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Few experiences are more difficult than coming of age, especially amidst turmoil. In Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman, she endeavors to overcome the challenges that arise from her Muslim heritage, the corruption of her country, and developing her identity as a woman in a patriarchal society. She describes life in post-revolutionary Iran and then Austria in the 1980s. In spite of Muslim stereotypes, the death of Neda, and social inequalities, Marjane’s struggle for freedom, justice, and…

Set in the late 1970’s, award-winning film Argo, is based on the real story of the Iran hostage crisis. The film begins after the US government takes in the Shah, with Iranians attacking the US embassy in Iran, resulting in the capture of sixty American embassy staff (Argo). Argo exclusively shares Tony Mendez’s effort to exfiltrate the six American embassy staff that manage to sneak away, from Iran (Argo). This is accomplished as Mendez and the six Americans pose as Canadian filmmakers, while…

Persepolis Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It was an eye-opening, heartbreaking and thought provoking book— I had many thoughts and feelings while reading, so much so that I had to put it down multiple times to take a breather. It is amazing how she could remember and write about her life growing up during Islamic revolution and the Iran Iraq war, a time of operation and dejection at the age of ten. During the revolution, and some…

In his most recent piece of work, The Coup, he covers the nationalization of oil in Iran, and how the poor negotiations among Britain, the United States and Iran led to a coup orchestrated by the CIA and Britain to overthrow the leader of Iran, Mohammad Moseddeq. There have been several books written covering these events, but in The Coup Abrahamian challenges three commonly held beliefs about the events in 1953: that that the British acted in good faith in the negotiations of the Anglo-Persian…

The authors of the three passages all had a similar perspective on the rebellion, in which they were not too fond of the ideas of the Regime. Many of the things the authors described were about the idea of Islamic women having to obey the rules that the regime has created or they will face severe consequences for their actions. The creation of this unjust regime was right after the Iranian Revolution which caused there to be an overthrow of the pro-western Shah of Iran. So, Islamic people…

During the course of the Iranian Revolution, there were many conflicts in the fight between individual freedoms and collective national obligations. Ideally, individual freedoms and collective national obligations should coincide, but they clearly did not coincide during the Iranian Revolution. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi and "Individualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities" by Edward Younkins affect the readers' views on individual freedoms and…

Persepolis is written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud takes the viewer through Marjane’s life from childhood into her adulthood. The movie takes place in Iran and in Austria. Throughout the movie, it shows how the Iranian and Islamic revolution impacted Marjanes’s life. She starts as a young child interested in politics, but is faced with a countless amount of hardships, as she grows older. The tensions in Iran cause her parents to send her to France to go to school, but…

Book Review Who’s Marjane Satrapi? In Persepolis The Story Of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi tells a story of a young girl named Marjane growing up in Tehran, Iran during the Islamic revolution. You see her grow up from a small girl to a grown woman; the author illustrates this story in comic book form. The three main characters are Marjane, her father and mother. In the book she follows in her parent’s footsteps in political protesting, she fights for what she believes and at times it might…

Laughing without an accent is a story about how Firoozeh Dumas grew up in America growing up Iranian. During her life she had some struggles because of the prejudices that Americans treated her with during different times of her life because of what was going on between Iran and the United States like the hostage crisis. The author Firoozeh Dumas wrote the story about herself where she is the main character in her book. Firoozeh Dumas wrote her story from when she was a little girl living in…

Words can only be descriptive to an extent, they are searched for to best define what is being put in place for a reader to use their imagination. Although through images every little detail that was stated can be left unsaid, providing the author a chance to have the reader think the way they want them too, imagination does not have to go far off into wondering what was taking place, connecting to the writer’s point of view. Within the book Persepolis, author Marjane Satrapi best describes her…