The Complete Persepolis

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Essential Questions

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books

What steps lead one to adulthood?

What ought ethnic identity mean to us?

What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

What We Should Learn

The Horrors of Tyranny, Imperialism, and war

The temptations of sex an drugs

The blessings of free speech and personal liberties

The character and history of Iran, through the eighties

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books

What steps lead one to adulthood?

What ought ethnic Identity mean to us?

What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

The Veil

Golnaz,

Mahshid, Narine, Minna- Friends at school we don't know anything about

them yet, but they do not like the veils that they are required to wear

Mother- a strong woman who demonstrated in the

streets against the veils that they have been required to wear

Essential Questions

Characters

Plot Timeline

Islamic Revolution Takes Place in 1979

1980

All Females are Required to wear Veils

All Bilingual Schools Shut Down and Girls are

Separated from Boys

Men and Women Protest in the Streets both For and

Against the Veils

The Main Characters Mother Gets Photographed

Protesting the Veils in the Streets and Fears for Her Safety

Has to Dye Hair and Wear a Disguise Out of Fear

Main Character dreams of becoming a Prophet, but

because she is a female people laugh in her face

The Bicycle

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books

What steps lead one to adulthood?

What ought ethnic Identity mean to us?

What does it mean to be true to ourselvesEven though She believes that she will be

What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

Request to go with her parents to demonstrate in the garden against the strict laws

Still believes in her religion and still has a fighting urge to become the prophet

The Front Cover

The Grown Up Marhji Contemplating her childhood and her Family in Iran

Satrapi varies the number of cells from page to page

By Means of Simple aestethic: Black and White, not many movements. etc Author is able to allow us to fill in the moments between panels.

Terms

Emanata- things that eminate- Comic Book term

Splash Page- When a single image takes up a whole Page

Point Of View

Perspective Shifts: Both Explanitory moments, and saying this is what my father said.. and looking back on it as an adult

could she have just written the book,and then like we say, all of this is happening. Or did she like write it like this

Marhji- working through an education system were they are restricted on what they can learn. She has a personalized religion sense. And has a beautiful relationship with her grandmother.

Mother- Politcal activist who has to change her hair and disguise herself after her photo is taken protesting and published in magazines

General Notes

The Veil

The Bicycle

Characters