The Complete Persepolis

Essential Questions

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books What steps lead one to adulthood? What ought ethnic identity mean to us? What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

What We Should Learn The Horrors of Tyranny, Imperialism, and war The temptations of sex an drugs The blessings of free speech and personal liberties The character and history of Iran, through the eighties 

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books What steps lead one to adulthood? What ought ethnic Identity mean to us? What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

The Veil

Golnaz, Mahshid, Narine, Minna- Friends at school we don't know anything about them yet, but they do not like the veils that they are required to wear Mother- a strong woman who demonstrated in the streets against the veils that they have been required to wear    

Essential Questions

Characters

Plot Timeline

Islamic Revolution Takes Place in 1979 1980 All Females are Required to wear Veils All Bilingual Schools Shut Down and Girls are Separated from Boys Men and Women Protest in the Streets both For and Against the Veils The Main Characters Mother Gets Photographed Protesting the Veils in the Streets and Fears for Her Safety Has to Dye Hair and Wear a Disguise Out of Fear Main Character dreams of becoming a Prophet, but because she is a female people laugh in her face

The Bicycle 

What are the merits and aesthetic standards of comic books What steps lead one to adulthood? What ought ethnic Identity mean to us? What does it mean to be true to ourselvesEven though She believes that she will be 

What does it mean to be true to ourselves?

Request to go with her parents to demonstrate in the garden against the strict laws Still believes in her religion and still has a fighting urge to become the prophet

The Front Cover

The Grown Up Marhji Contemplating her childhood and her Family in Iran

Satrapi varies the number of cells from page to page By Means of Simple aestethic: Black and White, not many movements. etc Author is able to allow us to fill in the moments between panels. 

Terms

Emanata- things that eminate- Comic Book term Splash Page- When a single image takes up a whole Page

Point Of View

Perspective Shifts: Both Explanitory moments, and saying this is what my father said.. and looking back on it as an adult

could she have just written the book,and then like we say, all of this is happening. Or did she like write it like this 

Marhji- working through an education system were they are restricted on what they can learn. She has a personalized religion sense. And has a beautiful relationship with her grandmother.   Mother- Politcal activist who has to change her hair and disguise herself after her photo is taken protesting and published in magazines 

General Notes

The Veil

The Bicycle

Characters