Ryan Boden

First Year Seminar

1/24/12

Blogger Post #1

I felt that Marjane Satrapi began Persepolis the way she did because it suggested to the reader that her and her family’s story was no different than many of her fellow countrymen. It begins by showing her alone and then shows a frame of children that look almost identical to her. I believe that this was presented this way to express that times were hard for everyone. Many of the people on the first page look like copies of one another , I believe, to create a sense that all of these people suffer under the same set of hardships.

If I were to write a memoir recollecting my past, I would start it by taking a scenario from the present that well represents my character and from there bring the reader back and tell my story from its beginning. I would do this because I think it is important to establish a point of reference in the beginning  of a story that sets up the reader for their journey. I would do this so my transformation over the years would seem more drastic.