Denitza's Week 6

1) In class.

We did not spend much time discussing english this week.
Monday- no school
Wensday- time to work solidly on socials works with conferences.

Thursday was the only time that we got to discuss Persepolis. So, on thursday we shared our snippets and had long discussions on analyzing things like the cover of the text.

Vocab to remember;

*Catharsis- Greek trageties. When you see a play that is tragic you feel good because your life is better.

*Hubris- fatal character flaw that brings the character down.

2) I like how we talk about the text, but we usually focus on talking towards Mr.McG. I think that we should refer to each other, and what one person said before the other and make it more comfortable to speach WITH each other, not like Mr.McG. is there assessing us. I also think that there are people that have either said very little this unit or nothing while our discussions. I think that those people should be pointed out to speak, otherwise they wont.

3) LIterary Features and Snippets.

*Kevin (the cover)- the circle of stares. Everybody is looking at each othe, but ina circle. Eye direction (towards the reader) are shown on pages 43 and 185. Anoosh is loking out of the though bubble and into the big picture of Marjane. He is breaking the 4th wall - like Aaron would say. An idea Mr. McG. had was that all of the people in the background might be foils of Marjane. Ex. Anoosh had to escape for a while, like she did to Austria. Granny and Anoosh have different hair colors (the motif 'hair' starts from the very beginning!) showing that their her mentors because they stand out from everyone else. Speaking of standing out, Marjane is the only one in the thought bubble wearing a white shirt- this could be to show who is the main character.

*Fion(304)- If partying, drinking, making love, having fun and all those things that are illigal, then people would keep on doing them behind the sights of the guards just because these actions are illigal. (Manny)- Ex. Stratford Hall's lunch problem.

*Myself(307-309)- I really like how the positioning of the each of the panels are. I mean there are some panels that are very thin and short, and some that are lengthened and stretched. This shows time progression in different ways. Ex. When the lady picks the phone and the door bell rings (307) all of those panels are thin and little because these things happen very fast. As this event progresses the panels become bigger and larger, showing that time is passing slowly- that could be because of the tension in the story.

*Megan(308)- Because on this page there is no dialogue, it makes the reader think and read visually. Moon= femininety. Maybe, when the guy is falling, he is trying to grab to femininety, the moon.

*McG.(302)- Marjane speaks up for herself by looking straight at her reader, basically like she is talking to us. She is playing around with the medium. She breaks the rules of the story by speaking to us.

*Fion(comparing 43 and 323)- art foil and/or juxtaposition, the guns and dragon/ soldiers are surrounding the family.

*Alice(327, 146, 25)- the half shaded faces. Alice talks about this on her blog and I completely agree that when someone face is haf shaded that means that they are showing a different side of them. Its like they are opening up to us and showing us something. On page 327 where Marjane and Reza are studying, I think that when you take the white half of Marjane's face and the black half of Raza's, and then combine it, you will get the ying-yang that Geneva talked about last week.