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1. Draw (not literally) a character profile of Marjane Satrapi's protagonist. Include page numbers. At the same time make a list of references she makes which need further inquiry, again, include page numbers.
2. Freewrite from Indivisible: Meena Alexander (143-147); Dilruba (157-163); Pramila Venkateswaran (164-169); Reena Narayan (170-175). Choose one writer.
3. Divorce Iranian Style. Dir. Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini
4.Homework--Bring in two scholarly article references that explicate or support the narrative.
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5. Read up to "The Croissant" in Persepolis.
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Daniel Lu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Character Profile of Marji:
10 years old
innocent at the beginning (16)
wants to participate in protesting, naïve (16)
wanted to be a prophet (6)
begins to resist the anti capitalism movement (16)
parents are very outspoken against the government (5)
worries about problems like why social classes are so concrete (6, 37)
talks to God many times (8)
changes her mind to being a doctor/lawyer (9)
really wanted a family member who could be called a hero (52, 54)
changes mind after her uncle was killed (70)
proud of her parents and those who are protesting against the oppressive government (5)
high aspirations (6)
idealistic (17, 82)
very religious (8,18)
faith in God shaken (70)
wants to become a chemist (73)
wants to fight the war, patriotic (79)
enjoys American culture (105)
Gerardo Guzman
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
MARJANE CHARACTER PROFILE
-Marjane is a 10-year old girl living in Tehran, Iran at the time of a revolution and subsequent war. The revolution is to overthrow the shah’s regime while the war is brought on by an Iraqi invasion.
-Since she is young, she is ignorant of many issues. Her school spews much propaganda which Marjane believes. From one day to the next the school goes from supporting to hating the shah leaving Marjane confused (Satrapi 44). Early in the book she wants to be a prophet as she has conversations with Goad and even believes the shah was chosen by God.
-She later learns of her grandfather and uncle’s participation in the revolution and becomes inspired. Along with her parents’ influence she becomes quite outspoken and is occasionally scolded for her outbursts.
CLARIFICATIONS
-What is Persepolis? From my architectural history courses I believe it was the ancient Persian capital, but I am not sure.
-What were the roles of Britain, other Western countries, and the USSR in the Middle East during the mid-20th century?
-What were the reasons for Iraq invading Iran? (Probably natural resources-oil)
-What Iranian provinces have since become independent such as Azerbaijan?
-What happened during the occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran?
-Who was in charge following the shah’s upheaval?
Stephanie Chan, Joanna Louie, Daniela Myovich
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Character Profile: Marjane Satrapi
The Veil
-Protagonist: Marjane; p. 3
-10 years old in 1980; p.3
-Religious, “I was born with religion” (Satrapi 6)
-Wants to be a prophet
-She is wealthy – family has a nice car and maid
-Educated, curious, radical (her and family)
-She has a supportive family
-Marjane description: tomboy, short hair (a little longer than her chin)
The Letter
-First time she hears about social classes. Her father says, “because in this country you must stay within your own social class”, and she argues with him, “Is it her fault she was born where she was born??” (Satrapi 37)
Moscow
-Meets Uncle Anoosh, learns more about family history, just as her grandma wants her to.
The F-14s
-As a student, she is very opinionated about the war especially, p. 86
-We begin to see she is more mature then kids her own age.
The Key
-“Every Situation offered an opportunity for laughs: like when we had to knit winter hoods for the soldiers” (Satrapi 96) – Does not take the revelation seriously
The Cigarette
-She starts to smoke, “With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown up” (Satrapi 117)
Historical References
-The Islamic Revolution; p. 3
-Revolutionaries
1. F. Rezal
2. Dr. Fatemi
3. H. Ashraf
-The Shah
-Communism
-Fidel Castro; p. 12
-Anwar Al-Sadat; p. 43
Works Cited
Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. Paris, France: L'Association. 2003. Print.
B.P
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
11 July 2011
Marji Character Profile
Bold – her eagerness to protest against the regime despite government threats and gunfire at a young age of ten displays her boldness and fearlessness.
