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.

Persepolis week 1

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