Examples Of Stereotypes In Persepolis

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people outside the middle east see the area different from people who live there. In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi,, is about her when she was a little girl in Iran during the iranian revolution starring in 1979, when everything started to change for her starting with “the veil.” Satrapi was ineffective in showing that the middle eastern stereotypes does not reflect the majority of iranian people through single story's meaning, talks about one person's point of view. Marjane Satrapi was a different kind of little girl than the rest of them in Iran at the time she went through a 80’s american rebel stage, and a stage of wanting to be “justice, love and wrath of god all in one.” (Satrapi 9)

In the book, Satrapi seems to write only about the bad thing that happen in the middle east and only explains her story and not the story of others which gives readers a single story perspective, she also explains some events she witnessed. “people came out carrying the body of a young man killed by the army. He was honored like a martyr a crowd gathered to take him to the baneshte zahara cemetery” (Satrapi 31) when Satrapi writes about these incidents its shows people that at the time these stereotypes are mostly true about the middle eastern region and the people who live there. …show more content…

“Ahmadi was assassinated. As a member of the Guerrillas, he suffered hell’… ‘but he was taken by surprise and unfortunately he never had a chance to use it.. So he suffered the worst toucher.” (Satrapi 51) Satrapi describes ahmadi’s torture and execution and how they wiped him burned him with iron and cigarettes then peed on his wounds then cut into

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