Smart – her eagerness to learn about the many perspectives on the war she is currently in the middle of, the theories of communism, Marxism, and the roles of a prophet shows her trait as a thinker. “I knew everything about the Children Of Palestine. About Fidel Castro. About the young Vietnamese killed by the Americans. About the revolutionaries of my country.” (Satrapi 12).
Nationalist – she constantly shows her nationalist side by participating in protests, going against the school teacher in her teachings of the regime and Iranian history, marches around her yard shouting about going against the regime and his followers.
Mother Role Model – as a role model to her child, Marji’s mother gives Marji her trait of boldness by resenting the social standards under the regime, participating in violent protests, speaking violently ill against the place she lives in. When Marji asks to go with her to protests, her mother says “she should starts learning to defend her rights as a woman now!” (Satrapi 76)
Father Role Model – as a role model to his child, Marji’s father giver Marji her trait of a smart thinker by constantly discussing the ideals of the war and the many events that happen. He, in many places of the story, teaches her about the many ideas that the regime attempt to from children such as God did not choose the regime or the 99.99% vote for the regime was not the real result. “Come sit on my lap. I’ll try to explain it to you. God did not choose the king.” (Satrapi 19)
References
Dialectic Materialism – what is it? How does it relate to the story of Iran’s history? (12)
Iranian Revolution – who was involved in the revolution? How did it shape Iran into what it is in the story? (3)
Jeffrey To
Trang Tran
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Character profile: Marjane Satrapi
Islamic 10 year old girl
wants to become prophet pg. 6
Religious pg. 6
attends a French non-religious school pg. 4
experience “cultural revolution” when all bilingual schools were closed down pg. 4
Grandpa was a prince before the father of the shah took everything away and names him Prime Minster. He later became a communist pg. 23
grandpa went to prison pg. 31
favorite author was Ali Ashraf Darvishian local Charles Dickenson pg. 33
Her father took photos of the demonstration majority of the time even though it is forbidden pg. 29
She reads a lot pg. 33
ashamed of the revolution and being in dad’s Cadillac. And the different between social classes. Pg. 33
she was told that “Because in this country you must stay within your own social class” pg. 37
She stop taking the religious ceremony at school seriously and started making fun of them pg. 96
She got expelled from her school for “hitting” the principle when the principle was trying to take off Marjane bracelet… “ it is strictly forbidden to wear jewelry and jeans” pg. 143
wanted top be rebellious of her mom’s dictatorship and so she smoked which transform her into a women. “With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up” pg 117
Parent sent her away to Austria pg 147
She was into punk rock; her parent got her the latest Nike’s model, denim jacket, Michael Jackson button and two posters: Iron Maiden and Kim Wilde. Page 130
Alex Lam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Character Profile
Marjane, the antagonist is at first an ignorant girl, as she wants to bomb Baghdad and kill many Iraqi at once (page 82), She is forced to wear the veil and does not know what to think about it. She is also a rebel, cutting class whenever she wants to (page 113). As the story goes on, Marjane matures, while keeping her punk attitude when she moves to Vienna (page 191).
She experiences war and the revolution like no other, seeing all the atrocities and killings happening around her. She is moved and shocked by it (page 142).
Marjane also like to stand up for herself, say out lout what she thinks is right. She is brutally honest (page 143, 284 (interview with thw Mullah), 297 (in front of the entire school, asking for better “uniforms”).
At the end of the book, she is somewhat still naïve, using someone else to get away from trouble, illustrated by her telling the guardians that someone insulted her so she can see her lover (page 288).
She’s very close to her mother and grandmother through the story.
“Down with the Bourgeoisie” (Page 209)
Marjane’s Parents:
They have a Western Attitude, listening to the BBC for news instead of the Iranian TV (page 83). They also like to party. Mr. Satrapi is an engineering, and a leftist (communist perhaps?).
