Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

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For the interactive oral my group and I discussed the cultural and contextual considerations of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. During our discussion, we analysed the significance of God in the novel as well as the composition of the graphic novel. Throughout the discussion, we came to an understanding that it was influential that Marjane Satrapi chooses the composition for Persepolis to a graphics novel as it was intentionally written in French about Marjane's childhood during the Iranian revolution and later translated to English. Therefore, in Shanelle's assertion from http://cbldf.org/2013/06/using-graphic-novels-in-education-persepolis/, it discusses that "Readers of all ages get a glimpse of what life is like under repressive regimes and …show more content…

Nevertheless, I do believe that the readers got to view what life is like under repressive regimes from Marjane's experience and through visual literacy. Therefore, I find Marjane benefits telling her story as a graphic novel rather than text novel as she can express her story in ways words can't. The graphics in the novel are like the saying a picture can tell a thousand words and this is exactly the approach the graphics had towards capturing Marjane's childhood during the Iranian revolution. They give us a diagnostic view of the world from Marjane's perspective. For instance, the torture panel on page 54, immerses the reader even though it is drawn from a Marjane's perspective and the restrictive information she was told, as it captures their eye taking up half the page and not having a frame leading them to think there was more to the story although it all couldn't be captured. The discussion then leads on to the comparison of the groups upbringing compared to Marjane's and made us grateful for what we have; those little fights and luxuries were nothing compared to what Marjane and many other people went

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