Reflective Statement On Persepolis

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Reflective Statement During the oral discussion, the students discussed intepretators and different ideas for their different views on the graphic novel Persepolis. There were an ample amount of tangent within the conversation per topic. Even with the tangents, the main topics that were discussed and reviewed were the students opinion on Persepolis, how others might have different interpretations of the book, as well as the effects the book had by being written in a different language. The interactive oral changes my perception and interpretation on the novel by a nonsignificant amount the points made did the interpretation just by a hint. Most conveyed the same idea to the class on the interpretation, they just said that the book would be …show more content…

Prime examples of this, would be high tension scenes. Inside of an average novel, the tension is based on the language of the writer, making the scene simple will not do justice on the scene. This creates a sort of big skill gap where only really skilled warriors or intelligent readers can take advantage of their imagination. Graphic novels don’t have this problem because they can create images of the tension either using drastic lighting on the characters as they speak, eerie text, varied facial expressions (especially those that look more realistic). Something to be an example of this would be within page 52 of the original Persepolis novel, there is a picture created about Ahdami a character in prison, who was dismembered. Unlike in a novel there isn’t many ways to describe that without misbalancing the language, without making the novel too childlike and trying too hard to sound menacing that they would achieve a different effect which would be more comedically to people of these days. There is more than just with the people for visual clarity in this novel, with visual clarity it replaces imagery in a graphic novel, some authors have the ability to create a great image that engages all 5 senses within their novel, but most do not, most focus on a singular sense, which a graphic novel can recreate more lucidly than the normal novel. A repetitive introduction to this type of multisense is shown in Page 112 especially the 5th panel, where the man splats onto the ground, in an average novel the language created would not do as much justice to the scene as the graphic novel does. Visual clarity is a powerful tool with a graphic novel, it’s how most these days can engage in novels, and changing from a graphic novel to an