Daniel Lu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
List of References:
• Fire Ceremony (7)
• Prophets? (6)
• Conservative movement (4)
• History of oppression (11)
• Marx and Descarte (12)
• Story of the Shah (19)
• The war (79)
Shipra Pathak, Sharron Dawkins, Jennah Makalai
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Protagonist: Marji.
• She is 10 years old. Page 3
• She lives in Tehran.
• She is very smart for her age. Reads a lot of books. She is very interested in Politics, particularly in Marxism, and Communism. Page 12
• She went to bilingual French school before Islamic revolution started in 1979. Page 3-4
• As a young child at the age of 6, she wanted to be a prophet, and she often talked to God, and referred him as her friend. Page 6
• In school she was taught that God choose the King. Page 19
• She is the only child of her parents. In her family she has her mother, father and grandmother. Her maternal grandfather was a prince and Raza named him Prince Minister. Page 25
• She comes from a very liberal family and she always wanted to participate in demonstration against the Islamic revolution. Page 17-18
• She was very close to her uncle Anoosh, who was a revolutionary, and she considers him a hero. Page 54
• She was ashamed of her fathers Cadillac. Page 6
• She was writing a holy book with her rules of equality. Page 7
Other
• Anoosh: Her uncle.
• Ramin: Boy who Marji and her friends were planning to nail.
• Taji: Her mother
• Ebi: Her father.
• Grandma
• Neda: her Jewish neighbor’s daughter.
• Mehri: Maid
• Raza Shah: also known as Shah
References that require further inquiry:
• Players (Shah’s, Prime Ministers etc.) involved in and up until the Islamic Revolution. Reza Sha (overthrown by allies in WWII) > Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah) > 1951 Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq (nationalized oil – overthrown) > Shah returns until 1979 Confused about why the Shah was replaced by the Prime Minister
• Iran/Iraq conflict Page 84
Guorong Li
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
July 11, 2011
Character profile of Marjaire Satrapis
1) She is religious, wants to be the last Prophet. Page #8. She pity the poor. Page #33. She helps her maid Mehri to write love letter to her neibough’s son. Page #35.
2) She is kind of communist.
3) She is loving her country. Page #.79.
4) She is a rebel. Page #143.
5) She is bolshy page #132. Wearing jeans, Michael Jackson and so on.
Reference
1) She wants to be Justice, and the wrath of god all in one. Page #9
2) always wants to make her country change better.
3) She doesn’t like the regime page #144
Ramel George
Ricardo Antonio Chavarria
Michelle Kith
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Character Profile: Marjane Satrapi
-Marajne Satrapi is a strong girl who is rebellious but only because she is living under very strict and repressing circumstances.
-Marjane gets her revolutionary ambitions from her parents who are protestors of the Iranian Monarchy.
Marjane is 11 years old and lives in Iran. She lives there during the Islamic revolution in Iran to overthrow the Shah’s regime. She believes that she is a prophet and dreams that she talks to God on a regular basis. She thinks that she is chosen by God. Her parents are revolutionists who frequent rallies and demonstrations. Marjane also wants to go and protest at the big rallies, but since she is so small she cannot go and does small demonstrations with her friends. Since she is very young, she does not fully understand the issues that surround the revolution, such as the means of torture, why the school changes what is in the books or her family’s involvement with the Shah.
“At the of six I was already sure I was the last phrophet. This was a few years before the revolution” (Satrapi 6).
Marjane Satrapi's uses drawings to tell her story. She went to an international school as a young girl, and lived in France for a bit. She also grew up under a muslim regime, in Tehran, Iran. Marjane's is very rebellious, and western influenced. She used drugs to combat depression. Also at the age if ten, she believe she would be a God prophet. Marjane is a Muslim, but not a virgin.
Works Cited
Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. Paris, France: “L’Association. 2003. Print.
