Persepolis work Book 2
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Chapter
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Page
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Scholar
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The Soup
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157
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John
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Tyrol
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166
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Noah
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Pasta
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175
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Madeleine
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The Pill
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182
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Deborah
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The Vegetable
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191
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Jo
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The Horse
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200
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Jack
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Hide and Seek
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209
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Eleanor
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The Croissant
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225
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Fred
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The Veil
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235
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Freja
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The Return
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248
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Jamie
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The Joke
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260
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Famhi
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Skiing
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269
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Peter
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The Exam
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278
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Furkan
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The Makeup
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287
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Keira
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The Convocation
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294
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Indi
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The Socks
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301
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Marina
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The Wedding
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314
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Cam
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The Satellite
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322
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Phoebe
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The End
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143
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John & Liam
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p157, THE SOUP, John
ReplyDeleteMS arrives in Vienna
She can't stay with her mother's friend for long
The adults are arguing
Like many exiles Houshang, the husband, is adversely affected by the loss of social and economic status
MS has to go and live in a boarding-school convent
She goes a bit crazy with excitement in the well-stocked supermarket
She has to share a room with Lucia, all they can do is grin at each other because they don't share a language
MS is isolated, she can't even share in a funny TV program because she has no German
Prompt1 battle between know/feel Zozo and Houshang - they know life is tough and they have made very difficult choices for their freedom but the seem to feel sad, angry, frustrated, humiliated and argumentative
Prompt 3 conflict with self: NO. In this chapter the conflict Marjane has with Zozo and Shirin is far more significant and determines the changing course of her life. It is more important here than any internal conflict.
pg 189, THE VEGETABLE, Jo
ReplyDeleteMarjane outlines the physical changes she goes through as she grows older
Whenever Marjane is offered a joint, she recalls her parents talking about her cousin becoming a vegetable after injecting himself so many times, and so she only pretends to smoke and fakes the effects
She begins to feel like she is distancing herself from her culture, betraying her parents and her origins, ‘playing a game by somebody else’s rules’
She starts denying her nationality, telling people she’s French
Later, when she hears people talking about her she blows up, saying she’s Iranian and proud of it
She then feels like she had redeemed herself, and feels proud of herself for the first time in a year
How the chapter relates to the prompts:
Prompt 1: panel 2 on pg 193 – panel 2 on pg 14, Marjane knows she is Iranian and that she can’t change that, but she feels like a coward for not being at home in Iran and feels extremely guilty for lying about herself and denying her heritage and culture.
Prompt 3: panels 1-2 on pg 193, panels 3-6 on pg 195, Marjane battles with herself in trying to assimilate to living in Vienna whilst feeling that she was distancing herself from her culture and betraying her parents and struggles over what to do – whether she should deny her heritage in order to better fit in, or to embrace it and not lie about her past and where she comes from.
P 175, PASTA, Madeleine
ReplyDeleteIt is the school holidays and all Marjane's friends go on holidays
She decides to educate herself by reading and she believes it will help her to fit in with her friends
Marjane read about Bakunin, the history of communism and Satre
She went to the supermarket a lot during this time
She made spaghetti one day for dinner
She starts to eat it in front of the TV straight from the pot
The nuns yell at her and say that Iranians 'have no education' and Marjane responds by saying that all the nuns were former prositutes
She is forced to leave where she is living by the nuns
Marjane goes and lives with her friend Julie
Relation to prompts:
(I have the two book set so the page numbers are different to the single book)
The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
Panel 6, page 23. Marjane knows that she should not be calling the nuns prostitutes but she feels angry and upset that Mother Bridget has insulted her so she calls the nuns prostitutes. This goes against what she knows but what she feels overruns her logical thoughts and goes with what she feels.
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
Panel 5, page 24. One of the nuns tells Marjane to leave where she is staying because of what she said to one of the nuns. Marjane doesn't fight back she decides to leave because she is sick of the nuns and feels that they have been cruel to her. Conflict has occurred but combat was avoided by Marjane because she did not believe it was worth the fight.
p328 THE END Liam
ReplyDeleteMarjane and Reza are given a visual communications project to create a theme park based on Iranian mythological heroes.
Marjane talks to her friend about getting a divorce and then talked about it again with her grandma.
She found a job as an illustrator at an economics magazine.
Two months later an illustrator made a drawing for an article on Iranian soccer calling the player an assassin. The illustrator is arrested but no oneknows what happened.
