Textual Analysis Of Persepolis

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Recommended: Iranian Revolution and Persepolis by Satrapi

The “Persepolis” not only records the childhood of Marji Satrapi in Iran, but also expresses her sense of growing on the personal values and reflects the social transformation in both film and graphic novel. The illustration style in both comics and film is very simple with iconic, black and white drawings, moreover, the film and graphic novel have applied different unique storytelling tool to narrate the story and conduct the visual description to the viewer and reader.When the film version of Persepolis intends to educate the viewers through depicting the shocking history of Iranian and encourage them to participate in an passive role; the graphic novel tries to bring more emotion to the readers by revealing the inner heart of the main
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This scene is extremely important to the viewers because it explicitly reflects the pop culture problem without hidden any other deeper message.This particular scene educates the viewer directly about people nowadays always refuse to understand and accept the difference of the other cultures, and idea of the multiculturalism is considered as an failed attempt in today’s world, including in Iran.The movie delivers and demonstrates the message about cultural conflict to the viewer without giving any others possibilities.On other words, when the viewers simply seeing and witnessing the entire situation, they become a passive receipt of the experiences.
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The mood of the reader is fluctuating with the character between each panel.
On the other hands, the graphic novel entails a thought provocation when the readers require to simultaneously interpret and imagine all the movements that happen between the frames.It means that the reader has to play an active role to interpret the message and meaning behind the story.When people are watching the film, they can easily understand the situation and difficulties which the character is facing since the film provides us all the information we need without requiring the viewers to build up a critical thinking on the content.As the course materials demonstrate

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