Dear Class,
For your new blog post, read through the Reading Lolita and Persepolis excerpts. Both works address the changes that were brought about in Iran by the Islamic Revolution. What specific strategies do the works use to explore their themes?
Also, I will be distributing your article for 10/8 in class on Tuesday. There will be some changes to the calendar, so stay tuned!
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They specifically use young woman/girls who seem to have suffered the most from the revolution. And the seemingly bad situation they live with is described through their daily activities. For instance, girls couldn't enter the university through the green gates and the daily ritual girls have to go through to ensure themselves they'll get to their destination without hassle.
ReplyDeleteIn the percipolis excerpt we see the world through the little girls eyes. Both through visual aides of the comic and also through her lifestyle in and out of her home. In Reading of Lolita, we are asked to use our umaginations, as we are show through details of what goes into the rituals of tranforming between home attire and public attire, attitudes, and cultural expectations. Inside the home the girls can be individuals, showing their faces, individualized attire, and personalities. Whereas when a girl wants to go outside, how she must cover up any sign of her personalality and transform into a non discript no face person, covering every bit of herself that would draw any attention to her. Always head down. No identity of individuality essentially.
ReplyDeleteIn the excerpt from Percipolis, we see many strategies used in order to show the reaction to the Islamic Revolution. One strategy is the use of a narrative. We see the reaction of the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of the author, and how she felt about being tied down by such drastic changes. We also see the use of storytelling in the Lolita excerpt. The author strictly talks about an encounter with a young woman to show the views of Islamic women of the time. In both articles, they show the struggle and harsh treatment women in Iran had to face daily with the revolution. By using personal accounts, we are able to throw all stereotypes and generalizations away and focus on real-life accounts.
ReplyDeleteIn both the articles, emotional appeal is used to show the plight of women during the Revolution. Persepolis shows the innocence of childhood, and Lolita uses the rebellious nature of college women who want more. The women in these articles lived in the time where they knew their past freedoms, but are now tied down by what the Revolution has caused. Persepolis uses its pictures to express the plight of this confused child. Lolita uses vivid storytelling to express the doubt of those women.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these works use girls/ women to get their point across. They both bring in the veil. They say that when the Islamic Revolution came into play that they were all forced to wear the veil. In Persepolis, the little girl didnt understand why she had to wear the veil and in Loita, it just talks about what happens when they dont wear the veil, but in Loita they use college women instead of young children. and is shows that college women tend to be more rebillious where as kids just do as they say.
ReplyDeleteA theme in both articles is that the story comes from the perspective of a woman and little girls. Children are seen as innocent, so their opinions aren’t biased towards one cause, since most of the time they don’t even understand the situations. For example, in Persepolis, Marjane retells her story as she saw it when she was a little kid. Even though she was above average from the rest of her classmates, she is still a symbol of Israel women who are constantly being discriminated against. The veil is just one of many examples of how women must be “protected” against their own wishes.
ReplyDeleteIn both of these articles, females are used to tell the story. Ethos is also used in both articles, and there is an emotional connection drawn from the characters. As readers, it is easy to empathize with the girls as they live their daily lives. Because of the Islamic revolution, every female had to endur numerous hardships.
ReplyDeleteIn Lolita, the specific strategy that is used is first person and explicit details. The author describes every moment and how every action the girl took there was some form of segregation. Persepolis starts with a history then develops a comic strip that adds a comedic touch to a serious subject. These are ways in which they express their theme of segregation and discrimination through female character.
ReplyDeleteIn Reading Lolita, Azar Nafsi uses a very unique strategy. The author questions the reader constantly in order to put us in the shoes of one of these oppressed young women. And it works because I felt helpless like the way Sanaz felt. In Persepolis the author used her real life story to get the point across. She was able to show us real emotions, and how her dreams were looked down upon by everyone around her due to the Islamic Revolution. This type of narrative gives the author more credibility because she knows exactly what she is talking about.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these readings provide a vivid image of how the young girls felt during the Islamic revolution. In Lolita and in the Persepolis article they use the veil as a theme for change and revolution. Although they did not agree in converting to the strict rules and religion, they still were forced to wear the veil regardless. I noticed that in the two articles neither girl wore the veil with pride. In the Persepolis article the little girl did not want to be seen in the class photo and was overall confused on what she should feel towards the veil. She didn't know if she should be against it becasue of her mother or for it because of her religiion. And in Lolita it says,"it is in her best interest not to be seen, not to be heard or noticed"(27). This was because they were not free to be who they wanted to be when they were forced to wear the veil.
ReplyDeleteBoth articles tell of how iranian women's lives were during the islamic revolution. the strategies that persepolis uses is the use of the first person. it shows the first person story of a young iranian woman and what they went through. The Lolita articles uses examples of other women and not the first person to show how the iranian women act and how they are enforced and looked at in their country during the revolution
ReplyDeleteIn both the readings the author used female characters to get the point across. They both suffured from the Islamic revolution because the characters both go through drastic changes, and were forced to follow a religion and wear certain garments or practice certain things. The women in both readings suffer because women were treated unequally because of their gender, they were often frowned upon, and discriminated.
