Sunday, June 5, 2011
Persepolis Theme
Persepolis is a graphic novel that uses real life experiences and jams them in to a narrative that helps us understand the Iranian culture. Marjane Satrapi’s experience bleeds through this book and her descriptions of what her life growing up in Iran are eye-opening and have big impacts. The theme of innocence is recycled a lot in literature these days and it is found in this book when Marji finds a new home in a new country. She tries to fit in but she doesn’t understand why people act the way they do or believe in what they believe. For me, it just didn’t work. In all honesty, this book is a bit boring to read and adding in this redundant theme of “oh, I hope I can fit in, but not change who I am” is simply annoying. What do you think about this?
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I didn't like the book very much either. I think the Iran setting could have been really interesting if the book had been written differently. I guess because the book took place over a long period of time, there wasn't much detail about each event. I sort of felt like I was just reading a list of everything that took place. It was the first graphic novel I've ever read, so maybe if I were more used to that format I would have caught on to more details. One thing the book did effectively was demonstrating how awful living in Iran is. But overall, I agree with you that the book wasn't great.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with this. I really enjoyed reading the book; nevertheless, I felt myself getting frustrated with Marji while she was telling this story to us. I've never read a graphic novel either, but I couldn't imagine reading this book without pictures because I wouldn't be able to come up with those images on my own. I think that most of Americans are close minded about Iranians and the middle east in general, so I think it was definitely useful to read.
ReplyDeletemark this is really good. I like it a lot. this book is really awesome and i am sad to see it come to an end.
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