Persepolis Autobiography

The Visual and the Written in Persepolis
An autobiography usually has a purpose as to why it was written, either to try and fight or change something, like in Fredrick Douglass ' Narrative of an American Slave, to tell a life story, or show historical and political history through the personal life story and experiences. One way of telling that personal story is through a visual autobiography, not the conventional way, but, in my opinion a much more powerful and engaging way of telling one 's life story. It gives the reader a chance to engage in the personal life story and really sympathize and understand it. In the following paper I will discuss the visual autobiography of Marjane Satrapi- Persepolis. I will show how presenting the life story in a visual manner contributes to a dipper understanding of what the autobiographer tries to convey, and how it helps to empathize with the autobiographer. Furthermore, I will try to

The reader becomes more involved, and that is something that draws attention to the book. I believe that as a writer it is Satrapi 's goal to attract an audience, it 's her purpose to share her story with as many people as she can, and by writing her story as a graphic autobiography, she makes it much more attractive for the reader because the reader has a sort of completion to the information he receives, the illustrations give a complete vision of what 's read, and thus the reader is much more engaged in the life story. Satrapi 's autobiography Persepolis has a social and political angle. It describes the life of the author, an opinioned young girl, in revolutionary Iran of 1979. Through a graphic autobiography she is able to convey that complex political and social situation in Iran. Each experience that Satrapi has had, is illustrated, thus, the reader is sharing the experiences with her, instead of simply reading about