Yasmina Reza

What do you think of when you hear the name of the country Iran? The book Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi is written about a ten-year-old girl named Marji living in Iran during the revolution. Although there are many apparent differences between us and Marji, the author was able to show that we and our ways of life are very similar. The Iranian revolution was a time of great turmoil and conflict, with a lot of violence, oppression, and fear. This may seem sound bad, but this is not far…

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…

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel Persepolis received global recognition for sharing growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, and was thus turned into a film under the directing of Satrapi. The coming of age story explores many themes connected to the idea of captivity and freedom. This essay will explore captivities and freedoms within both the novel and film mediums of Persepolis, and how these two versions of the same story are capable as well as limited in exploring this…

1953 Iranian Coup d’Etat The study of this event goes back to the post-WWII discussions over Iranian oil. For many years, whilst being politically involved in Iran, the US had not pursued comprehensive economic ties. For decades, Iran had hosted oil concessions owned by the USSR and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Britain), and these two powers held significant power in the region. They alone controlled most of Iran's oil reserves, a vital key to Iranian economic stability and strength. Although…

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…

The movie describes Iran and its political status and cultural differences that Betty(who was married with Iranian Mohmoody) had to deal with. The story of the film shows the different cultures and norms of Muslim Iranians. 1.In the movie we can see clearly the gender stereotypes that Iran had. In the scene that Betty goes to American Embassy finally the woman in embassy told to Betty that this is Iran once you get married the father of your child has the custody of her children. In our…

A Separation Asghar Farhadi's A Separation provides commentary on the current political and social situation surrounding Iran through the exploration of a middle-class couple's divorce and the conflicts that proceed as a result. There are many separations within the film, notably a separation of men and women. The dominance of men is presented within the first scene between Simin and Hader. Simin's request for a divorce and guardianship over her daughter is met with resistance, as Nader is the…