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In the book Persepolis, a non-fiction piece about the author Marjane Satrapi’s life in a changing Iran, Satrapi explores the idea of tensions between old and new by referencing conversations with her grandma, talking about parties, the transition of the veil into society, talking about her school, noting the demonstrations that took place in the streets, and discussing the cultural revolution that occurred. Satrapi purposefully communicates this theme to the audience to contrast the Iran she grew

The American government is known to promote democratic values throughout the world. Though the ideals America was fighting for during the Cold War, the government still managed to participate in the overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Mossadegh threatened to nationalize Iran’s oil in 1951 and later gained the support of the Iranian government. The British companies had many investments in Iranian oil. It is with the approval of nationalization that the economies

Persepolis is an autobiography of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in her native Iran. She writes about being a child in Iran through the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. As Satrapi recounts stories of her youth, one can observe that the Iran-Iraq war and the Iranian revolution are the central events driving the entire story. When the revolution and war happens, the dynamics of the book change completely. War creates a sense of unity and nationalism. Marjane shows a large contrast between her

Persepolis is an autobiography by the author Marjane Satrapi that tells us and teaches us all about her childhood up to her early adult years. This autobiography all takes place in Iran before and during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi writes about her own coming of age experience throughout her novel. Satrapi shares about her experiences living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution that took place during 1979 as a young girl. Satrapi also talks about living her life a certain way and having

Upon completing the first part of The Complete Persepolis, I have found myself to be enlightened to the significant historical movement of the Islamic Revolution. This period of history, portrayed by an engrossing storyline and modern graphic illustrations of Marjane Satrapi's childhood, introduced me to many diverse aspects of Iranian lifestyle that wouldn't have been depicted through biographies or informational articles. As I delved further into the book, I became increasingly invested in Marjane's

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is a vivid coming-of-age graphic memoir that chronicles the author’s varied experiences growing up during and after the nineteen seventy-nine Islamic revolution in Iran. In her introduction to Persepolis, Marjane explains her reasons for writing the novel, claiming that Iran was not only a country of “fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism” (Satrapi, introduction) and she hoped that by sharing her personal stories of Iran she would humanize the country to her western

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi depicts the childhood of a precocious young girl, Marji, during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Satrapi vividly portrays the story of Marji’s life from ages six to fourteen by using symbols of Western popular culture, which recur several times. In doing so, Satrapi forces the reader to question the impact of the West on the development of Marji’s character. Motif of Western popular culture illustrates Marji’s transition from childhood to adolescence, declaring that

The book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, was written by Marjane Satrapi; it is the story of her life in Iran from birth to fourteen years old. The perspective of Marjane, in her novel, affects the overall presentation of revolution, religion, and social classes. Consequently, with no background knowledge, we only have her perspective which affects our own opinion about the events of the book. With this impression in mind, the theme for the picture above is religion; it shows “Women

Growing up at a Young Age During a person’s teenage years, one is most vulnerable to trauma that occurs around them. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane lives through a revolution in her own country. The story speaks to her loss of innocence during the revolution and how she goes through her life. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is going through the Holocaust with his father and he witnesses many major and scarring events. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah,

The film Persepolis is an animated movie about a young girl named Marjane. Throughout the movie Marjane encounters many circumstances in her life that teach her to have courage and be brave. As she matures her lifestyle plays a tremendous role on her outlook of life and people. Marjane’s life is the plot of the movie. Bildungsroman expresses how cultural influences can affect an individual in Persepolis by emphasizing four major elements such as, the grandmother’s alter ego, her parental influences