Marjane told Reza that she wanted a divorce.
After the divorce Marjane decided to leave Iran again and go to France.
Not long after she left her grandma died.
How the chapter relates to the prompt
Prompt 1 - The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel:
Panels 6 & 7 on p331. Marjane knows that the illustrations cannot be of women without a veil but she feels that drawing them without a veil is better.
Prompt 3 - The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self:
Panel 3 on p332. Marjane doesn’t know whether she loves Reza and whether or not she should get a divorce.
pg 138, THE CONVOCATION, Indi
ReplyDelete• Marji was finally a student
• Still not telling anyone she is with Reza
• Her first lesson was art history
• Made friends on her first day of school
• Grandma gave Marji a headscarf
• The boys and girls are separated at the school
• Marji sticks up for herself and the other women
• Got sent to the Islamic commission
• Marji made a sketch of a different uniform
• Grandma was happy with Marji again
(I have the two book set so the page numbers are different to the single book)
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
Page 143, panels 1-6. Marji is more mature now, so she just asks the man calmly why women are picked on about their clothing and not the men. No combat happened at all in the amphitheatre but there is still great conflict between Marji and the men sitting up front.
The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
Page 140, panels 2-5. Marjis grandma is still disappointed in her as she got an innocent man arrested. Marji knows her grandma is still angry but she really doesn't want it to be that way. She feels she has to do something right to win her back. Page 144, panel 9. Marji stuck up for the women and the grandma was proud of her again.
pg 209, Hide and Seek, Eleanor
ReplyDelete* All of MS’s friends are no longer at school, leaving her alone and without interest of other people
* MS has a boyfriend named Enrique
* Enrique takes MS to anarchist parties
* Enrique tells MS he is gay and they break up
* MS still finds herself involved with anarchists and druggggs
* MS gets asked out for a drink by a boy, but when they are out he just talks about maths
* MS then meets a boy named Marcus who she starts dating and falls in love with
* Markus’ mother doesn’t allow MS in her house because she is Iranian and Frau Doctor Heller doesn’t allow Markus over because she thinks MS is a prostitute
* MS becomes the school’s drug dealer
How It Relates to the Prompts:
PROMPT #3: The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self
When MS is out with Jean Paul there is no real conflict between the two of them, although when he leaves she is left with a lot of conflict herself, saying that she’s ‘delusional’, a ‘stupid girl’ and an ‘imbecile’ for thinking that he might like her ( last panel of page 219). This is similar to the event when Enrique tells MS he is gay and MS thinks it’s because she is ‘ugly’, ‘hairy’ and ‘terrible’ (panel three on page 215).
PROMPT #2 Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MS finds herself doing a lot of drugs so she doesn’t have to confront her ‘solitude’ and ‘disappointments’. Although she doesn’t confront these things, they are still an issue (panel three on page 220).
p233, THE VEIL, Freja
ReplyDeleteSummary:
-MS mourns her relationship with Marcus
-She cannot stand to live in her apartment anymore and moves out onto the street
-She lives on the street for over two months and catches an illness, eventually passing out
-She wakes up in a hospital and learns that she is suffering from severe bronchitis and is lucky to have survived
-She goes to see her mother's friend, Zozo, who informs her of her family's concern for her wellbeing
-After a telephone call with her parents, MS is heading back to Iran
-She spends five days in a hotel during which she smokes against doctor's orders
-Finally putting her veil back on in preparation for her return to Iran
Prompts:
#1: The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
In getting over her ex-boyfriend, MS does not engage in an internal struggle between what she knows and what she feels, but rather uses what she knows (her experiences with Marcus) to fuel what she feels (anger, which is less painful than her earlier feelings of loss), using instances such as his spending her money to give support to her feelings of betrayal and rage.
(Pg.236-237)
#3: The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self.
After MS leaves the hospital, she smokes profusely despite the warnings from her doctor that it is life threatening to do so. She does this to avoid confronting the "shame at not having become someone" that she feels after almost throwing her life away.
(Pg. 244, last panel)
P246, THE RETURN, Jamie.
ReplyDelete•Marjane returns to Tehran (hence the title).
•Marjane finally feels at home for the first time in a long time.
•She realises that she has changed since she left Iran, she hates punk with a passion.
•Mrs Satrapi offers Marjane a cigarette.
•Marjane believes that her mother views her as an adult for the first time.
