Persepolis Blog #2

Okay doing blogs are getting a little bit boring. I am getting king of bored of blogging. It is fun but I don't really want to do it anymore. But I have to do it for Erin. I'll like to dedicate this blog to Erin. This is for you, Erin!
So, now let's start BLOGGING!
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First prompt is the one about why Satrapi wrote this kind of novel. I think this kind of genre is popular because children, teenagers, and adults like books that has picture and words. They like books that have words to go with the picture. I don't know if this is true but this is my theory on why people like reading this kind of books. I think Satrapi chose this format to write her story because I think she wants many different people to read her story and to know what she went through. The graphic pictures in the book show a detail picture of what Satrapi see and by seeing the detail picture we get to see what she saw and get a better idea of what she had went through. What a conventional memoir lacks is that it makes one have to visualize what is really going on in the story when maybe one is wrong. They can imagine only a little part of the story but if they have the graphic picture in front of them then it makes it much easier to understand the story and the meaning of it. I don't know if I'll call Persepolis a comic book because a comic book doesn't have as many pages as a graphic novel, which is what I call Persepolis, a graphic novel. Mostly all comics are fictional but graphical are non-fictional. If I had to place Persepolis in a bookstore I would place the book in the non-fictional books, but I'm not sure.
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Second prompt is the one about Persepolis being a memoir would it have been if Satrapi had written it as fictional. In my opinion, I think that her story as a memoir is more powerful than if she was to fictionalized the story. The story being a memoir makes it a very powerful and meaningful story. If she has fictionalize her story it wouldn't really be about her. It would be but it wouldn't be all true. It would be fictional. It would be way better if it is true and people and really relate to what Satrapi went through and what she has to do to get where she is now. The benefits of a memoir is that it tells the reader what the author really went through. The drawback of a memoir is that when you are writing the story you can forget what really happen or you get that memory mixed up with another memory. For example, if I was to write a memoir, I would have to think really, really, really, REALLY hard about my memories.
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Third prompt is about how Persepolis is organize. Persepolis is structure as a graphic pictures together, which is like a comic but is not. The stories are put into panels. The pictures does not have color like other picture books. The pictures are black and white. I think it doesn't have color because of the very sad things that has to do with Satrapi. She emphasize sadness, worries, and sometimes happiness. Her drawings can be look at and you can tell the stories right from the drawings. How the drawings add to the narrative of the story is that the drawings helps the text. It makes it easier to understand. The text wouldn't make sense without the drawing and the drawing won't make sense without the text. They need each other to be understand. The texts and drawings, how Satrapi wrote it, makes it funny to the reader. The novel is an easy reading book.