David's Persepolis Blog Week Seven: Feedback

I commented on Harroop and Anna's blog this week and I told them that I liked the way they looked at the comparison between Canada and Iran.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Seven: Snippets

For this week, I have a snippet from page 286. I was fascinated by how Marjane was able to get a random man arrested for doing nothing. I believe that this snippets proves how smart Marjane really is and how her intelligence has grown throughout the book. A theme that could be illuminated is that intelligence can be underestimated.

Richard: Week 6 Feedback

A feedback i got back from social studies would be the fact and belief chart. I believed i did quite well on this, compared to the other assignment. The comment on this assignment was a good skill of identifying fact and belief. However, the conclusion was not very consistent. Scored a 70%, which was quite satisfying. An improvement would be give a short conclusion that linked to the facts and believes in the paper, instead of putting something not so relevant to the assignment.

Richard: Week 6 Class Act

For Week 6 of Persepolis, there wasn't much Class Act in English class due to:
Social Assignment
Easter Monday
However on Thursday, we did some snippets. One of my favourite snippet from the class was Kevin's. He stated on the cover of the book, where the Ebi, the dad, was looking at her mom, her mom was looking at grandma, grandma looking at young marjane, Marjane looking at Anoosh, and Anoosh looks at the head of the mature Marjane. There is seemed to have links between Anoosh and Marjane more than just family relations. An examples would be, Anoosh escaped Iran for a long time, and Marjane went to Vienna. Could this be a coincident or fate?

Richard Week 6 Snippet

There is an interesting picture in page 219. Marjane was displayed as the portrait of Dorian Gray. According to the story, Basil Hallward drew a very handsome picture named Dorian Gray. The portrait started to look more demonic as Dorian started to commit more sins. This panel will be the allusion to Dorian Gray. the panels had shown that Marjane's face was slowly consumed by darkness, similar to Dorian Gray's portrait. However, Marjane did not commit any sins. As her face was the only body part that was shown in the panel, she was disembodied. since she was in Vienna, she was an outsider to everyone else. As time goes by, she even feel that herself is an outsider.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Six: Feedback

For week six, I commented on Denitza's blog post. She was doing the Class Act section and I told her that she should cut down on the information and that I liked the reference to 1984.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Six: Literary Feature Hunt

For this week, I was able to find a literary feature on page 278 which invovled a mottif. The mottif that I was able to discover was love. Reza and Marjane meet for the first time and they hit it off right away. The reason why the literary feature is love is because previously in the graphic novel, love was shared between Marjane and others. The theme that could be used to describe this mottif is experiences make a person stronger.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Six: Class Act

I was very impressed with the discussions that were brought up this week. One that sticks out in my mind is on pages 250 and 251. Looking at how the two pages were similar and defining beauty.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Five: Feedback

For this week I commented on Megan's blog post and I I liked the way she was able to relate Persepolis to something she watched. I also said that she did a good job of looking at new ideas that have not been discussed in class.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Five: Snippets

On page 318, I thought that Marjane Satrapi did an excellent job of looking at two perspectives. In some ways, I feel that the panels can be considered as parodoxes because both women are married, but one agrees with everything her husband says while the other does not want to do that. Two examples that I saw that were similar to this snippet were on pages 104 and 193. It could be stated that those pages are more similar than page 318 because there is usage of telephones. The only difference between the two is that one has a black background with people mourning and the other has Marjane talking to her parents with a white background signifying happiness.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Four: Class Act

Today 's class was quite informative as I was able to understand a new concept. When Mr McGuigan was discussing how we see if a snippet is relavant, I learned that it is important to look and see if the idea or picture is reoccuring.

David's Persepolis Blog Week 3: Class Act

This week was a very interesting class, but most of the discussion was on page 181. The people that were deeply involved in the discussion were Fion and Geneva. One comment that Fion had about the page that interested me was how she recognized that Marji was starting to get bored as Armelle continued to talk about Bakunin. Geneva, then added that the last panel was a day dream that Marji was having. I thought that this discussion had ideas that made a lot of sense.

David's Persepolis Blog Week 3: Literary Feature Hunt

For week three, the literary feature that I was able to discover is on page 189. The first panel on the page has the Hulk as Satrapi explains her growth. The literary feature in this panel is hyperbole. The reason why this is the literary feature for this panel is because Satrapi is exaggerating about her growth spurt. Also, the panel shows how Hollywood has effected this book because there is a reference to a movie and there have been actions by Satrapi that want the reader to related to such as sex and smoking.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Three: Feedback

For feeback this week, I commented on the blogs of Rushil and Inder. For Rushil's post, I told him that he needs watch out for the spelling mistakes, sign his posts, and say which section he is writing about. For Inder's post I said that did a good job of relating a part of Persepolis with 1984, but I also told him that he needs to expand on the idea. He also needs to sign his blog posts.

