells about how the government took away freedom of speech. Nobody should have to be scared to send a letter, or worried that the person to whom the letter is to…

Sakinah Worsham Mrs. Kearney Lit/Comp. 10 30 Nov. 2016 Persepolis Analysis In the graphic novel, Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, there is an image that covers the top row on page 5. This image has a white background, which suggests that the image is set outside. On the left side of the image, there are four women draped in black “veils”. The two women in the front have their fists in the air and all of them have their heads slightly up. All of them have their eyes closed and they are…

theocratic government had a Supreme Leader who enacted legal changes, not for the will of the people, but for his own agenda. The drastic shift moved away from Western ideologies into a brutal environment for many Iranians; these changes are depicted in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis. Legislative shifts affected everyone, regardless of age, class or gender: “patriarchal norms and notions such as, “man is the head of the family”, “woman is the second sex”, and “women and children…

feeling: is a decision you have to make every day” – Al Carraway. In the essay “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, he explains how his faith was lost because God didn’t save him at the revival that his aunt invited him. In the other essay “The veil” by Marjane Satrapi, she describes how a revolution made them do stuff they didn’t want to and how she wanted to be a prophet when she grew up. These two pieces talk about religion and how they have impact them in their life’s. Faith an issue that every…

When reading Marjane Satrapi’s novel, The Complete Persepolis, it was first kind of odd. The reason of oddness being that, the book was filled from cover to cover in drawings; it raised a thought about the seriousness of the idea the author was trying to portray. Although the way the author composed this book seemed unorthodox for such an impactful work of literature, its setup played a compelling role in the telling the story. Satrapi automatically catches the readers’ attention with…

The graphic novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, recounts her childhood and early adulthood in the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war that inevitably followed. During the revolution traditionalists attempted to refine what it meant to be an Iranian in fundamentalist Islamic terms in order to go against the ways of the West. Marjane Satrapi writes this story about how Iranians tried to deal with changes in their everyday life and how it changed the way they lived.…

In all of my life, I been stereotyped or I have stereotyped someone or something we use it almost every day. First of all, what is stereotype and second why do we use it? According to Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald who are Professors of psychology and authors of “On Stereotypes” claim that stereotypes is a form of categorizing, “Once formed, categories are the basis for normal prejudgment. We cannot possibly avoid this process. Orderly living depends on it” (613). In other words,…