Characters
Themes
Plot
Structure of the Comic
Art to Emotions
100
Marjane moves into this friend's room and grows close to her mother.
Who is Julie?
100
This theme is seen in Marjane's argument with the nun at the boarding school.
What is Racism?
100
Marjane and Reza are invited to design this for the city of Tehran.
What is a theme park? Theme park based on Persian mythological figures?
100
This space assumes the immediate attention of the viewer.
What is the foreground?
100
Refer to Persepolis II, Page75. In the bottom-right panel, this is how Satrapi represents rapid typing and deep focus.
What are zig-zagging lines hovering over the type writer? What are several fingers, placed randomly, representing the motion of Markus writing.
200
Enrique, Marjane's first boyfriend did not consummate their relationship because of this.
What is homosexuality?
200
Marjane's close bond with her grandmother is an example of this theme.
What is Family relationships? Parent-Children relationships?
200
After failing to do this Marjane decides to change her life by giving herself new hobbies and a new look.
What is commit suicide? What is swallow all of her medication?
200
These are lines and borders that contain the panels.
What are frames?
200
Refer to Persepolis II, Page 61. In the top-left panel, this is how Satrapi represents feeling torn between her new, anarchist friends, school and living under Doctor Heller.
What is rope pulling Marjane in different directions?
300
Marji saw in him a connection to the war she escaped by moving to Austria. He saw in Marji a lightheartedness and appeal from an experienced, worldly woman.
Who is Reza?
300
Attending Julie's house party and witnessing public displays of affection is an example of this theme.
What is Loss of Innocence? Coming of Age/Bildungsroman?
300
Upon returning to Iran, Marjane discovered that most of the street names had been changed to these.
What are the names of dead soldiers? the names of war martyrs?
300
These are boxes containing a variety of text elements, including scene-setting, description and narrative.
What are captions?
300
Refer to Page 95, bottom left panel. This is how Satrapi represents Marjane in deep thought.
What is eyes downcast, a small frown with a hand on the chin.
400
On their first date, he and Marjane went to a club and afterwards he offered to take her home if she would pay for half of the gas cost.
Who is Markus?
400
Refer to Page 151. These panels represent this theme.
What is enforcement of religion? Staying true to one's identity/culture/values? Coming of age/bildungsroman?
400
Following this event, Marjane lived on the streets of Vienna for over one month.
What is the end of her relationship with Markus? What is discovering Markus cheating on her?
400
This kind of dialogue is a thought enclosed by a cloud-shaped balloon that has a series of dots or bubbles going up to it.
What is Internal dialogue?
400
Refer to Page 127, bottom panel. This is how Satrapi places the reader in the shoes of Marjane.
What is the placement of the hand in the foreground to recreate the moment when the drawing was created.
500
Marjane visited Kia, a childhood friend and war veteran. She left having learned: "we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once that limit is crossed, the only way to bear it is to __________.
What is to "laugh at it" ?
500
The reasons the Marji and Reza decided to get married relate to this theme.
What is the enforcement of religion? Survival? How society shapes one's identity?
500
These choices were proposed to political prisoners being held by the fundamentalist regime.
What is denounce revolutionary ideas and swear an oath to the governement OR be executed.
500
This term describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using colour and shading by use of light, colours or high contrast images.
What is graphic weight?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Refer to Page 40, bottom panel. How does Satrapi enhance the formation of Marji's dream?
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