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Essential Question: 4: Beliefs
This technique demonstrates the essential question about beliefs as she is questioning her belief in God because Anoosh has been executed.  She wonders where God was in all of this turmoil; thus, she is shouting at him to get out of her life. She is conflicted about her beliefs and the death is influencing her conflict with God.
Graphic Novel Elements: In this picture, the Speech Bubble shape is being used to show the extent of Marjane's anger as she is shouting at God.  Her dialogue has an angry tone, and having the speech bubble be jagged emphasizes her shouting tone.  Her trust has turned to anger, and this is conveyed in the jagged, shouting shape of the Speech Bubble.

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Essential Question: 1:Childhood

This technique demonstrates the essential question about childhood as when a person have to deal with so many traumatic events in life, with all of the people dying because of the war, whether it around the people who was close to her or not, she feels sick just thinking that all of these tragedy could of been avoided. This shows that she is forced to grow up quickly, because as she is thinking about these kinds of things she has to stay strong and make sense of it all-and that takes deep thinking only an adult would have. Thus, it is clear that she is forced to grow up.

Graphic Novel Element: In this picture, the big clouds of smoke resulted from the bombing is much larger than everything else. It draws attention to the war, and thus help us understand why Marjane has to grow up and be strong because everyday there are so many people dying.

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Essential Question:Belief

This technique help answer the essential question about belief in god helps her to form her beliefs. The events that have happened in her life helps influence her belief that god sented her to fix the bad things around the world. Such as bring justice, love and strong to fight for her rights, show love for others.

Graphic Novel Element: From left to right Marjane’s facial expression is getting more and more serious, as the last face is angry yet determined to care out her task. Her face help created a sense of her determination and her attitudes towards being a prophet. Which this idea came from her belief in God and her believing that she is the chosen one.

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Essential Question: Belief

This elements helps answer the questions about how people form their belief. This picture illustrates the young kids’ illusions and hope of a new and better way of life through the promises give by the Shah, and the only way they can get into the kingdom of god if they go to war and die. It also shows that people’s belief can be influenced by teachers and classmates in school. As that is the place where he was told this and attain the key.

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Essential question: Belief
This technique demonstrates the essential question about beliefs because the beliefs of the individuals show that they are unhappy with the process that Iran has taken with their ideals to continue the war even though Iraq conceded.
Graphic Novel Elements: In this picture, the difference of colors are such as that the world around them is dark and the light is coming out in their artistry. They see that the war is not good for their country and they are attempting to express their feelings through graffiti.

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Essential Question: Individual within a Revolution (#3)
In the picture you can tell that she doing what she wants and doesn't care what other people think about her. Their is so much going on in Iran and instead of her trying to go along with something that she doesn't believe in, she decides to go her own way to survive and stay true to herself.
Graphic Novel Elements: In this picture, you can tell by her face that she isn't trying to impress anyone anymore. She wants to be a certain way and she has decided to do that. But, not everyone is like her. As you can see in the back of the picture in the car, 3 other women, who happen to be Guradians of the Revolution. They looks her with disgust and disapproval because their job is to arrest young girls who were improperly veiled. And as you can see, she is not properly veiled and they didn't like that she wasn't following the rules like she should be.

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Essential question: Belief
This technique demonstrates the essential question because after her soon wasn't granted a passport to get treatment, his wife was aggravated with the doctor. His belief was that god would take care of the decision whether her husband would live or ultimately, die.
Graphic Novel Elements: In this picture, the speech bubble is jagged, insuring the reader that the wife is expressing her anger and is using a louder tone of voice. Also with the doctor next to her, him expressing that she should calm herself can let the reader assume that the wife is very distraught and frustrated that her husband's life is in the hands of people who won't help.

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Engelhart, Lydia: Essential Question: What effects growing up? 

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Engelhart, Lydia: Essential Question: What effects growing up? 

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Marjane's parents decided to send her to Austria to get away from the war and dangers. The war really affects her growing up because the only reason her parents would send her away in her own is because of the war. She's only 14 and living away from her parents due to the war. The graphics novel element is faces. All 3 of them have a sad and j tense face which emphasizes that this is a hard thing to do for all of them.

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Essential question: What affects us growing up into adulthood?

In this panel, Marji and her family are being bombed. The author expresses that it is life altering moments like these that change a child into an adult. The image depicts Marji floating in space, lost and confused. She feels as though she has lost everything, including herself and there is no one to help her. Being bombed is traumatizing for anyone, child or adult. This event is what eventually makes her a better stronger person, thus converting her into an adult.