Virgil Gmable
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite:
The main character is Marjane Strapi. She is the 10 year old girl that is stuck in the middle of civil unrest in Tehran, Iran between the Shah and the citizens who are protesting their power . We see that her whole family has been affected by the unrest boiling in their city. I consider Strapi the protagonist and everyone affiliated would be considered the Strapi is the one telling the story from her point of view and as on pg 48 she dedicates what she has learned about the happenings of the area.. Even thought she is young she has revolution of what is being told to her by her parent s and what she suspects is really going on.
Character profile
- Innocent
- Impressionable (p48)
- Stubborn(pg 71)
- Open with words
Daniel Lu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite on Meena Alexander:
At first glance Meena Alexander’s “September Sunlight” seems innocuous enough, full of delicate details of doves, trees, and a visiting woman. However, details within the poem and the back story behind the words reveal the topic to be rather grim. Details such as the word “Hiroshima” paired with the line “woman in kimono, bird, and cloud/ turned to shadows staining the ground” reveal that the topic is in fact about the terrible nuclear bombing of Hiroshima during the end of World War Two (144). I realized with some shock that when the woman says “Here Seiji, here Setsuko” that she is referring to people, possibly her family, whose shadows where literally burned into the ground by the heat and light of the nuclear explosion. Yet even when writing about such a sensitive subject, Alexander is able to paint a scene seemingly so peaceful, the style of the poem reminding me of a haiku. The poem shows no hint of anger, rage, or blame towards the event, only tinged with sadness for the loss.
(Although I may be wrong, my interpretation of the very end of the poem was a yet another shock. I read it as if the woman herself is a shadow burned on the ground, forever stuck in the motions of walking down to the river.)
Jeffrey To
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Free write Invisible
“ River and Bridge” by Meena Alexander
The poem is describing a guy who wants to start a new life in “ Hudson’s edge to begin my new life” (pg 142). He talks about the landscape and the breeze this place offers to him. He came here in search of a new beginning. I guess this is because he did not like his old life. He believes going to this bridge will help him put away his old self and be reborn as a new person. He is on one side of the river. He describes trees and birds across the river on the other side. He believes if he crosses the river he will cross into a new life and a new beginning.
He personifies the river as her. Mentioning how much he misses her in the poem. I think he has a significant other but she passed away or left him. So, he goes to this river to start a new life without her because his old life was with someone. Now he is alone. By crossing to the other side of the river he leaves his old life behind.
At the end of the poem he mentions a battlefield. I believe he is in his own war. A war of what is reality and what is the past. The guys do not realize the reality of things. He is living in the past.
B.P
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
11 July 2011
Dilruba Ahmed’s “The 18th Century Weavers of Muslin Whose Thumbs Were Chopped” places the audience as the Ingrezi slave, who enters for the first a market, as indicated by her brief but powerful description of the marketplace. The main setting is the marketplace where weavers, in which the slave notices in the time at the market, display their beautiful clothes. The chopped thumbs which the title refers to is not meant literally, what it means to say is that these weavers will eventually lose their ability to weave these clothes, as though their thumbs were chopped off and they cannot weave as well as they could. The slave fits in with this situation of age is that at one point of his life, he was a child, seeing the world without fear and hardship and seeing the beauty of life through fun and experience. Now, the slave faces a hardship of slavery, becoming an opposite of his childhood and losing that beauty he once saw.
When she speaks of plastic bags overtaking a pond where someone washes up represents the idea that at one point, the pond was a place of perfection and beauty, much like the clothes. As time goes on, the plastic bags have taken over this beauty, much like how age has taken over the weavers and their clothes cannot be as beautiful as it was in the past. Though the poem begins with the slave, the main object in which this poem is surrounding is the weavers.
