...“One can forgive but one should never forget” (Satrapi 4). This is the last and most memorable sentence of the introduction, as well as one key lesson in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis. This unique graphic novel is an autobiographical memoir of Satrapi’s life during a rough period of time that lasted many years in twentieth century Iran. Her story is set during the Iranian Revolution, where the reader can see Marjane grow up before their eyes and go through all the turbulent stages in her life. Marjane, the main character is a strong, rebellious and passionate girl that has a strong faith in god and fights for what she believes in; liberty. The novel features and is mainly centered on her whole family and what they go through as well. Marjane comes from a very brave and strong family, her ancestors have fought for their freedom and she and her family continue...
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...Hi babe In the graphic novel, “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi brings to light the devastations in her life in Tehran during the Iranian revolution of 1973 as well as the eight year war with Iraq. She was forced upon a life surrounded by Middle Eastern conflicts and policies that became unavoidable. After Satrapi and her parents came back from their vacation one day, they later find out from her grandma that Iraq and Iran were at war with one another, having the country’s strict government policies, military forces, and eliminating all those who protested against it. Because we can see what is happening from an innocent point of view during Satrapi’s life, the pain and violence that was expressed throughout the novel is based upon the real suffering...
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...Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, published in New York City in 2003. This book is about the life of a little girl growing up in Iran. She wrote about her struggles and the oppressive government. I chose the slide on page 71, where Anoosh has just died and Marjane feels like her life has been uprooted. She was very close with her uncle and she was very distraught when he died. This slide portrays her disappointment that Marjane felt. Tragic events like losing a loved one can dramatically change anyone’s view of religion, or even life as a whole. There are many comic book techniques used in Option 2 (Satrapi, 71) that help show dramatic effect. There is some Open paneling used in this panel that really helps show dramatic effect. It shows the reader that Marjane was extremely sad and shocked to hear about Anoosh’s death. There is also a narratory block on the top and bottom of this page. The top block tells us how she was “lost, without and bearings... what could be worse than that.”(Satrapi, 71) This shows us how without god, who she had recently said she never wanted to see again, she was helpless and lost in life. The other narratory block at the bottom said...
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...In 2000, Marjane Satrapi published an autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, The Story of a Childhood, exhibiting her undergoing in Iran. In the novel she depicts the shift in her spiritual and mental development, as well as her views of society. The first major alteration is in her religious beliefs, from being close to religion to distancing herself from it. Marjane next shows growth in understanding what occurs in her country and society. In the beginning of the novel Marjane is depicted as very religious, but as the novel goes on she questions her religion until she eventually forgets about her beliefs. The novel opens up with her questioning the veil, and she justifies why she should wear it and why she can’t. Marjane states, “I really didn’t know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde.” (Frame 1, pg. 6) This shows...
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...Ensayo persépolis ¿Como la revolución iraní causo grandes cambios negativos en las vidas de los ciudadanos? Basándose en la película Persépolis de Mariane Satrapi. Es difícil entender y obedecer una ley que obliga a las personas a cambiar su forma de vida. En la película Persépolis escrita por Marjane Satrapi, se vieron muchos cambios en la forma de vida de las personas durante la revolución. Persépolis fue escrito basado en recuerdos de la infancia de Satrapi visto desde de los ojos de un niño. La escritora y por ende protagonista, explica las dificultades que vivió por tener que cambiar su forma de ser y se muestra claramente que se metía en problemas con el fin de expresar las cosas q no le gustaban. No fue sólo Satrapi la que tuvo que enfrentar cambios, también otras familias es incluso toda la sociedad estaban sufriendo esta imposición de poder. Además de que hubieron muchos cambios, se vio como esta revolución logro crear un impacto en los militares, en la educación, en las mujeres y en los niños. Para empezar, los militares comenzaron a reclutar adolescentes de tan solo catorce años que Vivian en la pobreza, lo cual crea un cambio en el aspecto militar de esta sociedad. Esto puede ser considerado un gran cambio en el sistema militar ya que un niño de catorce años aun es considerado inmaduro y con poco desarrollo mental y físico. Su destino seguro en el ejercito era la muerte. Muchos de estos niños fueron engañados para unirse al ejercito, pues les daban una llave...