Element: Shading

As shown in the largely black image, Marji is floating in pitch black space. The dark shading of the space around her represents the negative emotions and fear she is feeling during the bombing, which converts her into an adult

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Essential question 3, How does someone survive and make sense of a conflicted world?

This panel depicts several ghosts with twisted faces in the movie theater, representing the many casualties of the Shah’s massacre. The author is demonstrating the difficulties of surviving in a corrupt world, and sometimes people have no choice and their innocent lives are taken. One can conclude that this powerful image represents Marji’s fear of standing up to a corrupt society, worrying that her actions could possibly lead to the death of herself and those around her.

Element: panel size

The fearful, twisted facial expressions of the ghosts represents the fear expressed from the general public of the Shah and their power to kill innocent people. The author decides to enlarge this image to cover almost the entire page, because of its importance in understanding her message, that the Shah killed many innocent lives resulting in a widespread fear of the corrupt government.

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This panel connects with the essential question how to people survive and make sense of a conflicted world. It connects because it shows many people fleeing the country to survive. The way these poeple are surviving and making sense of their conflicted country is by escaping it. The graphic novel element that helps emphasize this panel is the size of it. It takes up half of a page when usually panels only take up a little bit of room. Having it so big shows the amount of people leaving and hothead effect it had.

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Essential question: How do we form our beliefs and what influences them?
Marjane had so much faith in God and her religion was so strong before the revolution. The revouloution really influenced her beliefs as shown in the picture she's yelling at him to get out. She was angry at him because of all the things and influences going on around her.
Graphic novel element, caption: the rough and rigid edges surrounding her quote show how angry she was at God. in addition to that she has multiple explanation points within her quote also showing how emotional she was.

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Essential Question: How does a person make sense of a conflicting world.
This panel is shown right after the main cherector finds a bracelet of one of her friends in the rubble of a blown up building. She says "no scream in the world could have relieved my suffering and anger." She is saying that she is dealing with losing a friend by screaming and crying. She implies that nothing could have matched her sorrow at that moment. Most people probably think she means she is upset at losing a friend but I think that she is mad at the revolution for killing her.
Graphic Novel Element: in the panel there is no pictures only words in a caption. It is simbilic of how the Main character feels. She feels like there is an empty void in her life and that nothing can escape it or match it as shown by her words.

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Essential Question Beliefs (#4): Throughout her whole life she has been influenced by many different people in her life, but the most important people that have influenced her was her family. Her grandma told her to "be true to herself" because she is leaving Iran and going to Europe. Her parents wants her to be able to have a better life and be happy and is told to not forget who she is and where she is from.
Graphic Novel Element: In the picture below, you can see her face and it isn't very happy. She tells herself to "stay true to myself" but it's hard to believe that she means it when you look at her face. Her face is half showing and looks very scared. She isn't very positive everything will be ok since she is leaving by herself, and not knowing what to expect, even though she trusts her parents that this is the best thing for her.

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Essential question: Childhood
This technique demonstrates the essential question of childhood through Marji having to see her mother in an incapacitated state. She sees that her mother is so distraught by the sight of her child being sent away, she faints. This shows Marji that she is old enough to see her mother's true feelings rather than fake emotions that a parent would show their child to ensure that the child sees no problems.
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In this picture, you can see that Marji's face is extremely concerned because she can see her mother being carried away. Also, her mom has a look of that she is upset. With the look of the father as very sad, we can see that this is not a normal event that had just occurred. Also the people around them have concerned faces along with Marji.

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Essential Question: Question number 4: How do we form our beliefs and what influences them? People form there beliefs from what they are taught, and what they see in the world. We can see this when Marji snuck out of the house to go protest like her parents, and the brave people in the streets. Marji just wanted to stand up for what she was taught and what she believes in, and can’t understand why she was reprimanded by her mother for standing up for what her mother believes in, and what she believes in.

Graphic Novel Element: We can see by the expressions and the hand prints on Marjane and the maids face, that they feel sad and ashamed to have been reprimanded and hit by Marji’s mother, for just standing up what they believe in. They also look a little confused as to why they were hit for doing what her mother does, and for standing up for what they believe. Also the handprint in there faces is black, which really highlights it and shows that they can still feel it, and they are still ashamed of it, and aware that it is there.

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Essential Question Beliefs (#4): This technique demonstrates the essential Question about how people form their beliefs. Young men are being told that if they wanna be a martyr for their country, they will fight and die for them. These young boys are being influenced by the military that the only way to reach heaven and a better afterlife is by dying for their country. They manipulate these young men into fight for Iran, when they truly don't have any idea what they are getting into.
Graphic Novel Element: The size of the panel is very big in the book. I think the size of the panel show us readers, that this was a very horrific thing that happened back in the day. It shows that people don't care about one another, and were willing to lie so they are able to have an army. The size also shows how big an impact this made on Iranian people, especially mothers.

