What does Satrapi say regarding disparity between the classes before and after the Iranian Revolution? Discuss some examples that Marji witnesses and contemplates.*.Discussion QuestionsĬheck out the discussion questions below and connect with readers on Instagram to share your reactions, thoughts and questions by using the hashtag #WFWIBookClub, and tagging us with We want to hear what you think-share with us your take on the book! But it's also a testament to spark within each person and the vibrancy of women's voices when offered love and freedom. Persepolis continues to be a classic view at how war and violence change a society, and become an opening for those who would seek to exert power over others to squash people's spirits-especially women's. She continues her studies and reclaims her voice and direction, before heading to France. After failed friendships and relationships, Satrapi returns home to an Iran of public and private contradictions, and strives to reconnect with her family and friends. With love, they sent her to study in Vienna.įor the adolescent Satrapi, Europe proves to be a different kind of oppression: isolating and Othering.
As the tides changed in their society, her boldness and need to question the status quo signaled a need for change from her parents. Satrapi's illustration and storytelling intersperse humor with the growing repression from those who would twist faith into a cudgel for power. During her childhood, Satrapi's parents cultivated her intellectual curiosity, political mind, and independence. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom— Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.In stark black and white illustrations, Satrapi delivers a coming-of-age story amidst a backdrop of violent political upheaval and the Iran-Iraq War. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming— both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.
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