persepolis blog one

question 2: I believe that the book is alot more powerful told just as it happened versus being fictionalized. Putting fiction into it could have made it more interesting or longer or more dramatic, but the reader doesn't really get the full effect. Hearing or reading a real story how it happened is much more interesting than reading something where all the interesting stuff just gets thrown in. Another memoir type thing that i've read is the things they carried. although both stories are about different things, the dramatic aspect of it ties them together. a benefit of memoirs is that you get the story exactly how it happened. nothing is sugar coated or thrown in for good measure. with memoirs, one actually gets a sense of what it feels like to be going through whatever the author went through. they're much more powerful than just a story. a drawback is maybe what the author is writing about isn't too interesting. i actually don't know any drawbacks of memoirs hahah.

question 9: the kids did this by purchasing their "hip" items in an underground black market type thing. they kept it a secret from the government so that they would at least try and have a little bit of freedom in the sense that they can be the kind of person they want to be. they did this by wearing and buying what they wanted. If i was a child in this environment, i would have done the same exact thing. I wouldn't want to be like everyone else, i'd want to be my own person. if someone tells me that i can't do something, i get the urge to do it. my rebellious acts pretty much just consisted of not listening to my parents. if they tell me not to do something, i usually do it. if they tell me they don't like the way i did something, i do it the same way next time. Satrapi is like a normal kid because of her rellious nature. that's something that the government wasn't able to take away from her.

question 5: i find the writer's voice very appealing. once i starting reading it, it was really hard for me to put it down. one of the things that i like the most about marji's character was her rebellious nature. i also like how even as a child, she had a sense of what was going on. she knew that the things that were going on were dangerous, and she had a sense of why it was all happening. I also liked the fact that even though her parents sometimes disagreed with her views on certain things, she still kept her stand and fought for what she believed in. there's nothing about her that i didn't really like. my reaction to her might have effected my reading experience a little bit. i think i went into the book having a little more respect for what she went through.