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Essential Question: Childhood
The graphic weight in this book can exemplify this question by showing the reader that although the people of Iran were living during very rough times parents were still doing as much as they could to ensure that their children's futures were secure and hopeful. In this panel, Marjane explains that her parents supplied her with many books. She wanted to be as involved as possible in the Revolution and was inspired by her very active parents. Instead of letting her join them, they provided her with the power of knowledge and she took advantage of this. She ended up having a common greater knowledge of current events than teachers.

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Essential Question: Cultureal identitiy

People in Iranian society stressed the importance of social classes and in this situation, Marjane's maid ends up liking the man next door. As gossip spreads, the neighbor finds out that she is not Marjane's sister and decides to cut all ties with her. Everyone has to conform to expectations of society and people care too much about how neighbors and what others think.

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Essential question: Beliefs
The erratic text bubbles reveal the intense emotions that Marjane and her father are feeling toward Saddam and the government.
It exemplifies the excitement of the moment.

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Essential question: How as an individual do we form our beliefs?

In the case of Marji, her beliefs are heavily influenced by her family. When she finds out that she has an Unlce Anoosh who was in prison, she automatically idolized him and was devestated by his death. It is influences like Uncle Anoosh who further push her to rebel against the Shah and their beliefs.

Element: face

The author depicts Uncle Anoosh as a heroic figure to demonstrate Marji’s high opinion of him. This heroic depiction is created by a bright white halo around him and a stoic facial expression. By using a heroic facial expression, the author further contributed to the idea that family like Uncle Anoosh has a large influence on Marji and her beliefs.

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How does a person survive in and make sense of a conflicted world?

The Shah is making all the women wear veils to protect themselves from rapists. Many think it is against their freedom to be ordered to wear the cloth around their heads. Marjane is conflicted because she says “Deep down I was very religious” but her family was “very modern”. She has a tough time making sense of all of it but she realizes that if she wants to be safe she must wear it.

Graphic elements: Black/White coloring

In the panel it shows two sides of Marjane. The left side shows what her family represents and the right side represents her religious side. The black and white colors show you the difference between the two sides and make it easy to tell the two sides apart.

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Essential Question #1: Childhood

This technique becomes a major key factor that ends up changing the way Marji perceives the chain of events that are happening around her during her childhood. And further more, helps the reader understand this change in behavior and influence that the Iranian revolution has on her personally growing up.

In the two panels, both contrast of one light and one dark background. This shows the change of mind that Marji is going through, and the influence that has been set upon her. There is no mid-ground but rather the foreground that the reader sees a change in her character. From wanting to become a prophet, to wanting to become a revolutionary and die a martyr. She thinks that it is for the greater good, but in reality, they throw people onto a throne of lies and deception through means of false comfort and prosperity.

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Essential Question: Question number 3: How does a person survive and make sense of a conflicted world? In a conflicted world, People survive and make sense by doing what they have always done, and what is familiar to them. As they are being bombed and our hiding in a shelter, Marji’s mother starts to smoke a cigarette because it’s what she’s always done and it is what calms her down, and helps her make sense of the situation.

Graphic Novel Element: The graphic Element used here is shading, the cigarette Marji’s mother is smoking is white compared to the black background. It is supposed to really stick out and make it clear the she is smoking. We know that she is less stressed when she smokes so it is in white to emphasize it, and show that it is important and it helps her keep the dark away.

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How do we form our beliefs and what influences them?

The Shah leaves the country and many are very happy to see him leave. They have a party to celebrate the end of the Shah. The way they formed their beliefs were by the things the Shah did and the things he made them do. He made women wear veils and put many men in prison.

Graphic element: faces

Everyone shown in this panel has a happy face. They are very excited that the Shah is gone and their faces show that. The faces in the panel make it easy to tell how the people are feeling. The graphic also makes it easy to tell their emotions.

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What affects us growing up into adulthood?

Marjane wanted to have a hero in her family and she found that with Anoosh. Anoosh was a prisoner and had been in the U.S.S.R. and she thought that was really cool. While people are growing into adulthood I think the adults in your life affect you the most. They can teach you certain things others can't. Also many children look up to adults and some strive to be like them when they get older.

Graphic element: speech bubbles

Anoosh is telling marjane how he swam across the aras river and made it to the U.S.S.R. And she thinks he's amazing. Marjane's speech bubble has two bubbles which means she is saying it in her head instead of saying it out loud.

