This semester, we'll be trying to establish a class 'discourse' by creating a class blog. I'd like you to interact with each other and respond to each other's posts when appropriate.
Hopefully....it will be fun too.
First, I'll need to invite you to the blog.
Next, you'll have to log in through blogger.
After you've done this, your email address should appear in the top right corner of this page, along w/ the option to make a "new post."
When you've created a new post, click "publish post" and check to make sure it's up.
Make sure that you publish your posts.
Soo, I think Marjane Satrapi chose the comic book style for her memoir because one, the world in which she grew up in is foreign to all of us (oppressive government, religious schooling) or at least the majority of us, and when it is put into graphic novel form it helps me at least to understand it a bit more than if it was just text. The depiction of each situation (school life, family life, encounters with friends and family and witnessing demonstrations) puts her thoughts in context and makes everything more comprehensible. I wouldn't necessarily have understood why she wanted to be a prophet but the reasoning behind it in combination with the picture of her confused as a child (why doesn't our maid eat with us, and why does my father drive a cadillac?) makes more sense. The subject matter we're reading about becomes more relatable through graphic novel form. Her experiences of growing up in revolutionary Iran and grappling with morality vs. what she's taught in school vs. what her parents have taught her are unique and this is a very different approach to learning about communism and government in Iran because we're learning history through a literary context. Communism was always this far away thing, and we have such a monolithic view of it, as well as fundamentalism. It's somewhere far off, I wouldn't have understood how much it affected everyone and on different levels if it weren't for memoirs and diaries and things of that nature....
ReplyDeleteI think Marjane Strapi choose the comic book style to gave the viewer's attention. It won't be boring because it's in a comic format and it's straight forward. Plus you are seeing it from a child's perspective so it won't be all worded than it would be boring.
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