•Marjane uses a sponge to clean a punk drawing she drew before leaving Iran.
•Deciding to go for a walk around Tehran, Marjane quickly rushes home because she feels like she is walking through a cemetery.
•Mr Satrapi has lots of walk as an engineer.
•Marjane and her father have what seems to be a long talk about the last month of the war.
•The chapter ends with Marjane being told by her father that over 500,000 people are victims of the war.
•She decides not to tell her family about what happened in Austria because her parents are stressed enough.
How the chapter relates to the prompt.
The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
P249 panels 3-5. Mrs Satrapi confidently gives Marjane a cigarette because she knows the Marjane is old enough, yet answers with hesitation when asked about her tapes possibly because she does not know how Marjane will feel and react if she tells her that she gave them away. In the panel where Marjane asks about the tapes you can see that both are expressionless possibly showing some type of thinking about how they feel about the situation. Talking representing the knowledge, and the thinking representing the feelings of the two.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self.
P257 panels 1-3. In opposition to the prompt Marjane is deeply effected when learning the sheer number of deaths by execution, the second panel has no words just an image of Marjane wiping tears of her face. The detainees had been executed. One shooter, one victim. Marjane only asks simple questions and gives simple answers to her dad after hearing the news, showing that she has been effected psychologically.
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ReplyDeletepg 180, THE PILL, Deborah
ReplyDeleteSummary :
- MS is a lot more comfortable living with Julie
- However, she is constantly surprised by how liberal Julie is regarding sex and how she rude she is to Armelle, her mom
- MS takes a liking towards Armelle because she understands MS's nostalgia for Iran
- Julie mentions that she's on the pill instead of using a condom
- When Armelle leaves temporarily for a U.N job, Julie throws a party at their house
- MS is turned off by the smoking and public displays of affection at the party
- Later than night, she finds out that Julie is sleeping with her nineteenth guy
- MS tries to hide behind her best friend, a book but sees a few half-naked people in the house
- As the night progresses, she becomes stoned
- That night, MS finally realises the meaning of 'the sexual revolution', her first step toward assimilating into western culture
Prompt :
prompt 2 - conflict is inevitable/combat is optional : panel 8 pg 180 & panel 4 pg 182 - In the first instance, MS faces conflict with Julie because in her culture, parents were sacred and children should be polite but Julie seems to show no regard for this. Secondly, MS is shocked when Julie rattles off the names of people she's slept with because MS thinks this is information that should be secret. However, MS does not combat or confront Julie openly about any of this.
prompt 1 - battle between know and feel : panel 1 pg 180 to panel 8 pg 188 - Throughout the chapter, MS battles between what she feels (that children should be respectful towards their parents, sexual experiences should be kept private, public displays of affection are offensive) and what she eventually comes to know (that these things are normal and to assimilate into western culture and she must accept it)
Pg 225, THE CROISSANT, Freddie
ReplyDelete• Marjane is told by God what book he shall have to do for a test at school, which she does very well in
• Marjane went from job to job for a while before settling in a café where she was a waitress
• The principal talked to Marjane about her school’s drug problem, affectively telling her to stop dealing
• Marjane started to take more and more drugs which led to Markus distancing himself from her and her only just graduating (she thanked God for this)
• After making some new friends, Marjane would regularly meet with them in a café to talk about politics
• At that time in Austria, politics were a big talking point amongst students
• Markus spent almost all of his time writing plays and this, as well as political arguments with him, annoyed Marjane
• Marjane decides to celebrate her 18th birthday with a friend, but not with Markus
• She was going to catch the train to reach her friend but she missed it
• Marjane then buys some croissants to give to Markus but when she arrives at his house she finds that he has been sleeping with another girl, ending their relationship
Prompt 1: Know and Feel: pg 232, Panels 1- 4: Marjane feels that she loves Markus and that she can make it work with him, but she knows that their relationship is really struggling due to Markus’s large amount of work and their arguing over politics
Prompt 2: Combat and Conflict: pg 231, Panels 2-6: Marjane and Markus argue about their political believes which is an example of conflict between the two, but it doesn’t become conflict as they both keep their cool
The Horse pg198 Jack
ReplyDeleteSummary
Marjane is now living in a communal apartment, the Wohngemeinschaft. She lives with 8 other people, all homosexual guys.
She had been living in Austria for a year and a half.
