Manny Week Six: Class Act and Snippets

Class Act

On April 16, 2008 we got a bundle of questions and quotations answered in class that day. The idea that I had contributed with the class is that, stealing music, movies, video games and other stuff is all illegal and we could get fined if we get caught, but we still do it because we want an adrenalin rush. People in real life and people in the book, Persepolis, do it too, so that they can feel alive. Later, Fion brought up an idea that you need guards or enforcers to enforce a law and without them, no one will be following the rules. Relating to this idea I brought up an idea that last year, the teachers told us to go outside at lunch and play. Most of us refused because this law was not enforced properly or that we did not feel like going outside. So this year, the teachers had enforced the idea of going outside at lunch and playing. With this “law” being enforced, most of us gave in and went outside to play, but then there were some of us who still refused to go outside and play.

Again, this relates to the previous statement that I had made in class about people wanting an adrenalin rush and also it some what relates to 1984 and how there were still some brave souls that had refused to go outside which is almost the same thing as Winston and Julia who had refused to listen to Big Brother and the Party.

Snippets 

Kevin: Was wondering about how everyone is looking at each other in a circle on the cover of the book. Something that really stood out is that Uncle Anoosh was the only person who was staring outside of the bubble and looking at bigger Marjane. This is like one of Aaron’s Blog posts where he is talking about, breaking the fourth wall. Mr. McG. had an idea that what if everyone in the bubble were foils to each other. Ex. Uncle Anoosh had to escape for a while, just like Marjane had to escape to Austria.

Denitza: Had an idea that the size of the panels represented time. Thin and short panels represent progression of time is fast while, big and wide panels represent progression of time is slow.

Words to Remember

Catharsis= When you see a tragedy happening to someone else, you feel better about yourself because your life is better.

Hubris= Excessive pride or defiance towards someone.

Manny Week Five: Feedback

For this week, I commented on one of Fion's blog post. I wrote that I totally agreed with her and I liked her idea about how more extreme laws, get more people to rebel against them. 

Georgia April15 2009 Snippets

Today, i had a rehearsal for my theatre troupe and we have a song that we use to get ready for a show and it just gives us that extra boost to get going. The song is "Eye of the Tiger". This seems to have no relevance to Persepolis but indeed it does! on page 275 she becomes an aerobics teacher and the stereo is playing "eye of the tiger". T thought that was a little humorous.
I had actually been looking at this snippet this week because you can tell that Satrapi used "Eye of the tiger" for a reason. on the last panel of page 273, you see Marjane wanting to live her life to the fullest.Then from there ,if you know the song "eye of the tiger" you can hear the build up in the song and in the graphic novel you can see her build up to becoming the person she wants to be.So, the song and the panels match up quite well.

Manny Week Five: Snippets

On page 257, in the last panel, Marjane is thinking about what her dad had said. As you can see in the panel Marjane is all alone in her bedroom and if you look at head, arms and legs you can see that she blends in with the background. This is the same thing that we were talking in class last week. Also, the bed blends with the surroundings and its surroundings is black. This symbolizes loneliness and Marjane is in a stage of loneliness right now.

Manny Week Five: Class Act

Today the weather was great outside so we decided to have class outside. The goal for today’s class was to first make questions about Persepolis. Once we had a decent amount of question we were asked to pick one question that struck to us the most and whoever else had the same questions were separated into one group. My group members were Inder, Harroop, Evan, and I and our question was “What changes occur as a result of Marjane’s journey?”

Manny Week Four: Feedback

For this week, I commented on one of Alice's Blog posts where she is talking about rebellions and comparing two panels and how similar they look. I wrote that I totally agree with her idea of rebellions being the same no matter what religion you are from and I also wrote that I was amazed when I saw that those to pictures were mostly similar.

Manny Week Four: Snippets

On page 196 in the last panel, in the text, it says "I saw red" and judging by Marjane's eyebrows and the steam coming out of her nose, she is angry as a bull. The reason being that bulls are the only animals that get angry by looking at the color red. This panel uses one of our examinable literature terms and that term is Metaphor. 

Also, looking at Marjane and the way the steam is formed, the steam covers her mouth. That means when you are angry, you have no control over what you are saying.

This panel is important because this is the last panel before a major turning point in the book. The major turning point is when Marjane yell at the girls at the booth saying that she is an Iranian and she is proud and she finally understands what her grandmother was saying.

Manny Week Four: Class Act

Today in class, Mr. MuGuigan was very pleased with all of us and how eager everybody was to make an input towards the class. Today we discussed how Satrapi makes Marjane wear a black shirt with a black background and what kind of effect it has. We also discussed how page 154 acts like a giant gutter for the book and what it means.

Manny Week Three:

Manny: Week Three Snippets

On Page 195, in the third panel, Marjane lies about her nationality and says that she is French instead of saying Iranian. In the next panel Marjane explains that she did not say Iranian because that is a war at the time. Also Iran was “the epitome of evil,” and to be Iranian was a heavy burden. So basically, this means that people will often change their nationality or whatever to just fit in with everybody else. In the last panel on that page, Marjane starts to remember what her grandmother had said to her about being true to herself and keeping her dignity, but she still doesn’t understand what that means.

 

On Page 197, in the first panel Marjane yells at the girls in the booth that she is Iranian and she is proud and then runs away. In the last panel on that page, Marjane realizes what her Grandmother had meant about being true to herself and keeping her dignity.

 

In order to understand some things in life, one must first undergo a certain experience in life to understand it.

Manny Week Two: Class Act

On March 5 the whole class was given an assignment to create a comic of your own and use the same type of drawing style as Satrapi used in Persepolis. I made a comic version of “Two road diverged in a yellow wood” by Robert Frost.

Georgia.Mar2-6.class act

this week had discussion groups and my group the involved Marjane being the "hero" of the story. the got talking about whether or not she was the hero or just the person everything is centered around. some thought she was the hero because she made all these changes in her life and they affected the people around her.also,she Had the same fears and hopes of the society around her. she was a representative of her society just like any other hero. i thought it was more that she was the person all these events were happening around and not that she was a hero. she did not make any move that helped her society. she even fled from the society she was in(Iran) so she could be safe. not very hero like in my opionion

Georgia-Mar.2-6.Snippets

I still have yet to figure out how to put certain pictures on this blog so i will figure that out soon.
in the mean time, this weeks snippets were pretty interesting.Manny already talked about one of my favorite snippets.Anyways here's one i liked and found pretty interesting.
On page 116,the entire page is taken up by one panel. This is significant because it shows how important that certain panels and how it has to stand out from the rest of the panels. The thing about this panel is that Marjane in the top left corner is walking down stairs and then in the bottom right is opening a door and leaving the panel and in the middle is a war scene.This panel is interesting because how Marjane knows that the war could have been avoided and millions of people could have survived. Its interesting that Marjane is using stairs instead of walk around the scene or some other way of avoiding it. When there is a big line up for the elevator or something people tend to take the stairs to avoid the pack up. Satrapi uses that in this panel.
sorry i could not pull the panel up onto the blog but we all have our own copies of Persepolis so go find it there :)

Manny: Week Two Snippets

On page 89, the panel with all the cars fleeing, it looks like a giant fire. If you don't look at the car's windows, it looks like the cars are driving in to the fire. This panel makes me believe that the people are driving themselves to their own doom!

Manny Week One: Class Act

On February 26,2009, Ms.Brownrigg came is as our guest speaker and gave us the knowledge that we need to know about graphic novels. She said the key terms that we need to know about visual art were: --perspective

-line

-shape

-texture

-style

-negative space

-synesthetics

One thing that you got to remember is that structure, layout and color=meaning. For Comics, the key terms were:

-Panel

*(Transitions)

--Gutter

-Closure

-Dealing with time

*(Expansion)

*(Compression)

-Negative Space

The Different types of transitions that Ms.Brownrigg showed us were:

-Moment to Moment

- Action to Action

-Subject to Subject

-Scene to Scene

-Aspect to Aspect

-Non-Sequitur

-Symbolic/Figurative

Georgia-Mar.2-6.Feedback

Hey everybody
so this is my first post and here we go!
This week we had a guest speaker come in and talk to us about graphic novels.Theres this quote that stuck with me:
"Storytelling using art in sequence is a historically old human tradition" this is something i agree with completely.From cavemen art on the walls to graphic novels like Persepolis, man(and woman) have had this instinct to express stories through art. It gives the story a whole new view. When reading a book, we imagine it in our on way but with graphic novels, we see the story how the author wants us to picture it.This way we get the true meaning of how the story is and the tone of the story that the author meant for it to have.This can ably to Persepolis because with the style of Satrapi's art we can understand how she wants people to see her life story. Even through a few panels on a page, Satrapi is able to convey her life and how she saw it. She uses a bubbly style of cartoon art that is a great contrast against the dark content and events that happen in her life.
so to conclude that, i thought that Persepolis is good evidence to support that quote because storytelling through art is an old human tradition and also instinct.
Thats the end of my first post and more will be coming this weekend!!

Manny: Week One Snippets

On page 6 in Persepolis, it shows Marjane being a prophet (third panel). She says that she wants to become a prophet. If you look around her head you can see that it resembles the Sun. The Sun is an important element to the human race and Earth. Therefore it shows that the importance of a prophet and the importance of religion. Just like everyone needs the Sun, everyone needs religion.

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