Persepolis is not your average comic book.
Each frame is loaded with so much stuff!
Pick one frame from the beginning that you liked
(include a page number so we can look too).
Why did this image affect you?
How is "seeing" a novel different than just "reading" a novel?
-Sarah
14 comments:
I liked the frame where the women were fighting to be free or to wear the veil on page 5.This really didnt affect me but it was just interesting to see that people didnt really want to be free and they liked to be under the strict rules.Seeing a novel is better than reading a novel because you can really see whats going on and its faster.
ITS ON PAGE 54, AND ITS WHEN AHMADI WAS BEAT WITH A WIP, PEED ON AND BURNT WITH A IRON AND THEN ASSASSINATED.
IT WAS SO SAD TO SEE AND SEEING IT MADE IT MORE REAL AND HAD ME HURT BUT IF I WAS JUST READING IT I PROBABLY WOULDNT EVEN FEEL THE WAY I DO SEEING IT. IT HURTS TO SEE PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THAT.
Both Rhondesia and rome the man made interesting points in regard to the affect of the images in this book. rome made the distinction that although the images did not directly affect him, it made a diffence seeing, rather than simply reading. Rhondesia made the point that the images are powerful and cause emotions of sadness.
It seems to me that this visual book affects both of you in different ways. For me, some of the images, especially on page 54, stayed with me long after seeing/reading them...I tried to imagine what it would be like to leave somewhere that allowed the government to control what I wore. Seeing people publicly humiliated was tougher for me to take in rather than if I had just read it.
I also feel that Marji does an excellent job of including just a touch of humor and wit to lessen the blow of this book and its saddening images and content. It makes the book more 'real' for me as well by telling a story of a girl who is just as complex and changing as the world in which she lives...
-Jamie
Rhondesia,
Your post makes me think a lot. You said that "IT WAS SO SAD TO SEE AND SEEING IT MADE IT MORE REAL AND HAD ME HURT BUT IF I WAS JUST READING IT I PROBABLY WOULDNT EVEN FEEL THE WAY I DO SEEING IT".
I had the same experience. Do you like the contrast of powerful words with simple images?
david m per1
in the book persepolis is about a little girl name marji. in the story she want to join the revolution it is happing. after the king get kick out of power and a few day later some old friends got out of jail, but one friend die in jail and marji find out her vdad is not who he said
Maxwell R.
I've read the first 40 pages of PERSEPOLIS. It is about a girl born in a revolutionary time period of her families life . The new dictator throws them ito schools wearing veils. She wants to be a prophet and attend a revolution meeting. When she and her maid attended their meeting Its was a meeting called black friday where the people meeting where slaughtered leaving her parents very worried
jerome dixon,
This is a different book. this the first book that i read that didnt have any paragraphs .But tells us the story in all pictures
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Ruben C.
Reading the first 95 pages the images of Marji watching her friend leaving trying to escape from the Revolution that was going on in Iran. This image affected me because there was a time were me, my sister and my mother left from New York City and came to Buffalo for personal reasons and start a new life just the three of us. Reading this novel even though there is not alot of reading the pictures in the novel tell alot how Marji and her family lived in Iran during the revolution.
31 people should die just because they believe in freedom of speech
umar jackson
Umar,
I was looking back over everyone's comments, and I wondered if you could explain your last statement..I wondered if you meant to say "should not" instead of "should"...thanks! :-)
-jamie
On page39 there is a frame that shows Marji's maid being smacked because she had taken her out to a demonstration. I think this image effected me becaues to see a grown woman be smacked in public for really no good reason was kind of shocking. I understand that she had no business taken Marjane to the demonstration but I don't think she should have been hit I think that is wrong. Seeing a novel is different than just reading it because it is easier to visualize what is going on in the book. You can understand easier what the characters are going through because you can see it happening in front of your very own eyes.
Cholly C.
Per. 1
The book would be easy to read but it was kinda but it just got confusing with all the small words.It was an interesting book.I like how Marji wanted to stand up for what was right.
THIS BOOK WAS ALRIGHT! IT SHOW HOW FAST WEAS TEENAGERS GROW UP. I REALLY FEEL FOR THE IRIANIANS WHO WENT THROUGH SO MUCH, THIS BOOK HSAS A GREAT MEANING!!!!
tim r
per 5b
persepolis by marjane satrapi is a graphic novel about a youg grils life. i am done reading this book. persepolis is a very inportin book for me because i did not relly know how people in the middle east live. by reading this book i know now that women in iran have no rights like in the u.s.a. do. i have a new like on the life of other people. i can't wate to read part 2 of persepolis.
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