1) In Class.
During these two week we did many important discussions. We began (week 2) with question discussions. My question was;
To what extent are people a product of their place and time?
I answered this question by splitting Satrapi's life into 2. The first part of her life is in Iran andn the second in Austria. I talked about how the protagonist and the people around her are affected because of their time and place.
For ex. Marji was taught in school (her daily surrounding) to love the king, yet her parents are against him (19). This confuses our protagonist on which side is correct to follow.
As time passes, rules change and people have to follow different things and change their surroundings and way of thought (like 1984, forces people to change their way of thinking, or another way said would be, doublethink). For ex. when Marjane tells her partner that it was weird how the teacher said one thing about the Shah and now changed her mind and told them to rip the pages out (memory hole, 1984. Losing all sorts of infomation that might bring up a memory) proving that the surroundings of Marjane confuse her, according to what was happening at the time (44).
It isnt until Marjane is Austria when she realizes who she is and what she feels and wants to follow. An ex. would be page 197, she finally found out who she really is. The fact that she exclaims the she is and "Iranian and proud of it", proves that the place where you have lived does affect your character.
I was happy to hear from my other two companions (Bhanesha and Lucy) and their ideas and realizations about persepolis connecting to their questions, because that gave me a wide variety of knowledge in different parts of the book.
*We continued with further discussing 3 points;
a. Marjane's parent's want to be religious modernists.
b. Heroes are always men.
c. Mr. McGuigan: Marjane is a hero behind a veil.
*We also taked about questions you can ask yourself while reading Persepolis;
a. How could you be more then your parts?
b. What you say +what you do, which one dictates who you are?
c. Is it fiction or non-fiction?
d. How does the drawing help you understand the concept and theme?
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Next week (week3) we discussed perspectives in which you can write literature. They were;
-Feminism
-Racism
-Markism
-Religious fundamentalist
-Confusion reading
-Hollywood producer
-Mr.McGuigan's perspective
-Marchiavellian
-New Critism
We mostly focused on grammar (semi-colons and colons). I found it extremely helpful, because I know how unwell I use punctuation.
*Semi-colon
--> Between 2 independant clauses that mirror each other, but arent really connected.
--> Provides a further explanation and seperates multiples independant clauses.
--> Used to also replace a period before a connecting word (ex. indeed, anyways) with a comma after the connecting word.
*Colons
--> Used for a list, or implify or extend an idea. (colon words ex. likewise, therefore, etc.)
2) Things Mr.McGuigan said.
For both, week 2 and 3, Mr.McGuigan let the class teach each other and bounce off ideas off one another. I find this useful because that way we learn different perspectives that we might not have noticed but someone else has. The snippets and the discussions we have in class are very productive. There were somethings that I think are important to remember, which Mr. McG said;
*Simple drawings=anyone in the world
*More detailed drawings=more unlike you
*Writting from a different point of view illuminates your style of analysation.
*Tuning your guitar properly to make your show go smoothly= strong introduction.
(Think before you do.)
*The SUPER COMMA
*New Vocab--> recalcitrant= stubbernly unco-operative.
--> extentialism=people create their own meaning. (philosophy)
3) Literary Feature Hunt.
pg. 102
~Juxtaposition between both photos. The people in the panel are not given a face (this could mean the lower class because of the ironic idea of the golden key), they are censored, meaning they can be anyone.
pg. 116
~Great way to present imagery, because the battlefield that we see is what Satrapi the child is thinking in her head. We would think, why a child would be thinking of such horrid things? Well if we go back to the question 'to what extent are people a product of their place and time' we would realize that because of Marjane's surroundings (ex. parents) and the time that she lived, her personality is set this way.
~ I found it interesting that there was a door at the bottom of the page. I think that this door represents freedom, freedom to flee out of this war. This is foreshadowing to when Satrapi gets sent of to Austria. Geneva thought that the door meant entering childhood. I also partly agree with her due to the pursue of the story on page 117.
pg. 181
~Satrapi uses metaphorto express her idea and thought into the image. The image is juxtaposed due to her day dreaming about what the mother is talking about and the connection between her and Marjane. The angle of the shot is very important because it limits the reader from seeing the people sitting at the table. This could also have been done purposely because, like Mr.McG said, little detail means that it can be anyone in Iran, sitting close to the caspean sea.
pg. 189
~Allusion to superhero. She is growing up and changing through hyperbole. This panel reminds me of the hulk, but the statement 'Heroes are always men' keep coming back to me and I just can not accept Marjane as a hero in this panel, but more like as a weird allusion of her years of puberty.
4) Snippets.
pg. 71
-> She lost her religion for kicking God out.
-> Just emptiness. Very extential moment.
-> She isn't there, her bedroom is gone. She can't hold onto anything.
-> There is less white in each panel (starting from pg. 70-71), presenting how she is loosing herself and that she can not understand what is really happening around her. I think that the reason she is lost is because she is in a great depression here, due to her uncle's execution.
-> This connects to 1984, when Winston was also falling into space, because he too was in a depression for not having any freedom. He was lost too.
pg. 185
-> There is a great party going on in the room, but Marji is completely lonely and fearful because she is not used to this type of environment. Through the eyes of the character, Marjane is telling us that she isnt belonging.
-> This panel can be presented as an indirect and direct presentation.
->The author has placed Iranian art work (ex. wall, carpet, smoke) around the room to illuminate how much Satrapi was missing Iran at that moment.
pg. 156 (last 3 panels)
-> Examines the difference in social structures and the contrast of how girls are set to think according to their surroundings.
-> The last 3 panels show the difference in the text, as well as the graphics. Marji is dressed in dark colored clothing the Zozo's daughter, showing the difference between societies. The background is white, just like Zozo's daughter, telling us that Satrapi is in a different society.
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