Q: Why do you think this genre is so popular? Why did Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story? What does the visual...????
I think this genre is very popular because now a days more people especially teens are reading this kind of genres, such as manges. I think the sense of humor in this kind of genre is very important because it does not get boring to read it at all. I think teens find it more interesting for the fact that it is not only words but also pictures and because like I said it has some very funny pictures that sometimes writing cannot get to, only a picture can show, like people say pictures are worth a million words...I think Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story because it is easier to show all or most of the feelings to the reader, both the picture and the words will help her tell a bigger story or a more I guess detailed story and both the picture and the story really depend on each other. A visual aspect adds many things that a cinventual memoir lacks, like a better picture of what is in a way really happening in the story. In many ways the pictures gives more things than the story itself, and the reader can really see what the author or the writer wants them to imagine. I think the pictures would also have a big impact on showing how for example the veils look like and how they have to wear it and so in a way I think this has a bigger impact on the reader because they see it not only imagine it...Sadly I have not read any of the books maintained but I have read some mange books and I can say in many ways they are different and in many ways they are the same, for example they both have humor but Persepolis is a memoir of course and manges for the most part of it is a fiction book. But still both have the five elements of a story...Basically Persepolis has like I said the five aliments of a story similar to a comic book and humor like some comic books have. I would not call this a comic book because it is most importantly is not a made up story, it is a memoir and so it should have its own category, like half comic book and half of an autobiography, of course a graphic novel..I would place this book in the autobiography section because it is an autobiography and it was meant be an autobiography not a comic book that you just read for fun..this is a "comic book" that has a point and a reason ( Message), like the author pointed out in the introduction...
Q: How did the revolution exert power and influence over so any people, including many educated middle class people like Satrapi's parents? Why did so may people leave after the revolution? Why do you think Marji's parents send her off to Austria while they stayed in Tehran? Why don't they leave/escape as well?
The revolution exerted power and influenced over so many people because the government was basically in charge and so what the government said people have to do it or else they will get killed, like many people in the novel that were killed by the government, for example the theater and the many massacres that were done. This included the educated and the middle class people like Satrapi's family because they basically lived under the government rules and they had to do what they were told to...and so they did what they had to do to survive those times. Also there were people that were brain washed and did what other people told them to do. This divided between the poor and the rich and in many ways it turned the tables around and the people that were less powerful before are more powerful, like in the book, when Marji's grandmother has to face her old worker that use to clean her windows and now he is working for the government. So many people left after the revolution because there was basically less freedom , especially for women. They could not let their hair show and had to wear their veils all the time. There were many massacres and the country was being attacked by Afghanistan..It was not a save place to live in, the rules were very streaked. I think Marji's parents sanded her off to Austria because they wanted the best for her. It was getting very difficult for Marji to get a good education in her country because of the many things that were happening. The parents basically wanted for Marji to have a better future. Like many families, today live their countries for a better life and a better future for their children. The parents don't leave because they want to believe their country will get better and things will get better. That is their home and where they grew up in and they do not want to give it up..it is the place they were born...
Q: What is Satrapi suggesting about the relationship between past and present, and between national and personal history? What role does her family history, and the stories of her relatives, say in shaping Marji?
I think Satrapi is suggesting that the past affects the present directly and the present is based of off the past. For example today Iran has not fully in many ways fixed its problems with Iraq and they still have problems and nobody really knows when it will stop or how..maybe the history between the two countries is too deep that the problem will never go away. So now because of the past issues that existed the present, today the relationship is not doing so well...and well there are many wars going on in this world right now...So of course there are the wars and that is what it seems people think is the way to solve a problem, while the rich people sleep in their gold beds there are soldiers that are risking there life's in war...and whose idea was it to go to war...(sorry I kind of went of topic..), so the past histories especially war history can really affect the present and the future relationships between countries. I think she is also suggesting that national history can sometimes get into personal history. For example if a person in a family has served the army or any other services they are part in many ways of the national history. Also like we see in the novel the Vail and how that started and the Islamic revolution. I guess for part of the national and personal history is sometimes religion as well, such as in the novel. Her family history basically is the roots of where she comes from and part of what shapes Marji, and the stories of her relatives shapes her in a way to be what she wants in her life and her purpose of living and fighting for what she believes is right and for her countries freedom...