Manuel Francisco Seminario
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
July 11th ,2011
Character profie on Marji
10 years old in 1980
innocence is bliss (1-9)
starts having revolutionary thoughts,with her friends(10)
Gets to know her roots (20)
Begins to see her ignorance ,even though she reads books (32)
Worries about social classes(37)
Mixed feelings when teacher tells them to tear out the Shahs picture(44)
The truth is sometimes hard to accept(48)
Felt ashamed for herself(93)
Alex Lam
Professor Wand Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite
I feel like all the poems (we read so far) are experiences of people living in Southeast Asia. I really liked the last poem we read, “Draupadi’s Dharma” by Prmila Venkateswaran. A line caught my attention:
“My spirit is resilient, no doubt
Despite my rape at that demon’s wild hands”
I do not really get the meaning of it. Those poems were somewhat hard to understand, as if the words used weren’t used correctly. Maybe the language used here is so different from English, that it does not mean the same thing. The words here are so misleading; it is really hard for non-South Asian to understand each poem perfectly. We, the readers, probably don’t interpret the poems the way the authors wanted us to.
However, the last poem we were supposed to read from Reena Narayan, were really simple to read, with such an easy flow of words.
Work Cited.
Neelanjana, Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingan, eds. Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansas Press FAYETTEVILLE, 2010. Print.
Raymond Ye
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite on Indivisible
Many poets tend to use vocabulary that is simple, but tie in a lot of big words that people won’t normally use. They tend to bring things to the extremes by being over dramatic and using either very simple words or words no one has ever heard of. Novels and plays tend to cover a series of events lasting for a long time period, but poems tend to cover a specific moment in time or a short period. Poems tend to describe the scenery vividly and states every thought within the author in a brief moment. Also, most novels and plays are hundreds of pages long, but the majority of poems tend to be a couple of pages. The poems that rhyme usually have no meaning and no message because the author is too concentrated on the vocabulary used for the rhyme scheme, so the deepest poems are the ones with no rhyme and no particular patterns.
Joanna Louie
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Indivisible Free Write: “River and Bridge” by Meena Alexander
Author Meena Alexander writes with vivid imagery. In the poem, “River and Bridge”, I can picture the setting she is describing. Although her poem is short, three stanzas long, she packs each line with descriptions. In the first stanza she is describing the setting, and immediately we learn she is describing the Hudson’s edge. This is the place where she will begin her new life, and in the end states her judgment on life: “Birth is always bloody” (145). I am a little confused about the poem itself however. In the end it seems like she is describing a place of a danger, yet she describes this place so beautifully in the beginning. Alexander warns us that Homer and Vyasa know the danger of this place, but I still don’t. I am still confused what danger this place brings. There is some danger to the black river and bridge she describes, but what is it? Is this setting a previous battlefield? I’m not sure.
Works Cited
Banerjee, Neelanjana, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingam.
Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Print.
Shipra Pathak
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Free-write: Indivisible.
While reading poetries in Indivisible, the poetry caught my attention is Slow Dancing by Meena Alexander. It is a letter to Gandhi. Gandhi is a political and ideological leader of India, he is also knows as, Bapu or the father of nation in India. This poem includes Sabarmati Ashram, one of the Gandhi’s resident in his home state of Gujrat, India. Sabarmati Ashram is now turned into a museum and it is a tourist attraction for those who want to learn about the life Gandhi was living when he was trying to fight against British colonialism in India.
Gandhi was a freedom fighter; first he fought against the racism and the rights of Indians in South Africa, where he was working as a barrister. After his return to India, he fought against British raj in India. His policy of nonviolence or ahimsa was adopted by many, and it his policy is also mentioned in the novel Persepolis. He had a big impact on Martin Luthar King who was inspired by his policy of non-violence.
Works Cited
Banerjee, N. Kaipa, S. Sundaralingam, P. Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansan Press. Fayetteville, 2010. Print.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. Print.
Gerardo Guzman
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
River and Bridge, by Meena Alexander
The poem River and Bridge is steeped in allusions and imagery.
-Trees on the other side of the river/ So blue (as if something fantastical just out of reach)
-a flat, white oil tank with HESS in black
-A bridge Holzer (?) might skim with lights
-Come to the Hudson’s (Hudson River?) edge to begin my life/ To be born again
-Seep as water might/ In a landscape of mist, burnished trees
-Homer knew it and Vyasa too (Homer-Greek poet, Vyasa-?)
