Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Essay

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Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born french graphic novelist author. She is known for writing one of her famous novels, “Persepolis” in 2000. Persepolis is a novel that talks about Marjane’s childhood in Iran til she’s a young adult during & after the Islamic Revolution. The drawings in Persepolis can add an array of meaning in a way of humor. The drawings appeal to a large demographic, and allow many more readers to relate and like the story. These drawings help the flow of the story and show another side of the author’s feelings. This novel is an importance of Islamic Revolution how Marjane gets through her life and learning about it step by step by her parents and her rebellion. Humor is used throughout the novel to make the readers interested in the book …show more content…

She said, “She should start learning to defend her rights as a woman right now!” (76). Satrapi uses imagery on (117) by smoking a cigarette she had stolen from her uncle a couple weeks before and after she smoked it she had said it tasted awful but she had felt grown up after she did it. In the pictures she even showed herself that she didn’t really like it and wasn’t use to it because she said,”With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye.” Another example would be on (150) Marjane could smell (imagery) the scent of flowers coming from her grandma’s bosom because of the flowers she picked out so she could smell nice. On that same picture Marjane saw that when her grandma undressed herself she saw the flowers that would fall from her bra that she had picked out. The images allow the reader to gain new perspective. As a person that is going to try a new book and skim through some novels once they get to Persepolis they’re going to see that they will be able to make a visual understanding of the Islamic Revolution and what goes on in Marjane’s life because she has clear drawings that make it easy to understand to what the reader is trying to picture in their mind. On

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