Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Essay

“I raise up my voice- not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back” -Malala Yousafazi Malala Yousafazi is a courageous you girl, who lived in an area controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban is against females attending school and receiving and education, yet Yousafazi still attended school, while advocating her right to education and speaking out about the Taliban. Because of her advocation of girls right to education, Malala was shot, yet she still continues to stand up for the right of education for girls. (explian Malala’s story) Similar to Malala Yousafazi Emily Bronte, throughout her novel Wuthering Heights, gives a voice to women who were considered second class citizens

This sentence shows how much war is affecting their own innocence by make children grow up faster, in a different way because they were very affected by the war. This problem is also represented in the end of the book when Marji had to leave the country and go to Vienna, because she had to become independent in a wrong moment as she can live

“As if!” there are still stereotypes of women. Society has getting better with trying not to stereotype women, but after studying the movie Clueless, the stereotypes that were shown in the movie still exist today. For many years women have been told that they have to fit a certain image for our society’s needs. From a woman’s perspective, there are many expectations that are held and are impossible to be met. From a young age, girls everywhere are being told that what they’re doing is never good enough.

Marjane Satrapi is a 10-year-old girl living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane, her parents and the rest of the country go through a dramatic change as the government and the people around them start to alter their everyday lives. In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis, the author explores Marjane’s development from an innocent young girl to a rebellious teenager, in order to illustrate Marjane’s change as an effect of the negative religious changes during the revolution. As a 10-year-old girl, Marjane hadn 't quite understood what was going around her enough to form any type of opinion. Even though everything around was changing rapidly she still had a very innocent mind and had very bigs dreams.

Marjane tells her story through her novel, Persepolis, and it helps show how things in the world can drastically change someone’s perspective. The imperialism that took place in Marjane’s country, the religion that Marjane strongly believed in, and Marjane’s loss of innocence while she was very young, all affected her perspective throughout the graphic novel, Persepolis. As a demonstration

The idea of rebellion was treated differently by each author, although they were similar each author had a deferent point of view on rebelling. In Reading Lolita in Tehran and Cairo the main characters rebelling was extremely dangerous, but it was represented as an act of bravery. And in Persepolis 2 the women rebelled with small details against the law to show society what little freedom they have. The first two stories that are mentioned have only an act of bravery in common, but the way they rebelled was done in completely different ways to show just how many different types of struggles women in those countries go through. But as the readers go on in the stories the differences in the way each author perceives rebellion becomes more clear.

At age 10 the Taliban took control of Swat valley banning things like music televisions and a year later females attending school. Disobeyment to their rules included harsh punishments including public executions. Even before the closing of the school, multiple students ceased to show up because of the dangers of the Taliban. One of Ziauddin’s students attended class late because her parents were no longer allowing her to attend school a week before the ban was enforced because it was too dangerous but she disobeyed them and walked to school after the left her

Women have overcome this stereotype by working more hours and therefore being able to receive promotions. Today many new gender stereotypes are taught by parents and grandparents to children. Video games are new and have a masculine stereotype. This stereotype comes from parents telling their daughters that they should not play video games since its not for their gender. Culture plays an important role in shaping gender stereotypes.

She sees something on TV which is part of the false propaganda of the Islamic Republic, and as a child she believes what she sees on TV. In the autobiography there are many conversations about the politics in Iran, and Marji, as a child, tries to understand the situation, and at one point she understands that she doesn't know enough and starts to read many books in order to have a better understanding. In the illustrations in that scene there is a sense of humor, Marji's expression when she understands that she was mistaken to believe what they say in the media. The facial expressions in the autobiography are very important to the understanding of the story, each expression teaches the reader about the actual emotional state the character is in. In the chapter called "The Passport", Marji's uncle was ill and had to undergo an operation that could only be done outside of Iran, unfortunately he didn't receive his visa to leave the country, and after he passed away his visa arrived.

Gillian Anderson’s performance can be considered particularly original because she gives Miss Havisham a child-like aspect, with a little girl’s voice. This is perhaps at first unlike what one would imagine, but quickly becomes believable, specially because she was left by Compeyson at a quite young age and therefore she maintained her childish personality, also seen in her will to punish people so she is not the only person suffering. This new feature also helps the spectator pity Miss

Just as the kitten was forced away form its mother too soon, so too was Yolanda forced to leave her homeland and culture and too young of an age. Yolanda was too young to make such a drastic move which lead to her having difficulties later in life. Her cultural guidelines of how to act were no longer there and eventually when she got a little older she was free to become whoever she wanted. Even she was free to be whoever she chose they would never truly assimilate with the average American. For instance when Yolanda was in boarding school she met a boy name Rudy Elmhurst who she started seeing for quite a while.

a.) When students from a race who is being oppressed, is able to talk, write, and learn about their culture, they can look at society in different eyes. Being taken from an education of ten plus years of studying only American history, and then placed into courses with a Chicano point of view can change a vast majority of people’s minds. b.) One of the girls in the film talks about how she didn’t even go to school on a regular basis, because she didn’t like it.

"She [Jolly] gets rewards for going regular... her attendance has to stay regular or she gets penalties" (104). If LaVaughn wouldn 't have forcibly made Jolly go to school she would be in a much worse place than she was. No fixed income and 2 small children don 't exactly make for a stable financial situation. And then there is the fact that even though the Mom 's Up Program pays LaVaughn for an hour of babysitting a day so Jolly can do her homework, LaVaughn had babysat for Jolly for at least 19 hours and had never gotten paid. So let 's assume that Jolly gets paid what maybe $6-7 dollars an hour?

Then Atticus said "Try fighting with your head for a change." (lee 101) This example shows that Atticus doesn 't want Scout to get into anymore fights at school; instead he wants her to think about what she is doing first. Whenever Cecil Jacobs called Atticus a name Scout got mad and she was going to beat him up , but she remembered what Atticus said and she calmed down and walked away. More and more she is put to the test every day but she

Some of the best stories get hidden behind the nonsense of celebrity. An example of this would be the story of Malala Yousafzai, an eighteen-year-old girl in Pakistan who has shot in the head by the Taliban after defying them and demanding that girls should receive an education. Rather than emphasizing these kinds of stories and creating positive change in our world, the media would rather have you “Keep Up with the