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...Bible Dictionary Project Template Name: Kaili Brown Student ID: L23500986 Course: BIBL 104 Survey Of Biblical Literature Date:February 22, 2016 Old Testament Bible Dictionary Project: Song Of Solomon Written in poem format, The Song Of Solomon in the Old Testament remains the sole, out of thousands penned by the author, preserved throughout history. The royal son of David, Solomon wrote the song when he was a young romantic, before participating in many matrimonies and concubines that were detrimental to his spirituality and Godly leadership. Possessing two birth names, Solomon or Jedidiah is applied throughout the Song. Written between 970 to 930 BC, the poem deals with the romantic relationship between Solomon and a Shulamite woman. Grasping the text in our time, The Song presents the truth about God’s desire for human love and the union of a husband and wife. Love, as an earthly illustration in comparison to the beautiful relationship between Christ and His church (Ephesians) is the nurturing relationship between a man and a woman encompassing holiness and safety of the marriage covenant. Setting the foundation for the relationship between God and His love for his people, The Song depicts how God designed sexual union to be a mutually fulfilling, unselfish and nonsecular. Mighty within Gods plan of marriage, it is spiritual; emotionally and physically constructive. Exercised outside of His will proves to be destructive and sinful creating countless problems...
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...Oppression on Women in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is memoir of a little girl growing in Iran. She refers to a secular pre revolutionary time through contrast, the oppressive characteristics of the fundamentalist government upon women in particular. Her work is a lot similar to Margaret Atwood's, A Handmaid’s Tale, in which the protagonist Offred reflects upon her former life’s freedom, cherishing her former name and in doing so emphasizes the cloistered and enslaved life that she must now endure. Although both Margaret Atwood and Satrapi show how a totalitarian state oppresses women in different ways by taking away the freedom to think and decide for oneself, both accentuating on the ways a woman should dress, which stratified society in Handmaid’s tale and enforced religious modesty in Persepolis. Growing up in the western society, we often think clothing as a means of expressing our individuality, our style, defining who we are. Offred grew up in a similar environment but it was taken away once she became a Handmaid. That was the precise reason why she felt “ fascinated but also repelled” (28) at the same time when she saw the Japanese tourist. She says she “used to dress like that. That was freedom. Westernized they used to call it”(28). She says this because she no longer gets to dress like the tourists any more. In a very little amount of time, the society has forced every individual to change...
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...Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography. It covers her childhood and teenage years in her hometown, Tehran; her experiences abroad while she studies at the French Lyceum in Austria; and her return to a country devastated by war and mistreated by the Regime. Therefore it is hardly surprising that the protagonist’s identity is formed at the crossroads of two cultures, the Western and the Eastern ones, without really belonging to either of them. Satrapi herself has stated that “[she is] a foreigner in Iran. . . Nowhere is [her] home any more” (Tully, 2004) and this feeling of alienation is materialised throughout the work. Thus, Persepolisrevels in the middle-grounds between opposite stances, with images which are able to show the complexity both of the situation in her country and of the author’s personal life. One of the richest and most representative images may be this one: Satrapi, Marjane (2006) Persepolis (London: Jonathan Cape, 283, 3) This image shows the picture that she had to draw to pass the exam for university, where she would study fine arts. She knew that, in the wake of Iran-Iraq war, when propaganda was overwhelming and 40 % of places were reserved for martyrs’and handicapped people’s children, one of the exam topics would be the martyrs’ representation. This image constitutes an interesting re-interpretation of both Christian and Muslim religious symbology. Thus, we can read, in the text box above, that: I practiced by copying a photo of Michelangelo’s...