I think this genre is very popular because now a days more people especially teens are reading this kind of genres, such as manges. I think the sense of humor in this kind of genre is very important because it does not get boring to read it at all. I think teens find it more interesting for the fact that it is not only words but also pictures and because like I said it has some very funny pictures that sometimes writing cannot get to, only a picture can show, like people say pictures are worth a million words...I think Satrapi chose this format in which to tell her story because it is easier to show all or most of the feelings to the reader, both the picture and the words will help her tell a bigger story or a more I guess detailed story and both the picture and the story really depend on each other. A visual aspect adds many things that a cinventual memoir lacks, like a better picture of what is in a way really happening in the story. In many ways the pictures gives more things than the story itself, and the reader can really see what the author or the writer wants them to imagine. I think the pictures would also have a big impact on showing how for example the veils look like and how they have to wear it and so in a way I think this has a bigger impact on the reader because they see it not only imagine it...Sadly I have not read any of the books maintained but I have read some mange books and I can say in many ways they are different and in many ways they are the same, for example they both have humor but Persepolis is a memoir of course and manges for the most part of it is a fiction book. But still both have the five elements of a story...Basically Persepolis has like I said the five aliments of a story similar to a comic book and humor like some comic books have. I would not call this a comic book because it is most importantly is not a made up story, it is a memoir and so it should have its own category, like half comic book and half of an autobiography, of course a graphic novel..I would place this book in the autobiography section because it is an autobiography and it was meant be an autobiography not a comic book that you just read for fun..this is a "comic book" that has a point and a reason ( Message), like the author pointed out in the introduction...
Q: How did the revolution exert power and influence over so any people, including many educated middle class people like Satrapi's parents? Why did so may people leave after the revolution? Why do you think Marji's parents send her off to Austria while they stayed in Tehran? Why don't they leave/escape as well?
The revolution exerted power and influenced over so many people because the government was basically in charge and so what the government said people have to do it or else they will get killed, like many people in the novel that were killed by the government, for example the theater and the many massacres that were done. This included the educated and the middle class people like Satrapi's family because they basically lived under the government rules and they had to do what they were told to...and so they did what they had to do to survive those times. Also there were people that were brain washed and did what other people told them to do. This divided between the poor and the rich and in many ways it turned the tables around and the people that were less powerful before are more powerful, like in the book, when Marji's grandmother has to face her old worker that use to clean her windows and now he is working for the government. So many people left after the revolution because there was basically less freedom , especially for women. They could not let their hair show and had to wear their veils all the time. There were many massacres and the country was being attacked by Afghanistan..It was not a save place to live in, the rules were very streaked. I think Marji's parents sanded her off to Austria because they wanted the best for her. It was getting very difficult for Marji to get a good education in her country because of the many things that were happening. The parents basically wanted for Marji to have a better future. Like many families, today live their countries for a better life and a better future for their children. The parents don't leave because they want to believe their country will get better and things will get better. That is their home and where they grew up in and they do not want to give it up..it is the place they were born...
Q: What is Satrapi suggesting about the relationship between past and present, and between national and personal history? What role does her family history, and the stories of her relatives, say in shaping Marji?
I think Satrapi is suggesting that the past affects the present directly and the present is based of off the past. For example today Iran has not fully in many ways fixed its problems with Iraq and they still have problems and nobody really knows when it will stop or how..maybe the history between the two countries is too deep that the problem will never go away. So now because of the past issues that existed the present, today the relationship is not doing so well...and well there are many wars going on in this world right now...So of course there are the wars and that is what it seems people think is the way to solve a problem, while the rich people sleep in their gold beds there are soldiers that are risking there life's in war...and whose idea was it to go to war...(sorry I kind of went of topic..), so the past histories especially war history can really affect the present and the future relationships between countries. I think she is also suggesting that national history can sometimes get into personal history. For example if a person in a family has served the army or any other services they are part in many ways of the national history. Also like we see in the novel the Vail and how that started and the Islamic revolution. I guess for part of the national and personal history is sometimes religion as well, such as in the novel. Her family history basically is the roots of where she comes from and part of what shapes Marji, and the stories of her relatives shapes her in a way to be what she wants in her life and her purpose of living and fighting for what she believes is right and for her countries freedom...
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