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The Maus and Persepolis While we read a story, we can compare it to ourselves as well as to our community. We can imagine how these people lived at that time, and how were their conditions only by reading a small detail. Those small details make the reader to have more information about that time as well as about the characters. The two stories that we are looking at are Maus and Persepolis. The first story talks about holocaust, which was the killing of millions of Jews by Nazi during World War II, and how the Jews suffered during that period. The main character is Valdek, who is one of the survivals and tell the story to his son Art. People lived their life normally before that event, and after it who survived continued their life with all…

The opening credits of Persepolis (2007) feature a flower moving across the screen, travelling through the different places depicted during the titles. This quite simple feature helps to introduce the audience to the main premise of the film - moving; mobility; change and growth. Marjane Satrapi’s film debut Persepolis (2007), made together with Vincent Paronnaud, is an autobiography based on Satrapi’s similarly titled graphic novel. This French-Iranian animated film deals with the subject of…

The novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi tells a story of a girl’s childhood during a revolution. To tell the story of Marjane’s childhood, Satrapi uses background, spacing and the speech bubbles with the text inside of them to demonstrate the change of her character where she becomes more mature. The two frames for my Persepolis essay were frames on the page 70, middle right and bottom left. Both of the frames happen in the middle of the novel. Before seeing those frames we learn that Marjane…

Photo Essay In “Persepolis” , Marjane Satrapi, the author/ main character describes her personal experiences during the Iranian Revolution, which happened when she was only a little girl. In doing so, she accurately represents nationalism, revolution, and political awareness. NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND POLITICAL AWARENESS Nationalism. Persepolis is a book that dives much deeper into a childhood conflict than any other book. Throughout the entire story, Marjane is extremely nationalistic. She…

Marjane Satrapi, the author of «Persepolis», was born in 1969 in Iran, in an aristocratic family, belonging to the Qajar dynasty, whose members ruled Iran between 1781 and 1925. Despite their origins, Satrapi's parents shared the ideas of communism, and her uncle had even been executed for his political beliefs. (Tulli) "Persepolis" is a story of Marjane Satrapi growing up in her native Iran. The events in the book take place in the period from 1979 until the end of the 80’s. The overthrowing…

The book Persepolis tells the story of young Marjane Satrapi and her experience during the Islamic Revolution. Starting at ten years old, she endured things that are incomprehensible to most others. Marjane Satrapi’s perspective in Persepolis affected her view of religion, her loss of innocents, and her knowledge on social classes. Throughout her journey, Marjane gained knowledge on many serious topics; completely transforming her childhood into somewhat of a nightmare. Loss of innocence is…

parents. Throughout the novels Persepolis and MAUS, two parent-child relationships are witnessed that help in evaluating and comparing the different parenting styles two different parents with different environments and circumstances adopt. The two parent child relationships that will occupy the focus of this essay are that of Marjie and her mother and the other is Artie and Vladek. The comparison and contrast between the permissive type of parenting style in the case of Marjie and her mother…

An Examination of the Identities of Tayo and Marji in Response to Their Environments Two timeless books, Ceremony and Persepolis, each feature completely separate characters and situations--yet manage to masterfully work together to develop the same themes. This is through the use of a person’s surroundings impacting the psychological being of him or her. However, it is important to note that both characters started the novels as pure and healthy, and only began to change as a result of the…

superhero series come to mind. However, it is a common misconception that graphic novel only have the power to convey silly scenarios or fantasy action stories. In reality, there is more to graphic novels than just fiction. Meaning that they can also be of the nonfictional genre and one example of being Maus by American comic book artist, Art Spiegelman. Maus is a two volume-set story of Spiegelman's father, Vladek Spiegelman, and how he survived the holocaust. The graphic novel became famous…