2007 Cannes Film Festival Essays

Persepolis is a movie about a girl named Marjane living in Iran during the revolution and her struggles through that time. The movie starts with the girl being young and ends with the girl in her mid-20’s. it shows Marjane issues she faced every day, her relationship with her family and guys, her ideology of communism, and her love hate relationship with Iran. The Iran revolution was a fight against the Shah the current leader of Iran during 1979. The people didn’t like that he was Westernizing

There are a variety of different ways to tell stories and get a point across to the reader. Persepolis is written as a graphic novel. A few reasons why it's more effective to convey Marjane's story by writing it as a graphic novel is because it helps the reader visualize what they’re reading as well as staying interested. It also helps the see the character’s feelings by looking at the facial expression. The book tells a story about the war against Iran and Iraq and the people's struggles living

Changing oneself to fit societal expectations is a shift many teenagers have to stop themselves from making. In the semi-auto biographical graphic novel Persepolis, the author Marjane Satrapi uses symbolism and conflict to represent the central idea that sacrificing one’s identity to appease the people around them is not always a personally beneficial change. Throughout the story the main character Marji faces many instances where she feels she needs to adhere to either peers or society’s wants and

The Women’s Room and The Radiant Way are 2 novels that reflect certain ideologies of the time they are written. The Women’s Room is written by American author Marilyn French. The main protagonist of the novel is a woman named Mira who represents her generation and all the young women in her society in the 1950s and 1960s. The novel portrays the unhappy, oppressive and unsatisfying relationship between men and women. The Radiant Way is a novel that is written by British novelist Margaret Drabble.

Love has a large, but misinterpreted influence on the events of Persepolis. All of Marjane’s love-based relationships are actually rooted in her own desires. One such relationship is her relationship with God, which is based in her own personality rather than religious belief. Similarly, her relationship with her parents is structured around her inability to live without them in her life. The role of love in Persepolis is to motivate Marjane to act based on selfish motives because her love is actually

When I read this true life story of about this little girl Margi. This book has helped me to see all the life struggles, good times, that Marji faced between the ages of nine to thirteen. The Islamic Revolution had such a crazy effect in the Middle East, especially in the county of Iran where Marji and her family live. And throughout this story she just tells this crazy story about what she goes through on this journey. With all the stuff that she go’s through it requires extreme strength, confidence

The graphic novel Persepolis was written by Marjane Satrapi based on her childhood memories during the Islamic Revolution. She showed how the Revolution changed the lives of many people causing them to act, behave, and change to fit the situation they were presented in. The country had separated in two parts, people who were for the veil and people who were against it. Before the Islamic Revolution Satrapi was an ordinary and happy kid, she states “In 1979, we were in a French non-religious school

Life during wartime. Did you know that million of people were hurt during Islamic Revolution but still they fight for their rights? Persepolis book is about Marjane Satrapi. She is the author and her book is about her childhood and when she grow up during and after the ISlamic Revolution. In persepolis Marjane Satrapi show us that in our life we have to fight for the right thing even if there is inequality between men and women. Specially we have to overcome our fears. One lesson that Persepolis

Why can't everyone just be equal? The book Persepolis takes place in Iran in 1979 which was during the Islamic Revolution, it guides us through the viewpoint of a child growing up in a war zone and how her viewpoints change through her life. The Islamic Revolution was a violent overthrow of the government. Many Islamist Iranians and leftists disliked the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, it shows the differences in life between different social classes and widens Marji's

From the beginning of the film, it was clear that Eva Perón was a powerful woman. She had a rough upbringing and the way she lived her life represented it. As a child born out of wedlock, she was considered illegitimate and was constantly questioned about the rights she had to do things. The scene where anti-Peronists denounced Eva by calling her a “bitch”, “whore”, and how she was just a “lowly actress” is a clear representation of this. She brought this vengeance with her in her motive to become

