Persepolis is a unique story partly because it is told in the form of a graphic novel. There are many elements of it that are very similar to a regular novel, so it remains to be asked why Marjane Satrapi chose this particular medium to tell her story. When we think of graphic novels, we think of comic books and something that is perhaps a bit more frivolous than the average novel. Even though there have been many critically acclaimed graphic novels that tell intricate well-crafted stories, writing
The Complete Persepolis is a coming of age autobiography, by Iranian born French author Marjane Satrapi. The novel is a mirror of Satrapi’s childhood during the Islamic revolution, which counters between private and public life. Marjane spent her adolescent years in Austria, a western country free from religious rule. Prior to being sent to Austria, her childhood in Iran made it difficult to express herself as any type of western culture was demonized. However this transformation caused Satrapi to
Persepolis is a graphic novel, written by Marjane Satrapi, giving sneak peeks into the lives of a young girl in the middle of the Islamic Revolution. Situated during the overthrown of the Shah’s regime, and the war with Iraq, Marjane lets the reader experience how the people of Iran, the nationalists, the secularists and even the Muslims, depreciate, excluded and silenced the modernists in Iran during the great Revolution. Written through the eyes of a young ten year old girl, Satrapi helped the
In the book, Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane talks about her actual life stories, of events that happened to her family during the Iranian Revolution. At a young age, Marjane became aware of the different social classes and their struggles. Marjane’s class awareness informs her ideologies, values, and actions as a child. Growing up, Marjane realized that she was a part of the upper class but she never actually says that she is aware of this; one can assume she is aware of social classes