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Persepolis And Ellie Wiesel's Night: A Comparative Analysis

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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Ellie Wiesel's Night explore the challenges and struggles of the author's personal journey. Both explore the key concept of identity in relation to their loss of faith and their religious beliefs in response to their long journey throughout these novels. Identity is a complex concept that not many people may notice at first, but plays a large part in society and is shaped by life and personal experiences. The graphic novel Persepolis takes place during and after the Iranian revolution in Iran, which impacted the life of Satrapi. At the beginning of the Iranian revolution, Marjane overheard a conversation between her parents regarding the burning down of a theater named Rex Cinema. The author wanted to join her …show more content…

Although the events impacted her in a negative way, Marajne got used to it after two years of constant war. After 2 years, she was recollecting the previous events that led up to the war, and at the same time, she was heading to the basement. She then smoked a cigarette and said, "With this cigarette, I kissed a childhood goodbye." She smoked a cigarette and thought that would change her identity from her young self to a mature adult. Additionally, in the article "Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis." by Elahi Babak, the author talks about the different concepts of identity and how Marjane took an irrevocable step toward adulthood and independence from her young self the day she smoked a cigarette, which changed her identity from her former self. She was changing her identity because she knew she needed change if she wanted to take part in the revolutionary war. Like Wise in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, he goes through an act of genocide against his kind, and his life would never be the same since the Holocaust began. When the survivors and wiesel survived the Holocaust, everyone was celebrating Christmas and the new year; they were thanking God for allowing them to survive the …show more content…

He is no longer able to lament. He was the accuser, God the accused.Wiesel, a lot like Satrapi, struggles to keep believing in God, which made him suffer so much during the Holocaust. This occurred many times when the Holocaust took place. After the traumatic event, Wiesel was free, yet alone. His dad was dead, and God wasn't there for him. He felt like he was alone. At the hospital, he looked at himself in the mirror, and from the depths of the mirror a corpse was contemplating him. The look in his eyes as he gazed at him has never left Wiesel. This showed that his identity had changed so much that he was shocked at the sight of himself in the mirror. It was like he saw someone else, a different person, a different him. This reflects his new identity. Read the article "The Holocaust in the Stories of Elie Wiesel." by Manuela Costantino, she talks about the horrors of the Holocaust and how it killed a person's relationship with God and identity.” Anyone can change after experiencing traumatic events, and that's exactly what happened to Wiesel. When he was at the camp, he felt the absence of God, thus making him lose his faith in him and allowing him to change his ways mentally with his

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