Title of the text for analysis: Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 2000
Part of the course to which the task refers:
My critical response will (Objectives)
1. Show which is the role of social groups minorities and how they established as them.
2. The tools used by the author to show the marginalization of groups.
3. The tools used to marginalize social groups.
4. The inner reasons of the marginalization.
Essay
Persepolis, a graphic novel of the Islamic revolution in Iran, told from a children point of view, is the result of an autobiography. Persepolis, narrates the story of a little girl that in an innocent way, reacts at the presence of social …show more content…
For example when Marjane’s mother talks about the family that is crossing the street, dressing in a new way expressing a new adapting ideology. “Look at her! Last year she was wearing a miniskirt, showing off her beefy thighs to the whole neighborhood, and now Madame is wearing a chador. It suits her better, I guess.” Progressives are shown as Marjane parents, marginalized because of the violence that represents expressing with liberty. This group does not adapt to the situation although they have to be silenced in some occasions because of the violence. Children are brainwashed so they cannot express their own ideas so they result to be silenced …show more content…
“Because or maid didn’t eat with us” (Satrapi, 6) that’s how the little girl, Marjane, expresses about the situation within the social classes. The innocence of a kid is represented in the fragment and the nonsense fact of segregation of social classes is seen too. Social groups can be marginalized and silenced by the absence of money and social class power. Children from lower social class status went to war and died while rich kids celebrated their own parties. Social class segregation causes innocent deaths