In the graphic novel Persepolis, the author’s use of dichotomies such as Westernization v. Traditionalism, Right v. Wrong, and Islamic v. Secularism all develop the theme of division in Iran surrounding the Islamic Revolution and the time period that follows, all the way to today.  Secularism v. Religion is important to the theme and development of Persepolis and of Iran because the division is caused through the Islamic revolution and the ongoing protests against the hijab, the rights of women

Class conflict is an underlying tension in Persepolis. The 1979 Iranian Revolution is characterized by Satrapi as largely a Marxist revolution undertaken by the urban cultural elites on behalf of the impoverished people of Iran's countryside. Yet, in the chapter “Letter”, injustice can clearly be between different social classes can be seen through the visual and textual elements included by Satrapi when the maid, Mehri, and her life are described. Though Marji’s parents and all the other protestors

(2003) addresses Satrapi’s (2003) childhood struggle of identifying with a traditional religious way of life and her modern parents’ way of living. Tarlo (2007) explains that some of the modern Iranian women transformed to simplistic choices of the fundamentalist woman that discouraged Satrapi (2003) from relating to their identity. Tarlo (2007) believes that Satrapi (2004) portrayed the fundamentalist that stood with the leader Ruhollah Khomeyni in symbols that represents their loss of self-identity

The graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi is loosely based on her childhood during the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Iran/Iraq war. Marjane and her family are against the Revolution and the new laws of how women must cover themselves and how all Western products are banned. Marjane struggles with the troubles in her country, especially since she is not afraid to speak her mind. Even though the Regime bans the citizens from partying and drinking alcohol, Marjane’s family and their friends

The film of Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” is that of human nature and society. The exposition begins with a woman reflecting about her past as she sits in the airplane seating area smoking a cigarette, this is a place that the story begins and ends at, which I like most. While she talks about her childhood and growing up and finding out about her grandpa. The rising action is happening the war has started the bell of bloodshed as rung and they will keep fighting for 8 years what makes me mad is

The world’s perception of the Middle East has always been different, but during the time period Marjane Satrapi wrote Persepolis, western people believed the Middle East to be a place full of terrorists. Iran was seen as a country that was full of evil and Marjane Satrapi wanted to stop this belief in the Western area. Marjane Satrapi wants people to realize that Iranians at the time were being oppressed by the government and were not evil but victims. Satrapi utilizes symbols throughout the graphic

In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane is impacted by Reza Shah stepping down from power, which causes her to be confused and unsure of how to behave in her changed environment. After Reza Shah steps down from power, schools in Iran close. When they reopen and Marjane returns to school, her class is ordered to tear out all the pictures of the Shah from their books. Satrapi is surprised by this, and talks to a classmate about how this same teacher had told them the Shah was chosen by God

The autobiographical memoir, Persepolis, published in the early 2000’s by Marjane Satrapi depicts the struggle of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Similarly, the semi-autobiographical novel, The Things They Carried, published in 1995 by Tim O’brien focuses on O’brien’s distressing experiences of getting drafted into the Vietnam War. Moreover, both O’Brien’s and Satrapi’s literature portray the struggle to be understood through the themes of religion and mental health. In Persepolis

Davis Coziahr Mrs. Sondag IB Language Arts 11 May 8, 2023 How Heroes and Nationalism Shape Pride in Persepolis The graphic novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is a memoir about her growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. The reader follows the younger Satrapi as she battles with finding how she feels under a new government in Iran. From books telling her one thing and her parents telling her the opposite, to seeing her friend under a fallen building, Satrapi searches to find her identity

In the novel Persepolis, many themes are highlighted by Satrapi, such as the importance of her identity throughout the whole novel. Marjane frequently explores her national, religious, gender, and political identity as she navigates through many conflicts. This ultimately requires Marjane to look deeper into her country, religion, and political ideology to encounter her own identity truly. For Instance, Marjane, in panel 1, highlights her dependence on religion to deal with overwhelming situations