Ya, I did my homework on a Friday night...WHAT?!?

1.) I think Marjane Satrapi chose the comic book style to produce her memoir because it represented the youthful age she wanted associated with the story. But also how at that age, she went through some of the most defining moments in her life. We usually associate comics with children or youth, and comedy. But for Satrapi’s comic memoir she showed a very dark time for her and her country.

              a.)With the comic book style format Satrapi is able to show simple visuals that go along with the text. Although the visuals are simple they have enormous influence on the images the reader creates when they look at the book. In other words, less is more. The images that go along with the text have big affect and leave room for an even larger and real idea the reader will most likely take on. At one point in the story it says “In the end he was cut to pieces”(52) and shows a picture of a man disconnected from his legs, arms, head and torso. But the picture is not bloody or gory and the man doesn’t seem to really be died. But as a reader you know that the real image is far more disturbing. For this story I don’t think just plan text would have been so successful and that it was more powerful as a comic. The combination of the text and images give you a better idea of what the young Satrapi went through.

2.) If I could write a memoir of my life up until right now I think it would be on a stage. Most likely a dance of some kind with music, lights and speech, but not written dialogue, just sounds that people create (e.g. screaming, slapping, breathing, jumping etc.). But not some kind of flashy musical.  I would choice this because for me things on the stage are more real. With reading you are able to create your own idea of what something looks life and connect it better to yourself, change it in some way. With the stage its so much more alive. At that moment the stage is creating an emotion or visual right in-front of your face, and you can’t change it. You have to become apart of it, almost like you really are in that moment created. I’m not saying my life has been so dramatic, but I would personally rather see some kind of show then read a book.