Marjane Satrapi The Veil Analysis

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The short story “The Veil” by Marjane Satrapi used drawing to describe how she was a ten year old forced to wear a veil and how it changed her view of her surroundings. Using drawing and writing makes readers think and interpret the feeling and the situation that was going on. Satrapi uses dark faces and bright backgrounds for the things that made her insecure, and she uses a black background and a white face to show the happy faces or the positive feelings. In the February 1, 2012, article in Library Journal “Drawing on Reality” by Bonnie Brzozowski, Bonnie wrote, “A black-and-white illustrations are simply, yet capable of portraying great emotion.”(Brzozowski 34) Satrapi was struggling and trying to find reason and meaning in the world that she now came across that forced her to wear a veil and oppressed her with the strict Islamic revolution in the black and white graphic short story. Wearing a veil changed a ten-year-old Satrapi’s perspective on the world.
In her short story “The Veil” Satrapi uses the drawing of how she felt when she …show more content…

God was asking her “you want to be a doctor...” (Satrapi 569) Satrapi’s face shows guilt because she told her parents that she wants to become a doctor, not a prophet, when that’s not what she wants. This is a ten-year-old with a vision to be a prophet, but she can’t even share that because she felt she is going to disappoint her parents. On the other hand, she is letting God down by becoming a doctor. Satrapi then tells god “No, no I will be a prophet, but they mustn’t know.” (Satrapi 569) Satrapi, the girl with big dreams to be a prophet wants to become “…justice, love and the wrath of god all in one” (Satrapi 569). Satrapi uses her two last drawings of herself wearing a white gown with black and white prints to try and show how she is bringing together both worlds, her spirituality that guides her to be a prophet and her secular desire to help those in need,

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