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Marjane’s Parents (Mother and Father) Marjane is a strong-willed, sometimes confused protagonist who we follow from childhood to burgeoning adulthood over the course of Persepolis. The confusion stems from her valiant attempts at trying to understand the embattled and restrictive world that she lives in—post-Revolution Iran—as well as her ...
Quotes. One night, after Marjane’s mother’s car breaks down in the street, she gets assaulted by two bearded fundamentalist men. They scream: “Women like [Marjane’s mother] should be pushed up against a wall and fucked and then thrown in the garbage.”. Marjane’s mother explains that by “women like me,” the men meant women who do ...
Oct 6, 2019 · Summary: An animated feature film based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical comics about her coming of age in revolutionary Iran. The film begins just before the 1979 revolution in Iran, and unfolds from the perspective of Marji, a precocious 10-year-old girl from an upper-class, Marxist intellectual family. The story follows Marji from childhood to early adolescence
Analysis. Iraq gains new ballistic missiles called “Scuds”—very powerful and expensive missiles that can reach from Iraqi land all the way to Tehran. When the sirens go on, it takes just three minutes before the missiles make landing, which does not give people much time to hide. Marjane’s father says it is useless to try to hide in the ...
Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born author and illustrator. She is best known for her graphic memoir, Persepolis, which depicts her childhood and coming of age during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Satrapi's work explores themes of identity, politics, and culture, and has received critical acclaim worldwide. In addition to Persepolis, she has ...
Summary. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is the first of two autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane "Marji" Satrapi. Writing from Paris, Satrapi recalls her childhood in Iran. The story ...
Marjane mock-demonstrates in the family garden with her friends, mimicking the many adults around her who do the same in the street. Waxing philosophical, Marjane describes to her friends that “the revolution is like a bicycle, when the wheels don’t turn, it falls.”. She suggests that often in the history of Iran the wheels haven’t been ...
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