Last Thursday, Nov. 10, we watched most of Persepolis. Tuesday, Nov. 8, we watched a panel discussion with the author, producers, actors and artists re: Persepolis the film. Students were to write their poetry essays in class Tuesday, but elected to email them to me before class Nov. 8, 2011.
Food for thought
When thinking about the graphic novel Persepolis, how does the story of the Iranian revolution parallel that of the protagonist? How is the process of growing up, that is the maturation process; childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, a revolution of sorts? Think about Kimberly in Girl in Translation. How are the two protagonists similar?
Talk about the various allies Marji uses to test her theories on. How are they her conscious? I am thinking of God and her grandmother? However, there are others.
How specifically does the visual language of the work add to the narrative? Does the visual device ever become more or bigger than the thing, in this case, novel, itself?
How does art push the story and perhaps even the genre into another realm? What would you call this realm?
Is is poetry? How so? Why not?
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Adetona Adewale
Professor Sabir
English 1B
15 November 2011
Persepolis Freewrite
The story the “complete Persepolis” graphic novel’s theme of revolution parallels the protagonist because the meaning of protagonist is to be an advocate of political and social changes in government. When Marji leaves Tehran she’s only a little girl and she goes to Vienna to go to school, meets people that love to express themselves in rather eccentric and liberating ways, as soon as she befriends them she becomes one of them, and starts discovering who she really wants to be. She matured even more when she told the nuns that she was with done with them and screw them and she had to find a place to live on her own, which made her feel even more like an adult. One night Marji went to a party, met this one guy and talked for a long time that guy ultimately became her boyfriend, and she thought that she had found love. She rebelled against the ways of her upbringing by dressing differently than she normally would by wearing more reveling clothing and using offensive language. Kimberly from “girl in translation” and Marji from “Persepolis” is similar protagonist because they are both rebels when it comes to going against the ways of their formal cultures to rediscover themselves and become a new. Marji uses god when she prays for help a lot because she has a really strong faith in Allah because she is Muslim. Her Grandma helped by reminding her of her roots and who she really was, but told her not to completely forget where it was that she came from. The many visual devices that exist sometimes became the primary narrative in a particular scene such as when the nuns saw Marji walking and they asked her what she was wearing because it was a jacket that said “punk is not dead”. The art definitely pushes the story and the genre into a much different realm because it blends and combines vivid pictures with intense dialogue that creates a new genre that just makes your mind contemplate about the scenario of the scene even more. Yes I do believe that it is poetry because it was very poetically made because the script was written very expressively and with tons of passion.
Tia Gangopadhyay
Professor Sabir
English 1B 9-10:50 AM
17 November 2011
Persepolis Question
What and how does Marjane sacrifice for the sake of her freedom?
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