Persepolis Q's

a) From the book, "Persepolis," Discuss a page or frame that you find especially powerful. Describe the scene and explain to the best of yourability how and why this scene speaks to you.

Pages 150-151 weren’t necessarily the most powerful but it was the most insightful. Persepolis left us with an open ended ending leaving us with different images and thought provoking understanding. But to continue on about the ending with her grandmother, it was really a culmination of everything she stood for to become finally rooted deep enough for her to feel content for who she was and where she truly belonged to. As Marjane's mother was her support for emotional and physical needs, her grandmother was the support for her intellect and spirit. These Frames helps us to understand that and how the grandmother was even more than just support it was her role to pass on the culture, art, and history to Marjane. The ending showed a mutual fulfillment in that her grandmother was able to leave Marjane without feeling empty and the same with Marjane. This helped me to understand the gap between a child and an adult and their style of communication in a different country and how similar we all are even though we live in completely different places.

B) Compare your experience of reading the book and watching the film. Ifyou were the filmmaker, what scenes would you choose to magnify or omit and why?

Of course watching the film influenced the emotions and even gave an adrenaline rush at certain points but above all the film gave us more of an attachment to what was actually going on rather than reading, where we tend to give a moment to think allowing time to interfere with intuitive judgment. What I mean by that is if we are in a situation where we have to think on the spot that is our subconscious mind telling us what we believe what we stand for but reading gives us more time to analyze what we just comprehended but the difference is that our subconscious mind telling us what we believe in allows for us to analyze ourselves. Everything that I would magnify/make emphasis on, such as the party situation where boys are in the appartment and their running from the police, was already done.