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Essential Question: Question number 1: What effects is growing into adulthood? Many things effect us when we are growing up, but the thing that most effects us is what we see around us in the world. If we are told that somebody is nice, but them see them being mean to somebody, then we form our own opinions about that person. We can see this when Marji’s teacher tells her that girls need to wear the veil and that it is bad if you don’t, but she sees her mother and other women and men oppose it and she forms her own opinion about it.

Graphic Novel Element: The Element that we see here is graphic weight, the veils the women are wearing are black and catch our eye. We can see Marji’s option on the veil, because she draws them in black. She makes them seem terrible and dark, and like they cover everything up that makes girls individual. By shading the veils in dark she  shows that she has taken her options for what she sees, and not what the teacher tells her.

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This is the very first panel of the book and it has a big emphasis on how people look, specifically girls, in everyday school. This answers essential question 1 on childhood where she is only 10 years old and she looks exactly like everyother  girl in her class.
Graphic Novel Element: in this panel she shows both her self and her whole class but she says we can see her in the class photo even tho we clearly see her just to the left. This shows how gutters work in comics.

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This panel is of the main characters uncle who was a political prisoner who was executed by the state. The fact that the newspaper and ducks was the only thing on the panel shows how important this is to the main character.
Graphic Novel Element: the caption adds additional emotion to the story.

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Essential question 3: How does a person survive in and make sense of a conflicted world?

The panel shows the city of Tehran that is deserted because a lot of people have fled due to the bombardments. The protagonist is trying to live there normally, even if this seems impossible, since everything in her life is changing because of the war. However, Marjane doesn’t give up and she manages to continue is everyday life.

Graphic novel element: shading.

The contrast between the black shaded trees and the white road is really evident. This increases the sense of desolation in the city, that appears abandoned.

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Essential question 4: How do we form our beliefs and what influences them?

This picture shows Marjane taking part in her first party. While the country is fighting in a war and the leaders are convincing young kids to join the conflict, she is trying to live freely, because she has understood that this war is unnecessary and could have been avoided. Thus Marjane doesn’t want her life to be influenced by that, but she wants to be only a normal teenager.

Graphic novel elements: hands and feet.

Both Marjane and the kids in the background are dancing and having fun: you can tell it because they are shaking their hands and legs. Thus, even though bad things happen during a war period, as the kids demonstrate, you can always find a way to escape.

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Essential question 1: What affects us growing up into adulthood?

Marjane is going to leave Iran, continuing her life in Europe. She is afraid of what she will face in a different country, because she is only fourteen years old; in addition she has never left her own nation. Thus she knows that from now on she will have to get by herself, because she is not a child anymore.

Graphic novel element: face.

The insecure face of Marjane expresses all of her fears about going abroad, and living far from her family. Behind her, even her parents’ facial expression appears disconsolate for the departure of their daughter.

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Essential Question 1: What affects us growing up into adulthood?
Marjane goes through alot with the revolution and this forces her to grow up faster. She has to learn how to be independent and to look out for herself because she could get in trouble for the smallest things. Her realization that she has to keep track of her own life propelled her into being an adult.
Graphic Novel Element: Faces
In this panel it shows every reaction that after the bomb. The faces shows the stress Marjane had to go through calling person after person hoping they were alright. hat propelled her in to adulthood

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Essential Question 4: Beliefs
The photo below shows Marjane with her family and friends celebrating the Shah stepping down and leaving the country. How we form our beliefs is largely due to the people we are around. In Persepolis, Marjane forms the belief that the Shah is a bad person because her family and her experiences influenced her. Although most people in Iran didn't like the Shah, her beliefs would have formed differently if she had a different perspective. For example, she wouldn't have been celebrating or maybe even be glad the Shah stepped down if her family had supported the Shah. Our beliefs (especially as kids) are influenced heavily by what the people around us believe.
Graphic Novel Elements:
In this photo, the panel is demonstrating the people's happiness and their attitudes by their hands. People are waving around peace signs, some are clapping, and one is putting both of their thumbs up. Since they are celebrating the Shah's exile, the use of this graphic novel element further shows their happiness and is able to tell the story in a different light.

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Essential Question: How does someone survive in and make sense of a conflicted world?
Marjane went though an entire revolution and survived so she had to take all the wins in her life. For example when her parents when out of the country and brought her back posters and a jean jacket the represented her little freedom she had left.
Graphic Novel Element: Panel (size, shape, placement)
The panel’s size shows how important this particular win was. The Shah resigning was a huge win for everyone and a very important moment in marjane’s life. The is shown when the panel is taking up an entire page.