-black river
-Stinging eyes/ Crisscross red lights, metal implements
-Battlefields: birth is always bloody
These excerpts compose the majority of the 13 line poem. It is short yet packs in so many images and references. What did Homer know? Who are Holzer and Vyasa? Water is a symbol of purity and rebirth; it is used for baptism. The narrator is at a river’s edge seeking to be reborn but knows that it will be challenging, bloody.
Alexander, Meena. “River and Bridge.” River and Bridge. By Alexander. Toronto: Toronto South Asian Review Publications, 1995. Rpt. in Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Ed. Banerjee, N., Kaipa, S., and Sundaralingam, P. Fayetville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Print.
Michelle Kith
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
The book Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, contains poems expresssed from the perspective of different cultures and languages. One of the poems has a fastastic illustration of Japan, and its scenary that seem very real and vivid. When most people think about what the Japanese culture and it scenic views, it is exactly what was expressed in that particular poem. The poem came to life, and being a reader coming from an American cultural background, I found this poem very realistic and beautiful.
Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Ed. Banerjee, N., Kaipa, S., and Sundaralingam, P. Fayetville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Print.
Trang Tran
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July, 2011
Freewrite – Invisible
The poem September Sunlight by Meena Alexander written for Shuntaro Tanikawa is a very interesting poem. The poet mention, “Not so long ago in Hiroshima woman in kimono, bird, and cloud turned to shadow staining the ground” (pg, 144). In the line and the line before, we know that she is talking about Japan, and specifically Hiroshima. It could have the relation with the bombing of Hiroshima during the WWII that causes many casualties. The line where she said “turned to shadow staining the ground” could have meant the immediate death on impact of the bomb which could have burned their bodies both human and animals to the ground, thus turning them into permanent shadows.
S.D.
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Poetry Free Write: Indivisible
Of all the poems read in class today, the one that had any meaning to me was the title “September Sunlight”, and that is only because I was born in that month; as far as its content, there was no connection made between the two. I understood “Darupadi’s Dharma” a little more, because it seemed as though the women was pleading to experience a different life with her husband, over the current one she was living. As for listening to the other poems, I tried hard to find meaning in them. I struggled with some of the language and some of the words that were unfamiliar to me. Reading the poems made me realize that poetry is not necessarily for the reader, but more for the writer. I tried to think of how I could associate the poems with the readings we’ve covered in class, but I draw a blank. Maybe I need to read the poems again and again and contemplate them, and then maybe something would spark. I wish I could say more about the poems but I can’t. I know that poem grab the attention of the reader in many cases, however, that wasn’t the case for me in the poems read today.
Work Cited
Neelanjana, Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingan, eds. Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansas Press FAYETTEVILLE, 2010. Print.
Stephanie Chan
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Indivisible Free-Write
Meena Alexander’s poem, “Color of Home”, contains imagery in every line and stanza. Each stanza seems to have a different scenario for the reader to imagine. I thought her most interesting stanza was the last one. She leaves me with one question, “What is the color of home?”, which makes me contemplate the familiarities of my own life (Banerjee, Kaipa, Sundaralingam 145). When I read this poem, I think about my neighborhood, my hometown, and my community. I think about the various aspects of my home that I can identify with. Alexander makes her home seem special to her and also makes me feel appreciative of my own home. In reagrds to Marjane Satrapi, protagonist of Persepolis, I feel that she could relate to some of the scenarios of the poem. For instance, when Alexander says, “I walked with her by the river/these months when English fled from me/ and the young men of Manhattan/broke cherry twigs and scribbled on my skin/ till one cried out- I am the boy killed by dark water, / surely you know me?”, I think of Marjane and how she lives in an oppressed world where her thoughts are not welcomed (Banerjee, Kaipa, Sundaralingam 145). Other characters in Persepolis criticize her for her appearances and beliefs when she attends the European Boarding School. Although she moves to Europe for her own safety, she wishes she could be home in grief-stricken Iran, the place she appreciates the most.
Works Cited
Banerjee, Neelanjana, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingam.
Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Print.
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