Identify and analyze a panel that...Provides humor, shows a characters conflict, underscores the atrocities of a brutal regime.... Humor: On page 50, a character, Mohsen, is introduced as being "released" from a prison. His family thought he was dead. Mohsen introduces humor by humorously injecting "Me dead? What a joke! In prison they called me the man with seven lives." This lightens the situation by turning the conversation about death and torture to a lighthearted one that people can joke about and not feel as on edge.
Characters Conflict: An example of a characters conflict can be found on page 53. Marjane, as herself shows the conflict she must go through as she faces her own inner demons. When looking back at a mirror, Marjane has a wicked, sadistic smile spread across her face as well as devil horns. Later she realizes who she really is,cries, and continues later goes to cry in her mothers lap and resides with the comfort of her god.
Brutal Regime: On page 51, most of the page personifies the brutalities that the totalitarian regime can induce on its people. Specifically Revolutionary leaders, like Ahmadi Ahmadi is shown getting whipped, burnt by a hot iron, and pissed on by a guerilla torturer, all because he was a revolutionary leader to try and protest an evil regime. This shows how brutal the regime can get
How Does The Author Indicate a change in one of the characters... The author indicates a change in Marjane Satrapi (herself) when she converts from a sadistic woman who wants to punish the evil do-ers to suddenly a scared little girl who wants to reside in the comfort of god. When she looks at herself in the mirror she sees a powerful young women who will punish all those who have done wrong like the Iraqis and tells her friends how she plans to hurt, torture, and punish them, but later resides back into being a small helpless girl who lacks the power to have such power or jurisdiction over who is to be punished and who isn't...(She wishes to punish the boy of a leader simply because his father is an evil do-er and believes any one who is affiliated with such tyrants ought to be punished harshly, even if they themselves haven't done anything. Which technique seems the most successful in revealing the turmoil of the changes in the society. The technique that seems most successful in showing turmoil or changes in the society would be the use of using graphics to show how Ahmadi was tortured in the chapter. One of the people in the story, a friend of Marjane's family, Siamak Jari recounts the fact that Ahmadi couldn't use his cyanide in time to kill himself as the torture he went through, in his opinion was worse than death. This technique is used effectively as the book goes from small scale rebellions with little kids among the adults and shifting to showing the impact of how resistance to the leader can result in punishments worse than death.
What similarities and differences can you identify between the politics/culture of the novel and those in our country From the very beginning of the graphic novel, the reader is immediately presented with examples of how the Iranian government in 1980 was different from any other oppressive government as the US had seen. On Page 3, Marjane shows how girls were separated from the boys and forced to wear Veils/Hijabs. This is different from American Society where schools are not segregated by sexes and American dress codes are generally much more liberal...In total the culture of many middle eastern countries such as Iran and Iraq are all very male dominated, unlike western countries where women are increasingly seen as much more equal to men.
In addition to American Culture, Iranian Culture can also be compared heavily with Indian culture. In traditional Iranian and Indian culture, they all follow the cult of domesticity where the female usually stays home and acts a house wife sheltered from the public eye. In Persepolis, Marjane's mother is actually scared to be a publick known revolutionary as many see it as her job to not make a name for herself. In Indian culture alike women are supposed to stay home, clean, cook, take after the children while the male goes outside the home and bring in money for the family. Comparatively, some Middle Eastern countries like Iran and Iraq and some Asian countries like India specifically are very similar.
Citations: In order of appearance Satrapi, Marjane. “The Heroes.” Persepolis, Pantheon , pp. 50. Satrapi, Marjane. “The Heroel.” Persepolis, Pantheon , pp. 53. Satrapi, Marjane. “The Heroes.” Persepolis, Pantheon , pp. 51. Satrapi, Marjane. “The Veil.” Persepolis, Pantheon , pp. 3.