Persepolis

Though there was an immense range in which who were the targeted readers for Satrapi’s book, Persepolis, it seemed to be that the book was more designed for young adults reaching to gain more insight towards the conditions in Iran around the time of the Islamic Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. Satrapi’s decision in writing Persepolis as a graphic novel opened up the range of audience for her book. Because the book was filled with pages of illustrations, it made reading a lot easier. As pictures…

“Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself” (150), is the advice given to Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel, Persepolis, by her grandmother, prior to her departure from Iran for Vienna as a conflicted adolescent, raised in a tumultuous and war-torn environment. This statement has a profound impact on Marjane, the protagonist herself, at different stages in her life and recurs throughout the book, whether she is adhering to the advice or sharply contradicting it. The theme of…

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,…

by environment, personal experience, society, family, and a variety of other factors. This is why Marjane Satrapi’s unique influences affect her perspective on how she portrays imperialism, social classes, and revolution in her life and the book Persepolis. This photograph shows the United States and Europe taking the natural resources out of Africa. This represents imperialism because it shows how the more powerful countries extend their influence to get Africa’s resources and just take it out…

an interesting way of storytelling in Persepolis, perhaps the allure of reading the novel is due to Satrapi telling the story using pictures rather than just words like a traditional novel or is it because she depicted character development within Marjane showing her life from a child to adult in which we can relate to. Satrapi uniquely showed readers what is it like to grow up in a political conflict in which leading to Satrapi using women's role in Persepolis to craft the character Marjane to…

story. Why is that? Well it’s simple, the siblings have different perspectives. Nobody’s perspective is ever going to be exactly the same as someone else and the person’s perspective will affect how that person presents a story, topic, or idea. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s perspective affects how she presents many things, such as nationalism, religion, and social classes. The picture at left depicts many people coming together showing their love and pride for their country by…

People are affected by culture everyday of their life; sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. A girl named Marjane Satrapi in the autobiography Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was impacted by a cultural revolution. Turning her life turn upside down. Over the course of a few years she had turned from a child to a young teen, experiencing the violence of war and eventually moving to Austria without her family. She was impacted greatly by the government, social organization, and changing…

women to describe another women it argues how discrimination could not only responsible by Iranian men. If women were describing each other in suc vulgar ways, what was so wrong with men doing it also? Author Hillary Chute argues that Satrapi wrote Persepolis by modeling a feminist methodology bias, since the author is narrating herself throughout (Chute). As in any good writing, a bias writer is not present. In this case, it is questionable as if Satrapi was in fact writing bias when portraying…

role of women and their femininity during the New Regime. Persepolis is written during the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. The novel is written to illustrate how the Islamic Revolution leads to change culture and society in Iran. “In 1997 a revolution took place. It was later called The Islamic revolution.” (Satrapi 3) Satrapi writes how during the Islamic Revolution it was a difficult time for families, but mostly for the women. Persepolis shows how in 1979 Iran’s monarchy was overthrown…

to Jeannette Walls’ nomadic lifestyle in The Glass Castle, the use of writing to depict one’s life has become a prominent concept amongst various authors. One author who encapsulated this concept in particular was Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis. Born in Tehran, Iran in 1969, Marjane Satrapi was subjected to a variety violence that broke out during the Iran-Iraq (1980-1988) and the Iranian Revolution (1979-present.) The plethora of mass murders and attacks ultimately led to Satrapi…