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... It is hard to understand and obey any law forcing individuals to change their way of living. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi there were many changes in the way of living during the Revolution. Persepolis was written based on Satrapi’s childhood memories through her eyes as a child. Satrapi explains the difficulties she had changing her usual ways and getting in trouble for expressing herself with the things she liked. It was not just Satrapi who faced changes but other families as well and even the society as a whole. Although there were many changes in the lifestyles of many, there was a great impact on the military, women, education and in many adolescences. To begin, the military began recruiting teenage boys at age fourteen living in poverty which created a change in the military. This was a change within the military because at fourteen one is still considered immature and has not mentally or physically developed to the fullest. To join the military one should be mature and fully grown. Many of these fourteen year old boys were tricked into joining the military. They were given a key painted gold representing value. They were told if they were fortunate enough to die, the golden key would open the door into heaven. They were promised a better life than the one they were living in the lower class. As Mrs. Nasrine, Satrapi’s maid, explains, “‘They told him that in paradise there will be plenty of food, women and houses made of gold and diamonds’”...
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...Persepolis and the Iran-Iraq War Persepolis, is a graphic novel, by Marjane Satrapi, the story follows the life of a young girl growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revelation, and later during the Iran-Iraq war. Throughout the story Satrapi focuses on the major cultural difference between her and her family and the other people, and how it changes as the story progresses, with different forms of government controlling Iran. "Following the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Iraqi leadership sought to exploit Iran's military and political chaos in order to resolve border disputes, gain control of Iran's oil-rich western province, and achieve hegemony in the Persian Gulf" (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia) Since many of the Iranian air force pilots where in jail for being members of the revelation the Iraq air force was able to attack Iran with little resistance. This was mentioned in Persepolis when Marjane and her parents are talking and they hear the national anthem of Iran, and the news caster announces that the Iranian pilots have been released and have attacked Iraq. During the war Iran stores had a lack of quantity and people where fighting over the things that the stores had. Like in the scene in Persepolis when Marjane and her mother went shopping and they witnessed two woman fighting over something. Marjane's mother tried to separate them, but they turned on her, so Marjane suggested they leave. Iraq continued to bomb cities in Iran kill many Iranian civilians, and people...
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...historical, religious, or political matter for many years. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is one of the examples; it is about a young Iranian girl’s life, when the Islamic Revolution in 1979 occurred. The Islamic Revolution has taken a significant part in Satrapi’s life, especially as she was transitioning into a young woman. It was a time where wearing a veil was obligatory and bilingual schools had to close down because they were thought of as a symbol of capitalism. It was also a time where Iran was divided into two ideologies, fundamentalism and modernity. The streets were full of conflict between them and it was not a strange thing to see both of them clash on a day-to-day basis. Satrapi emphasizes the distinction between the two ideologies in Iran through her use of symbolism, graphics, and layout. Satrapi’s use of symbolism in the novel is one of the factors that distinguish the two ideologies apart, such as the wine. The wine symbolizes the act of rebellion that the modern Iranians did to defy the fundamentalist’s beliefs (p.108). Satrapi also symbolizes the veil as a form of restriction towards modernists (p.74). The women are obligated to wear a veil; this results to a diminishing of their freedom. This way, the wine and the veil have become a barrier between fundamentalists and modernists, and have become some of the factors that cause a conflict between them. Another significant factor is Satrapi’s use of graphics to illustrate the clear distinction between the two...