David's Persepolis Blog Week 3: Snippets

Through the drawing that I created, I have discovered that eyebrows are very important in expressing feelings in Persepolis. This drawing was a scene from Twelfth Night where Malvolio dresses up in the yellow leggings and wears a kilt. I chose this scene from Twelfth Night because I consider it the most comical part of the play. I tried to make sure that the panel transitions were meaningful and effective. Also, I tried to make the audience looking at the picture to understand the words say, just like Satrapi does with her writing. The way I this was by making Olivia's shirt lose a flower in every panel. The color also played a big effect into my comic as it was black and white, just like Satrapi's style. Finally, the eyebrows. The eyebrows play a key part in how Satrapi explains how the characters feel in Persepolis and that is why I chose to make the eyebrows thick. Overall, I have learned that the words spoken in Persepolis have no meaning unless the pictures are understood.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Two: Literary Feature Hunt

From pages 50 to 103, there have been a lot of literary features that I have spotted; however, the one that really caught my eye was from page 102. The picture has children falling from the sky with key necklaces around their necks. I think that Satrapi is trying to create a sense of allusion throught this picture. The reason why I feel this is because the children are dying with the belief that if they wear the keys, they will end up in heaven. Also, the faces of the children are covered and this means that the children can be relatable

Richard: Persepolis Feedback: Week 2

This week in socials studies class, we got our DP mock internal assessments back. I wasn't quite satified with my mark since i only got a 4? in the paper. The problems were my tenses and grammar, these things frustrates me all the time...

A feedback from the points raised by Aaron and Inder's blog was the veil of opression. It said that everyone was forced to wear a veil. It's a sign like 1984, as stated in their blog. Veils were a symbol of respect in Iran, and to show all women are the same. Somehow links to The Giver, where Jonas was the giver and he can see everything that others cannot such as color. Marjane travelled to Europe, as an inferred way of expanding her knowledge and understanding.

Richard: Persepolis Literary Feature Hunt: Week 2

The literary feature for this week would be Aside. The literal meaning of this feature is: thinking out loud. In graphic novels, all thoughts and speeches can be only seen by the viewer and the author itself, Persepolis was not excluded. Whenever someone was thinking about something, whether good or bad, criticism or not, only us, the readers, and the author can understand and know it. A good panel would be in Pg. 9, where Marji lied to her parents of becoming a doctor instead of a prophet. Readers and Marjane Satrapi herself were the only ones that know what is happening.

Richard: Persepolis Snippets: Week 2

On page 96-97, where Marjane and the rest of her classmates were at an assembly at the first few days of school, they have to pound their hearts to show discipline. This part reminds me of "Two-minute of Hate" from 1984, where everyone makes a symbol when goldstein is on the TV. It might not be directly linked to 1984, but after a few panels, where Marjane describe the types 0f pounding their hearts, Marjane shows foolishness and disrespectfulness towards the religion and the Martyrs. It's like a kind of rebellion like 1984, where in school, all people have to follow the school rule, disciplined and obediant. Marji began to act foolish to make fun of the martyrs, religion, and all the activities the teacher had given. Just like Winston, she wants to escape from rules and act like a rebellion, only not the "impact" type, more like a foolish type.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Two: Feedback

I was looking at Gabe and Denitza's blog and I was fascinated by the way that they have looked deep at the pictures and seeing how they explain the words. The layout of the blog is also very appealing to the eye as they have adding a lot of pictures to the blog that realte to the novel.

David's Persepolis Blog Week 2: Snippets

On page 102, Satrapi tries to explain the idea that children we so easily captivated by false ideas. The children wear keys on their necks because they believe that if they go to war and die, the key would get them into heaven. The panel shows how the children die in explosions. The panel perfects this as the children are being stabbed by the black marks. The picture relates to the theme of power is control as the children feel like they have power to where they end up in the after life.

David's Persepolis Blog Week Two: Class Act

I was very impressed with the discussions that were brought up in the groups on Monday. The first group that I was in had Geneva, Rushil, and Manny. Our question was about if Satrapi did a good job at the art of storytelling. As a group we had a lot of ideas that came from our discussion. In the second group, we discussed all the questions that were presented in the sylabus. This group consisted of Megan, Gabe, Fion, and Evan. We mostly talked about Megan's question which was about how Satrapi presented Marji to be.

