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.