Chapter 1 & 2
What is the title of either Chapter 1 or 2?
2 - The Bicycle
What is the title of either Chapter 3 or 4?
3 - The Water Cell
4 - Persepolis
What is the title of either Chapter 5 or 6?
5 - The Letter
6 - The Party
A panel.
What does PACFT stand for?
Purpose, Audience, Context, Form, Technique
What motif emerges when an official comes to explain to the students why they need to wear a veil?
Eyebrows.
What colour are the army associated with when they battle the protestors and why?
Black to show their negative allegiance to the state.
For whom does Marji write the letters?
For her maid, Mehri.
Which graphic novel technique allows the composer to craft a more dominant image by using more of the page?
Splash panel.
- Guide to content.
- Means to organise presentation.
- Method to allow for complexity and range in answer.
What school did Marji go to before the introduction of the veil?
A French school.
Why does Marji think God chose the King?
It was written on the first page of her schoolbook.
Why does Marji feel ashamed to ride in her father's Cadillac?
What is the name of a recurring visual symbol or element in a text, and what is one example from Persepolis?
A motif. Eyebrows, monochrome colour, magic realism, Iranian history.
What is Satrapi's authorial purpose and where can it be found?
She wishes to give an authentic voice to this period by presenting it from an Iranian perspective. The introduction.
What was the name of Marji's favourite book?
A. The Communist Manifesto
B. Das Kaptial
C. Dialectic Materialism
C. Dialectic Materialism
What is significant about Satrapi using a more abstract art style when Marji thinks about her Grandpa as a prince?
It evokes how she is still too young to really understand. Shows her childhood innocence.
How does Satrapi use visual imagery to foreshadow that the Shah's departure is not the end of the country's problems?
On p.43 she represents the border of the panel as a devil that is circling Marji and her parents.
What name is given to the technique that reveals a character's emotions, reactions, or physical state?
Emanata
Why might Satrapi's context have influenced her decision to use the graphic novel form?
She studied art at university. The visual medium better illustrates how she might have seen the world as a child.
What historical event ultimately causes Marji to end the chapter asking where God is?
The cinema fire that killed 400 people.
What is ironic about the people carrying the body of a martyr in Chapter 4?
What does Marji try to teach herself in the mirror at the end of the chapter?
To forgive others.
Although graphic novels tend to give more meaning to the responder through visual images, two techniques happen 'off' the page. What are they?
Bleed and gutter.
What issue arises from comparing Satrapi's stated purpose with the compositional context of the text?
Satrapi moved away from Iran, and was writing for a French audience in France in French.