Richard: Persepolis Snippets: Week 1

I read the persepolis up to Pg. 267 (maybe a wow?!). One snippet would be on Pg. 173, where marjane was talking to Momo. When momo was telling Marjane to relax and cultivate yourself, Marjane had a thinking bubble and it says, "Asshole" and she's smiling. This part kind of confuses me since she said Asshole, what is she getting mad about? Shouldn't she have a serious look rather than a goofy smiling look? Could it be she was hiding her point of view about Bakunin behind her mind?

Richard: Persepolis Literary Feature Hunt: Week 1

The literary feature for Satrapi's Persepolis would be Omniscient point of view. Since Persepolis is a graphic novel based on her past life and experiences, known as a memoir, she knows all that is in the book. An example would be on Pg. 8, where she speaks to god, god told her that she is "the last and the best choice." Also, on pg. 9, she was displayed as justice, love and the wrath of god. All the point of view were based from the book or from satrapi herself.

Richard: Persepolis Feedback: Week 1

On Wednesday, I provided a "supporting" opinion on one of my peer's snippet. It was on Page 6, where Marjane posted herself as the last prophet, with a Sun surrounding her head. Beside that panel, two little panels were showing the previous prophets. One of the panels said "A Women?" That panel reminds me of the minority of females and children in the Medival times.

A comment from Mr. Mcguigan would be my previous 1984 presentation. He gave me an above middle mark. I felt really beat up by it. I didn't calculate time for presentation as i thought my presentation was shorter than the meeting time. Mr. Mcguigan said that i should think about what i should be talking about instead of speaking without thinking. The next assignment i will use this comment as a reflection.

Richard: Persepolis Blog Class Act: Week 1

On Thursday, Miss Brownrigg had gave our class a presentation. The most interesting part of this persentation is the part about types of panel switches. By farout, the non-sequitur was the one that stands out to me the most. Here's a question: Does anyone know one comic that has non-sequitur panel switch. An example would be excellent to improve my understanding for this term.

David's Persepolis Blog: Week One- Literary Feature Hunt

The guest speaker that came this week to teach us about comics, helped me to recognize key literary features to look at when reading a graphic novel. The literary features she said were the reader, narrator, juxtaposition, protagonist or antagonist, metaphor, and symbol. From the information the guest speaker spoke about and my knowledge about literary features in novels, I feel that I will be able to identify them.

David's Persepolis Blog: Week One- Feedback

I did not have any snippets this week, but I was listening very attentively to my fellow classmates as they spoke. One snippet discussion that really caught me was the one the Fion brought up about Marji wanting to be a prophet on page 6. The idea that she is the light in all the darkness. I thought that when the guest speaker came and Mr. McGuigan brought up the painting by Pablo Picasso to relate to the anger of the woman chopping the food was a interesting connection. The connection focused on different perspectives. I was impressed with Geneva and Kevin's Blog as they focused on the king of Iran before 1979 which was The Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi; however i think they should focus on the literary features that are in the novel more. On Vishal and Megan's blog, I think that they need to look at the four topics that need to be discussed in the blog instead of making the blog look fancy.

David's Persepolis Blog: Week One- Snippets

For the snippets, I would like to discuss the torture on page 51. I believe that Satrapi chose to make the torture the focus on the page as it is the largest section. Another snippet that I have is on page 70. In this part of the graphic novel, God is told by Marji to get out of her life. This part of the book really scared me and made me sad because so far in the novel, Marji and God have been very close. So, I feel that this decision by Marji was bad one that will result in her falling back to him. The final snippet that I have for this week is on page 71. This picture created my Satrapi is perfect for representing the words said by the narrator. The narrator says, " And so I was lost, without bearings...". These words relate to the picture because Marji is in the middle of space in the picture and she doesn't know what to do even though here home is being bombed she doesn't recognize it. The book brings up so many ideas and I want to learn about them.

David's Persepolis Blog: Week One- Class Act

During today's class, I thought that there was some very good snippets. I thought that the discussion that Geneva and Gabe had about Fion's snippets was very intriguing as it was almost like a debate. The snippet was from page 6 and the panel that had Marjane's look like a sun. This discussion left me with a deeper understanding of why Marjane Satrapi drew the pictures the way she did. Also, I was really confused about how to set up the blog and wiki.

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