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.

Persepolis Blog # 1

Reading Persepolis was a lot of fun. The first time I have seen the Persepolis book was a very long time ago. I was like, "oh this book looks interesting". I only read the first couple of pages and was like, "I don't get this book". But reading it now I sort of get the book. The first time I read through the book, it was a lot of fun and interesting. I couldn't stop reading it. I even read the second Persepolis book. The second was a lot more detail than the first book. But I like the first book more. Now to the prompts.
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The first prompt is how did the revolution exert power and influence over so many people, including many educated and middle class people like Satrapi's parents? Why did so many people leave after the revolution? Why do you think Marji's parent send her off to Austria while they stay in Tehran? Why don't they leave/ escape as well?
Well the revolution caused many people to not have the freedom they used to have. It caused the people to be afraid of the people who are in control. The people fear for their lives, their family and friends, and other people. Being educated and having money didn't really mean anything. It didn't; really help them live a happy life. Many people left after the revolution because they didn't know if another revolution was going to begin or not so they left. I think Marji's sent her to Austria because they didn't they want their daughter to have a happy life after all that has happen to them her parents want her to be a well educated woman. Marji's parents stayed back, I think is because they didn't want to leave behind all their life's memory and because of their friends and family that were still there in Tehran.
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The second prompt is "Every situation has an opportunity for laughs." Give some examples of how the ordinary citizens of Iran enjoyed life despite the oppressive regime. What made you laugh? How does Satrapi add comic relief? How are these scenes relevant to the story as a whole? The people in Iran enjoys life by having secret parties. Having the parties helps them have their own way of freedom and relieving their stress of all the stress they get from the revolution. Some people like Marji tried to wear make up and wear sneakers to enjoy life, but was almost jailed. There were many things that I thought that was funny. There was the part were Marji's uncle told her the stories of when he was in jail. It was the part where he was saying that his girlfriend came to visit him in jail and wanted to have a child with him in the prison. I thought this was funny because that is just weird having a child in a prison cell. I also thought the part when Marji's mother's friend came and stay with them because of the bombing. Her mother's friend had two son and when they were about to go to bed that were talking about Star Wars and who they like. Marji said that she liked Princess Leia and one of the boy said that she is ugly. It was so funny. I think she add comic relief to show that the book can be funny and it doesn't have to be all about the war and the killings.
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The third prompt is "In spite of everything, kids were trying to look hip, even under risk of arrest." How did they do this? What do you think you would have done had you been as a teen? In what ways is Satrapi just a normal kid? They would have different style of haircuts, cut school, listen to the different kinds of music that are forbidden and wear make-up. I think that is I was to be in that kind of environment I would do things that are "hip" but I would never put myself in danger like what Marji and her friends did. When I was a teen or still is, I did some really stupid things that I still don't know why I did it. I would do things as cheat on test and do other bad things. First you have to define normal. One can't really define the word normal and compare the word to someone. But just to say, ways that Satrapi is just a normal kid because of the things she did to have fun and want to do. It is also the way she act to get what she want.