Humans rarely change their ways; they stay in their own worlds and always interact with the same types of people. Unfortunately, this habit often creates unseen barriers that divide and alienate human beings from one another. In Luis Alberto Urrea’s book The Devil’s Highway, Urrea provides a personal perspective to immigration by telling the story of 26 illegal immigrants, known as the Wellton 26, who are abandoned as they cross the Mexico-U.S. border. Through their story, Urrea proves there are invisible borders among people that create prejudice, such as language, ethnicity, and economic status. By reading The Devil’s Highway, it is clear that these barriers must be broken down to ensure harmony within society.
Claudia Whitmer Moore English 2 21 May 2024 Comparative analysis of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In both of their debut novels, Elie Wiesel and Marjane Satrapi explore the process of maturing within an oppressive environment. Wiesel recounts his experiences as a Jew in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Marjane illustrates her childhood in Iran during and after its revolution. Difficult situations and experiences can disconnect individuals from their identity, religious and personal, even years afterward.
Bad Regime People who have lived their full lives in the United States have it pretty good. They can wear what they want, listen to whatever type of music they want, and have parties whoever they want to. This is not the case in Iran. The graphic novel, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, is set during two oppressive governments: the Shah and the Islamic regime.
Persepolis Final Essay Marjane’s Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, illustrates Marjane’s life and adventures as a rebellious Iranian women. Marjane’s experience in Austria was drastically different from what she experienced back home in Iran. This is because Marjane is under the watchful eyes of the strict Iranian government, which limits her from being completely free. The limitations of the government seem to have little effect on Marjane because of the rebellious acts she encounters, as she defies the rules, in hope to live an ordinary life. Marjane's experiences with trying to live an ordinary life, and rebelling against the government have led to small acts of rebellion within the Graphic novel.
There was a time where people lived in sadness and surrounded by the darkness of the world decades ago when war took over like a raging sea. The setting of the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi illustrates what it was like in a country that was in constant war and gives the experience she faced as an author during that time. The main character, Marjane, was not your average little girl. In the book she grew up with a loving family, but when war started it set things in motion that would affect not only her life, but other people's lives. With the constant threat of bombs, oppression of the soldiers strict regime, and religion had affected Satrapi live as a kid.
Persepolis Argumentative Essay “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.” , (Alfie Kohn). In Persepolis, Mariji’s parents create a safe and free environment within their household to allow her to express herself freely. While she is growing up, she understands the meaning of the revolution through stories, books, and personal events because they provide her with knowledge and can affect her in the future.
I 'm here to explain why I believe that my book, Persepolis has very valuable things to tell the world. I 'll start by saying that as a ten-year old girl, I 'm being forced to wear a veil to school by those that have called the cultural revolution in Iran. As a girl and the age I am I 'm always being told what to do, and if I don 't obey it there will be consequences. It 's not fair that now it 's not only my parents telling me what to do, but now there 's people, strangers telling what to do or they will be many consequences, and that has cause many protest both for and against this cultural revolution. Im afraid that not obeying what I 'm being told to do even if it 's against my religion will bring me severe consequences.
You are watching the news and suddenly a terrible tragedy comes on. Yet again, it’s word from the middle east, reporting that innocent lives have been lost or persecuted at the hands of extremists. You shake your head in confusion. How can people be capable of such terrible things? You ask yourself.
Part one of Persepolis, Story of a Childhood, mentions quite a few social issues that are relevant in modern day United States. In the chapter “The Trip” wearing the veil became obligatory in order to protect women from potential rapists because their hair was too seductive for men to handle and that their hair would distract men. While in the United States it is not obligatory women are often told that when they are wearing shorts or revealing clothing they are “asking for it”. In addition, the text as a whole made me think about how different my life is from Satrapi. The United States was at war with the middle east for a good amount of my life and yet personally I did not feel it’s effects.
Both these novels show the constant struggles that people have had to go through to survive. In Persepolis the people of Iran began to protest the Shah by demonstrating. Eventually the Shah fought back by ordering the police to burn down the Rex Cinema, where there were 400 people. “The doors had been locked from the outside a few minutes before the fire and they forbade people to rescue those locked inside, and then they attacked them.” (page 14).
Think about how you live. Most of us in America are a part of the middle class, and we can all roughly understand how we live. But think about how people who are of the upper or lower class live. Can you visualize their daily struggles and needs as well as you can see your own? Probably not.
To what extent is the literary devices shown in Persepolis increase the impact of the novel and show the culture of Iran in the 1970s? In the novel Persepolis by Majane Satrapi, she tells the story of her life living in Iran in the 1970s. In this novel she discusses the atrocities committed by both sides of the bloody Iranian revolution and how both sides truly were. In the novel, Satrapi uses several literary devices to enhance the meaning of the novel to a much greater degree than directly telling the reader. Still, these literary devices also allow the reader to peer into the very culture of Iran in the novel and how certain objects can mean certain things both from within the culture and the context of the novel.
The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is an animated ‘identity crisis’ showing how she has trouble reconciling the Eastern and Western values that she has been influenced by. By ‘identity crisis’ I mean Marjane is uncertain about who she is and where she belongs to. The Eastern values would include hierarchy, restraint, collectivism and deference, whereas the Western values would include equality, freedom of expression, individualism and self-assertion. A graphic novel can be defined as a book containing a long story told mostly in pictures but with some writing. I intend to investigate why Satrapi has chosen to use the graphic novel instead of using other styles to present Marjane attempts to reconcile the different values and find
Have you ever read a graphic novel with a variety of worldwide problems? From: racial issues, economic issues, women’s rights, political repression, social issues etcetera. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is the authors memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi tells her story through black and white comic strips of her life in Tehran from her childhood ages six to fourteen. Persepolis portrays a memorable portrait of daily life in Iran, as well the perplexing contradictions between home life and public life.
SHUBH MITTAL IBDP XII B D-BLOCK Paper 2 Essay Context: Historical, Political, Economic, Cultural, or Social can have an influence on the way literary works are written or received. Discuss with reference to two literary works that you have studied. Writer’s use of context acts as a driving force enabling and shaping literature.