MS gets a phone call from her mother, her mother will be visiting.
She barely recognised her mother, but her mother barely recognised her.
She stays with Marjane for a while. While they eat, she hands a letter from her dad to Marjane.
They go on many walks and talk about happening s of the last 19 months.
They go to a university to talk to Dr. Heller about the room. Marjane needs new lodgings since she can only live at the apartment for four months.
Afterwards they make fun of Dr. Heller, saying she looked like a horse and her tea tasted like horse piss. “Horse piss from a horse face!!”
Marjanes mother left Austria to go back to Persia.
How the chapter relates to the prompt
Prompt 3 – Conflict with self: panel 8 on pg 202
The letter from her dad explains how overjoyed he is to hear that she has had a peaceful life in Vienna. She feels guilty for lying to her parents and letting them think everything has been great. She knows there will be less worry and conflict between her parents if she lies, but she feels as though she must keep it a secret to prevent the conflict.
p269 Skiing Peter
ReplyDeleteMS is being given advice from everyone around her.
She doesn’t want advice. She wants pity and understanding from her family.
Thought she’d forget the ‘old days’ by coming back to Iran and her secrets from Vienna are weighing her down.
MS goes into depression.
MS decides to go skiing with her friends to lift her out of depression. The trip was successful.
MS and her friends discuss her sexual encounters and it ends with MS’s traditionally raised friends becoming aggravated.
MS arrives home even more depressed than when she left.
MS sees a psychiatrist who prescribes her with what seems to be anti-depressants.
She takes all her anti-depressants at once in order to commit suicide. She survives waking up 3 days later and realises that she “was not made to die.”
MS then betters herself by looking after herself and becoming a fitness instructor.
Prompt 2: Conflict is inevitable when MS discusses her sexual encounters with her friends. Her friends were raised traditionally and try to shame her, but MS takes their criticism and leaves without any conflict. She probably understands the reason for the aggression from her friends due to their lifestyle in Iran and MS’s experiences in Vienna.
Prompt 3: MS in this chapter feels she is at conflict with her friends and her family. Despite all the judgement she receives she is able to live through another day. The real battle is between her, the secrets she hides from her family and the fulfilment she is seeking from being in Iran. She then attempts to kill herself by using anti-depressants due to depression.
pg301,THE SOCKS
ReplyDelete• Ms’s art class has to draw a fully cloaked woman instead of the previous models which were nude
• MS got in trouble by a college supervisor for drawing a man, and having to look at him
• MS yelled at officials after they commented on her “obscene” arse movements whilst she was running
• The slightest thing can associate a woman with rebellion, MS’s red socks, showing your wrist or having a Walkman
• Women constantly have to think about how they look in order to avoid getting into trouble with officials, they also no longer have time now to question their freedom or rights
• MS and her friend’s behaviour is very rebellious in private compared to the opposite which is their behaviour in public which is highly reserved and in accordance with the rules and dress code
• One of MS’s friends dies trying to escape officials when they raid their party
PAGE 301 PANEL 3:
i) MS knows that she has to conform to the rules. But MS also feels that she should be able to draw other people in art class who aren’t covered in the veil
ii) The conflict is that the art class has nothing to draw (except a black sheet, which looks the same from every angle), but it is not worth the class combating the issue by rebelling, they will not win the fight
PAGE 303 PANEL 8:
iii) MS fights with herself to not harm the officials (as they were very rude to her, commenting on her behind) even though she would very much like to harm the officials, she debates over the consequences that could come from this
Marina
pg 10, TYROL, Noah
ReplyDelete-MS is frustrated with her roommate Lucia for awakening every morning with a hairdryer
-MS has trouble making friends at school as cliques have already formed and she has trouble overcoming the significant language barrier
-MS gains attention from her peers through her excellence in maths and her caricatures of her teachers.
-After time MS becomes part of a group consisting of Momo, Thierry, Olivier and Julie.
-As Christmas approaches all her friends go away on holidays and she is left alone.
-Lucia invites her to Tyrol (southwest Austria) for Christmas with her family
-MS finds Lucia’s family very strange
-They all attend midnight mass which runs into early morning
-Lucia’s family has many questions for MS about her life in Iran but doesn’t touch on the war.
-MS considers Lucia’s family her family while away from Iran.
Prompt 1: MS feels uncomfortable around many of her peers because of the way they question her about her life in Iran but knows that she must adapt and make friends if she is to enjoy her time in Vienna.
