1) Why do you think that Marjane Satrapi chose the comics style to produce her memoir?
a) What is she able to do in this format that she wouldn’t be able to do in other formats? For instance, does this format enable her to make certain events, emotions, or moments to stick out in the reader’s mind in ways that other formats wouldn’t succeed?
2) If you were to write a memoir of your life until the present, which one would you choose? Why? Pretend that you could use any format, e.g. painting, collage, a film, a song, a comic book, etc.
[For those of you who don’t know, e.g. is an acronym for exempli gratia. It’s Latin for example given, or for example. I’m just telling you because it’s a good thing to know.]
I encourage you to cite, reference, and quote parts of the book in order to support your responses. Please be sure to use quotation marks and to cite the page number in parenthesis.
Here’s a question that we’ll discuss on Monday:
Marjane situates her story within the context of numerous events in her personal life and the life of her country, like the Islamic Revolution.
If you were to create a memoir of your life, what events public and personal (not too personal) would be important? Why?
[If you want to take a stab at answering this question on the blog, then feel free. I’m not, however, going to require you to do so. Just be sure to answer question 1, 1a, and 2 by class time.]
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Also, here's a part of the story that I think the film captures really nicely:
Oh, and just for kicks, here's the video from the band who originally wrote the song: SURVIVOR
2 comments:
1.I feel Marjane choose to do comic format because she want to maker her reader fill the emotion and show the visual of what she went threw in picture. With this format, reader were able to eazy feel what was going on in the story,it is more relateable and eazier to read. Then a boring normal book format.She want to try to reach out to all ages of readers.
2.I would also with in comic strip format. Because I do like writing boring format paper. In comic strip it eazy to get a better understand of the author's story with visual.
Yes, I agree that she's able to make the reader feel the emotions that she felt when she was a child in an interesting manner. I found this format to be really easy and fun to read as well.
Are there any specific events/moments in the story that stuck out in your mind? For instance, the events happening in her home life, or the events happening in the life of all Iranians? Why?
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