ReplyDeleteBoth works are written as a narrative talking about two girls' lives and how they struggled during hard times in Iran. In the Persepolis excerpt, the author's life is expressed in a comic. The other is expressed through a standard written passage. Each article is addressing the issues the girls faced while being forced to cover their faces with a veil. We get a strong sense of disdain toward the idea of covering the face from each personal account.
ReplyDeleteIn these two articles you feel the effects of emothional suffering through a series of pictures about a little girl and the other a perpspective from the first person form. By using these techniques the author can make the relationship with the reader much more intamite. By appealing to the readers emotion the reader feels the injustices thru eyes of the those telling the story.
ReplyDeletePersepolis' comic style sets an easy tone while exploring sensitive issues. This way, the narrative informs the reader of Iranian history and life while breaking down any preconceived notions the reader might have of Iranians. The author uses exaggerations of characters' physical features and actions in order to convey personality and information within a simple artistic scheme and with relatively little text, (children playing in the school, portrayal of the Islamic revolution).
ReplyDeleteReading Lolita explores the theme of female suppression in the rigid fundamentalist society, as well the free-thinking rebelliousness the the women possess in response. By delving into the mind of Sanaz, and through a conversation between Sanaz and Yassi, the author depicts the girls' silent sentiment toward not being able to express themselves.
Both works use women and their emotional experiences during the Islamic Revolution to explore themes and narrate stories of this time. In both works, the author focuses on the encounters of one particular girl or woman. Both talk about women being forced to wear veils and how this is a sign of captivity and bondage. In Reading Lolita, the author uses a more sentimental approach to appeal to the readers, especially to women, in order to show how women were unequally treated with men and how they were all made to be ordinary and invisible. In Persepolis, we see a lighter approach in the narration of the comic, but we also see how a girl is discriminated for her goal of being a prophet. Both works show women's rights being denied and men being treated with more importance because of the Revolution.
ReplyDeleteBoth Reading Lolita M Tehran and Persepolis address the changes that occured because of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, but the strategies that each work utilizes to get the point across differ significantly and because of this there is a different sense that each work creates. Reading Lolita used a very serious tone and described events to the reader with an alomost sarcastic tone. For example, when the author was describing the past times that she had with Yassi, the youngest girl, she was describing how the two girls adopted an attitude that rendered all of the control that authority had over them useless. She chose specific words and a tone in order to create a thought in the reader that makes the girls seem powerful. Persepolis, on the other hand, used much less serious methods to get the point across and did this by using short sentences, simple ideas, and very simple words. The comic seems as if it was meant to teach a child the main point, but at the same time it seems as if it was put together like this so that the reader would be able to see how simple the whole revolution was, and how much damage one man can cause to so many people.
ReplyDeleteIn Reading Lolita, the author has to appeal to our imagination to impress upon us how it is for women in Iran. She describes, in minute detail, the experiences of the girls and constantly posing questions to the reader to force us to guess how they react. Because even the smallest rebellion is liable to be punished, the author emphasizes each little action and focuses on the emotional state of the women in Iran as she assumes them to be.
ReplyDeleteIn The Viel, Marjane Satrapi is describing her experiences as a girl in the midst of post-revolution conflicts in Iran. She uses the word captions to deliver her narrative and the pictures largely serve to illustrate what the words are saying. There are four panels with a portrait of a young Marjane accompanied by different accouterments that serve to explore the different identities put on her as a child (which provide a contrast to the one portrait of her mother).
The works use women and girls. Females in general have endure the worse after the revolution, so it is appropriate for a work that is trying to shed light on the inequality in this society. Young girls/children in general are considered non threatening. The average reader can pick up a copy of Persepolis without being afraid. Children are innocient and do not have the same viewpoints and an older person with experience. Youth will question the world more, and in turn inform the reader of that world.
ReplyDeleteBoth works have a strong use of narrating through the perspective of young women. In Reading Lolita in Tehran there are a lot of formal elements in reading; However in The Veil, the comic is used in a sense to show how the author, who was much younger when the revolution happened, treated the changes as being child-like or comical. Yet, in both works we get the same message, that the change in that country heavily affected way of life, especially for girls/women.
ReplyDeleteBoth authors employ color or references to color to highlight the specific themes of their works. For instance, Persepolis uses the contrast between dark and light to highlight the negative aspects of the revolution and Lolita refers to a girl's black robe and scarf as it covers her orange shirt and jeans, which acts as a real life representation of the oppression which women labored under.
ReplyDeleteEach of the excerpts use the similar theme of a girl who experiences segregation within the revolution. Also, each girl seems to have struggled from the effects of the revolution, and what is happening around them. Both also talk about the women being forced to wear veils, which stands for a symbol of captivity and/or bondage. The reader even feels the pain and suffering of the women due to the injustice that was thrown upon them.
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