Panels 2-3 of page 12 (Book 2)
Prompt 2: MS is angry with Lucia for using the hairdryer every morning and waking her up but chooses not to confront Lucia about it and stop the issue. This benefits MS later as she discovers Lucia and her family are caring people and manages to end the hairdryer issue without attacking Lucia.
Panel 5 on page 10 (Book 2)
P.286, THE MAKEUP, Keira
ReplyDelete-Reza and Marjane a real couple now.
-Reza and Marjane picked on each other. She said how he wasn't active enough and he picked on her characteristics.
-Marjane starts to wear makeup to impress Reza.
-She’d be taken away if the Guardians of the Revolution saw her with make up on.
-Accused a man of saying something indecent towards her so they wouldn't take her.
-They’d torture the innocent man as the guards believe he broke a rule.
-Young couples in public were taking big risks. If married then no problem just have to have a copy of the marriage certificate.
-Religious moral codes.
-Grandma upset at the fact of Marjane got an innocent man arrested after what happen to Anoosh and Marjane’s grandfather.
Prompt 1: Battle between know/feel: In this chapter she knew it was wrong to accuse the innocent man of saying indecent things towards her but felt the need to do so to save herself from the guards.
Panel 7 pg.131 (second book).
Prompt 3: Conflict with self: In this chapter she decided to accuse the man but feels bad afterwards and not knowing what would happen to him as it was her fault. He begs her to tell the guards that he did nothing wrong and to let him go but no response from her. Marjane thought it was funny so she told her grandmother about it thinking she’d laugh too, but then her grandma yells at her for doing the wrong thing as innocent imprisonment had happen in their family.
Panel 7 pg.132, Panel 6 pg.137 (second book)
Pg 314, THE WEDDING, Cam
ReplyDelete• It was hard for Marjane and Reza to be together outside of marriage
• Reza asks Marjane to marry him
• Marjane announces to her father that she is going to get married
• Marjane’s father takes Marjane and Reza out to dinner to talk about marriage
• Marjane tells her mother she is getting married and Ms. Satrapi doesn’t approve over the phone
• A few weeks later Marjane meets her mother and she is fine with the weeding and wants to organise everything
• Marjane wants a small weeding but 400 people are invited, 2 bands, a video crew and flowers
• Marjanes walks to the bathroom to find her mother crying beacause she wants Marjane to leave Iran and and to be free
• Marjane always knew that the marriage wasn’t going to work out but after her love story in Vienna she needed to believe in someone again
• After one month of being married they set up different bedrooms, when they were out they acted as they marriage was fine but when they were alone they had dailey fights and arguments
Promt 1 The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
(pg 157) Marjane father knew her marriage wasn’t going to work out after her last love story in Vienna he wanted to her to realize it herself. Marjane also never really thought the marriage would last.
Prompt 3 The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self.
(pg 163) Marjanes mother lets marjane get married but she doesn’t really want her to because she wants marjane to be free and leave Iran.
ENGLISH THE PERSEPOLIS THE EXAM PAGE 122 (2ND PART SEPARATE BOOK) or page 278 FURKAN KILIC 14/7/2013
ReplyDelete• MS is invited to a party where she meets Reza, who she is attracted to
• Reza was a soldier who fought against IRAQ
• The differences between MS and Reza
• Both planning to move overseas
• In order to go overseas you must pass a National Exam
• Both passed Exam
• MS must also pass the Ideological test
• MS studies Arabic history and religion
• MS knows it’s impossible for her to learns Arabic
• MS honesty gets her to pass the Ideological test
PROMPT QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE EXAM-
“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional”
Panel 1 on page 126- panel 5 on page 26 / page 282
MS and Reza decide to leave the country in order to live somewhere else. Reza has already been in the war and now decides that he doesn’t want to be involved in it again because he is sick of IRAN. Reza being a war fighter didn’t have a choice to whether or not to go to war because once you are picked you must go. Now he has a choice to leave Iran or stay depending on if he wants to fight again (combat)
“The worst battle that you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel”
Panel 2 on page 130- Panel 3 on page 130/286
MS has to be honest and more likely tell her own opinions on the way that she talks to God. She feels as if she needs to do it the expected way which is to pray, but she tells how she really communicates with god to Mullah. She also knows that she must wear the veil but says to Mullah that “If women’s hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald”