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 :)
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In the discussions that we had in class about this topic/panel was also that Satrapi was showing freedom from her childhood's perspective, because she cames from the stairs above (heaven?) and leaves the panel through a door, which in the next page shows that the door leads to adulthood. But as for just the panel on pg.116, I think that the door represents and forshadows how Marjane is leaving Iran and the war for some other place. Thats why it is dark from the inside of that door when she opens it...because she did not know where she was going to end up.
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