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.

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 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 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.