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Imperialism In Persepolis

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Marjane and her father were late to pick up Marjane’s mother, but this would turn out to be her biggest mistake. As the two pulled up to pick up her mother, then the child's mother ran out crying. She had been assaulted by men of the revolution, they had told her horrid things and hurt her. Marjane’s mother would never fully recover, but Marjane never fully understood why this event was such a big deal, but thanks to Marjane’s perspective of her surroundings and her childish tendencies are demonstrated through imperialism, social classes, and gender roles. The image shown demonstrates Imperialism by one person or a country having power over the smaller country or colonies. Furthermore, it shows the control the one main power has over a certain …show more content…

The picture depicts a story on social classes. As you can see clearly, the image shows how the social classes work by showing two brick walls. On the “poor” side, it shows that the pockets of the people are empty and that they can’t even afford a clean, new wall. Around “50.1 percent” of the world are considered to be lower class (Geewax, national public radio, Inc). The wall even seems to be almost a prison wall with the barbed wire top. The second class would be considered “middle class” these people seem to have money but are still with the prison wall but are also next to a new, pristine wall. The middle class group also shows how they have money over the lower class. However, the “wealthy class” seems to have the most money the image seems to show the wealthy people looking over the wall and down on the other social classes because that class is sitting on a pile of money. In the graphic novel Persepolis this topic is also observed. The novel talks about how Marjane’s maid Mehri is in a lower class. Therefore, cannot love their neighbor but has to tell the truth to him about her social class (Satrapi, 36-37). Marjane however, with her foolish young age and perspective did not see anything wrong with this. She even argued with her father in the matter (Satrapi,

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