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Essential Question: How do we form our beliefs and what influences them
Marjane went to a school with specific curriculum to boost the shah in society but
Marjane’s parents had different opinions. Her parents were a big part of how she got her opinions in society.
Graphic Novel Element: Faces
In the panel you can see everyone’s face is angry. This is because they are against the shah. She learns about protests and standing up for what you want from her parents who go to the protests. They help form her opinions in society.

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Essential Question: Childhood
A big factor in someone's childhood is what they are exposed to. Many people who have little life experience that aren't exposed to much will probably have a much slower time in growing into adulthood. Marji is forced to grow up because of her life experiences, and the things she faced. This can be seen in the picture below with all of boys that are Marji's age rushing into battle and dying. Marji is exposed to this type of thing, and as a result, she grows up much faster than most people.
Graphic Novel Element:
In the photo, the contrast between the flying bodies and the explosions puts a dramatic and flashy effect in the storytelling to convey the tragic message about the young kids being killed in battle. But one thing that sticks out is the key on the boys necks; the promise that they would go to heaven swinging around as they die. The author uses this sad panel to show the brutal extent the war had on the country and its people and how it forced innocent people to die young.

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Essential Question: Cultural Identity
When the new regime replaces the Shah, they banned the old Iranian national anthem. After not hearing their countries anthem for over a year, Marji and her parents are overcome with mixed feelings of sadness and pride when they hear it on the tv. They had identified with their national anthem culturally for so long, but they have to balance the demands of the new regime by not associating with the anthem anymore as a requirement. Here, we see the trouble in balancing societies rules when it conflicts with Marjis own beliefs.
Graphic Novel Element:
Here, Marji's face along with her parents face's portrays what the author is feeling. Hearing their old anthem brought tough, mixed feelings of pride and sadness, and this is seen with their facial expressions. They are crying, but it's not entirely because they are sad. Their mixed emotions give the reader a true sense of what Marjane may be feeling.

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Essential question #2: Cultural identity

On this page, Majane’s mother joins her fellow demonstrators, who are trying to abolish the veil from everyday life as an Iranian woman, because they see it as a violation of their own freedom as a person. Those who are “for the veil” however, feel that it is right for every woman in Iran to wear it, because of how it can hide their identity and provide protection in public. The blend of black and white colors creates a much bigger picture though. As the reader sees the pro-veil demonstraters in black, the anti-veil protesters actually wear white. Accurately representing both sides of the situation between freedom and oppression. In the fifth panel of the page, Marjane’s mother loses her color as she grows more and more weary of her individuality and safety. Showing that she fears her own self-aware decisions, and tries to hide herself in the mask of oppression.

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Essential question #3: Individual within a Revolution.

This panel shows Marjane’s Grandma describe to her granddaughter about how the Shah came to power in the first place, and recites his inauguration speech as king to his nation. The element of graphic weight in this picture represents the little promise that the Shah would keep towards his people, even going as far as Marjane’s expression of shock in the tiny bubble on the top left of the panel. And also the way that the Shah says that he is the light of the Iranians, and how he will lead them into a greater future. Despite the bleakness of the night sky in the background with little to no stars in sight.

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Essential question 3: individual within a revolution. Marjane has to live with being a person and growing up while a revolutionary is occurring, so she is conflicted about how she feels at times and has to make hard choices about what is right and wrong about here surroundings at a young age. Her parents also influence her on her opinions about the revolution as she is still young.
Graphic novel element: the graphic weight put on the guards shows how they are in charge of the situation and how the civilians can't do anything about it. This is used to represent the oppression of the Shaw

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Essential question 4: how are our beliefs formed and why. Our beliefs our formed by experiences we have, things we witness, and perhaps most important of all, what people tell us when we are young. And example of the last method is how Marjane is told things by here parents about the revolution and the Shaw, so she grows up with certain assumptions and beliefs surrounding those events and people. However she also experiences events that change her opinion throughout the book showing it is not just limited to that one way.
Graphic novel element: black and white shading. This picture shows the photos taken during the Shaws reign over Iran. The photos are meant to look dramatic and more artistic than the rest of the graphic novel so the author uses strong lines created by the contrast of black and white to make dynamic looking photos.

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Essential question 1: what effects us growing up. Marjane has to deal with growing up while a revolutionary is occurring, so she is conflicted about how she feels at times and has to make hard choices about what is right and wrong about here surroundings at a young age. Her parents also influence her on her opinions about the revolution as she is still young. However even though she is only a kid, she goes through events that change her ideas, showing how in times of strife, things will effect one the most.
Graphic element: faces. The face of Marjane's mother after their family friend is killed shows the utter loss felt when someone dies, or especially when someone is murdered. This also shows the raw emotion one can get across in a graphic novel through picture that one cannot in a regular book