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...might prove a nuisance if left to themselves" (178). Assimilation includes allowing someone to change your name because it's easier, to stop using your native language, and the eventual loss of that language, to give up parts of your culture in order to fit in (clothes, ect.). her everyday life in the hopes of finding a more empowered identity for herself. use of western culture to indivilize themselves In Alan Ball’s film Towelhead (2008) and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis (2000/2001), the adolescent female protagonists from Middle Eastern cultures desire to empower their own identities through utilizing Western media and its images of independent women, as well as the role models they encounter in their actual lives. background must find the perfect balance between what is expected of them in their environments and what they desire as individuals. From the time that they are born, these girls have social expectations created for them by the men in their lives. In the beginning of both Persepolis and Towelhead, this is exactly how the adolescents live their lives, conforming to society rather than being individuals in any positive sense. Because they are so young and unaware of how empowered women can be in other parts of the world, they are stuck in their own self-created states of disempowerment in their own countries (like Iran and Lebanon). As Marjane and Jasira grow older, they begin to look past their specific cultures’ morals and begin to...
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...“How westernisation is portrayed by symbols in Persepolis?” Persepolis Rationale Marjane Satrapi tries to show the different faces of the Iranian society through the various characters in her debut novel ‘Persepolis’. By highlighting the divergent cultural groups and classes in her novel, she tries to highlight the heterogeneous class and social structure prevalent in the Iranian society. For example when she says that “our maid did not eat with us” and “because my father had a Cadillac”, she is directly referring to the class and social structure in her society which unfortunately exists in all other societies – whether secular or fundamentalist. By depicting the predominance of western values and culture in her own family she creates a distinct class structure in the opening parts of the novel itself. One hand there is a ‘veil’ of fundamentalism in the society which has been thrust upon by the religious and fundamentalist groups in the country. On the other hand there are ‘decadent’ groups like Satrapi’s families that should prescribe to the dictatorial fundamentalist regime. Supporting examples: • Her conversations with intellectuals and revolutionists o Her conversations with Anoush and his death. • Her changing stages about religion, the king and politics o Affected by the information she was told by her parents ▪ Her grandfather being royalty ▪ They go to private parties o They consume alcohol and attend parties even...
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...Persepolis Essay Pesepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel depicting the life of Marjane Satrapi during the Iranian Revolution. In the early pages, Marjane illustrates that she saw herself as a prophet. She wanted to change the world, and with the help of God, she thought that she could. During Satrapi’s early childhood, the traditions and history of Iran had been going through drastic changes. The Iranian Revolution was when Iran’s monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and replaced with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who led the revolution. ii Persepolis is framed during 1979 and after the Iranian Revolution. The Shah of Persia was overthrown and eventually replaced by an Islamist government during this time. Satrapi narrates her experience of the Revolution, which includes bombings, violent deaths of family and friends, and inequality. Women of Iran had many restrictions, and the leaders of Iran had disrespected them in many ways and belittled them as citizens. I The Islam religion forces women to wear veils for many reasons. Satrapi shows us how men saw themselves superior to woman and how most women did not enjoy the attitudes of men and also following certain obligations like wearing the veil. Following the Revolution, intense social changes took place in what had previously been a liberal country, became a religious republic. Her family lived through many events. She discusses how her mother told her that the regime burned...
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...Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiography graphic novel. The book is about a young girl named Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In the book, many stories and struggles are presented, such as the Islamic revolution, issues with school, the war between Iran and Iraq, and Satrapi’s struggle with growing up. The strongest theme from all of these situations in the novel is rebellion. Rebellion is constantly seen, in many different shapes and forms, all throughout this book. In the beginning of the book (page 3) it became obligatory to wear the veil at school. The panel at the bottom of the page shows the children rebelling against the veil by using not wearing the veil properly. They make a mockery of the situation because they didn’t understand why they had to wear the veil. This rebellion against the rules and the veil repeats several times throughout the novel when it mentions and illustrates the women wearing veils with some of their hair showing, which is not how it is supposed to be worn. Marjane’s mother later gets insulted by fundamentalists because she wasn’t wearing the veil. However Marjane’s mother would continue wearing the veil in public like all the other woman but wouldn’t wear at home. The people in Iran obey and don’t rebel for example (on page 75) Marjane’s neighbors change by wearing a chador and mouth washing every time they utter the word “alcohol.” Another example of rebellion comes later in...
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