https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97 Summative Grade: You must complete 3 DIFFERENT posts with all of the requirements and demonstrating that you have read, understood, and analyzed for both the content and the use of graphic novel techniques. Directions: Using writing, pictures, and/or video, analyze how the graphic novel elements in Persepolis convey the author's overall message about one of the essential questions topics in the text-- (1) Childhood: What affects us growing up into adulthood (2) cultural identity: How do individuals balance the demands and requirements of society with their own beliefs (3) Individual within a Revolution: How does a person survive in and make sense of a conflicted world? (4) Beliefs: How do we form our beliefs and what influences them? en-us 2017-11-10 18:48:50 UTC 2023-01-22 10:37:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215510909 The people of Iran are all estatic about the fall of the Shah and his corrupt ideas and actions. The people were strongly opposed to this and we can see this based upon the looks of pure excitement on their faces as they all have huge smiles on their faces. The book focuses less on using words and more so focuses on the emotions of the people and how their culture comes together as one after the fall of the Shah. They have formed their beliefs about the Shah based upon his actions and they are all celebrating his decision to step down.]]> 2017-12-12 16:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215510909 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215511313 Essential question 1: Marjane’s face in this panel is determining and consistent. With the cigarettes on her hand, her face tells us that she has grown up, she isn’t a kid anymore. Her face’s expression seems to be pretty proud because she just dare to smoke. Through this, we can see her changing from a little Marjane]]> 2017-12-12 16:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215511313 002594 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215518576 After learning about torture and different methods of torture, satrapi makes a game out of torture and creates different torture techniques for kids, which makes her feel evil with power.]]> 2017-12-12 17:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215518576 lisa_lewis https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215615571 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.

]]> 2017-12-12 20:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215615571 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215878594 Marjane lives in such a world where torture was not an uncommon punishment for prisoners. This panel has some brutal images depicting the horrors of torture and the cost of being captured. These images enhance the graphic weight of the panel as they show emotion. This panel represents the formation of beliefs. We can see by how Marjane looks up at her father, she is conflicted, but also starting to share the idea that the people who ordered this horrible torture are horrible people themselves. She is picking up on the ideas her father and his friends carry because she is being exposed to them so frequently.]]> 2017-12-13 16:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215878594 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215886689 In the panel on the right, marjane is completely isolated by a black background so it’s pretty much just her and her thoughts left for the reader to see. No distractions at all. This allows us to see how she is alone in her beliefs and is isolated even among people. This panel works with essential question about formation of beliefs. She is believing exactly what she is told in school without questioning the information she is being told. This is a main source of ideas and beliefs as it is somewhere we spend a lot of our time working and talking with others.]]> 2017-12-13 17:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/215886689 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216550666 In this panel Marjane is upset with God because her Uncle Anoosh was executed. She was yelling at God and she in the end yelled at him to "get out". Her face is being portrayed as her being very angry. This is very well portrayed though her eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and body language. Her eyebrows are sticking straight up and she has lines between her eyebrows as well. Her eyes are wide open and her mouth is in the shape of her yelling. She also is pointing away from her. This panel works with the essential question 1, how does events in our childhood effect our adult life? Marjane had looked at her Uncle as a Hero. Not long after her Uncle died the war had started and it was not good. The city they lived in was bombed. Marjane became very defiant and opinionated about the war. Her behaviors got her kicked out of school and in trouble a lot. She did everything she could to break the rules. In this part of the book one can see Marjane switch roles from a child to an adult. ]]> 2017-12-15 16:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216550666 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726010 And this photo Marjane is affected by peer pressure. And that affects how she grows up. You can see by the faces of the girls that their heads are tilted up with their mouth open and they're laughing at Marjane. They are laughing at her because she does not want to climb the wall that all the other older girls do. They're trying to peer pressure her and by making her feel embarrassed that she does not want to participate and acting rebellious. In the book they use this part in her life to show on how she's being made into her own person. She has to decide whether she wants to go along with the crowd or if she's going to be her own person and stand up for herself. And this answer the first question what affects us growing up into adulthood.]]> 2017-12-17 03:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726010 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726109   ]]> 2017-12-17 04:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726109 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726137 In this photo you can see Marjane and her grandmother dumping out the alcohol into the toilet before the police come and find the illegal alcohol. I thought that this was a good example on how Marjane and her family balanced their own beliefs compared to societies rules (question 2) as you can see with the special-effects lettering that it is in a jagged word bubble to show that they are in a hurry and that they are frantic and adamant about getting rid of the alcohol. They have the alcohol in the first place because they did not really care if society said it was illegal or not. As a family they like to party with their friends and that was just part of their life. But the balance comes in the play when the police find out about it and they have to quickly get rid of it they have to decide whether it is worth saving the alcohol because they like to have fun or throwing the alcohol away to not get in trouble and possibly tortured. In the end they decide that it is better to throw the alcohol away.]]> 2017-12-17 04:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726137 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726311 2017-12-17 04:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726311 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726408 And this photo the text is very important so everything else is in so the text can be the main focus. The text is talking about how margins uncle believes that the rebels will rule and throw over The religious leaders. (Question 4) hearing her uncle speak so passionately about what he believes and how much she believes in the rebellion helped form her believes and helped her form her passion on her political believes. Throughout the story you can see how big of an impact marjane uncle has on marjane's life. She found her believes and her believes were influenced because of the culture and community that she grew up in because of her parents and because of the strong role model she had in her life.

]]> 2017-12-17 04:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726408 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726526 2017-12-17 04:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216726526 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216813176 Marjane lived in an area where rebelling was apart of the normal life. It was even considered a good thing to go to jail and if you went to jail you were called a hero. All of Marjane's friends had a dad or brother or uncle in prison. Marjane was jealous and also wanted to have a hero in her family. The graphic with of this photo is that it shows her Uncle who went to jail with a halo like crown around him. This panel has lots of graphic weight as it would lead the reader to assume he's a good person when he actually had gone to jail. He has the background dark and the contrast with the white around him implies that he's a hero or an angle. This panel supports the fourth essential question, how do we form our beliefs and what influences them? Marjane wanted to fit in with the rest of her classmates of having a hero in the family. She believed that any person who goes to jail for the revolution is a hero. She believes this because most of the society around her tells her that that is true. Many people now of days would say that it's the opposite and people who go to jail are not heros, and that's because society has told us that. Many of a persons beliefs, and especially children's beliefs, come from parents, teachers, friends, and the community around them. ]]> 2017-12-17 21:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216813176 xneiwmsk https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216827570 Marjis hand shows her anger to god and enhances the dark/ sad mood. This connects to the main theme of text types because it shows the similarities of how her words of “get out” combine with the pointing away from her. This enhances the story because it really shows Marjis pain. This relates to childhood because as a kid she wanted to be gods prophet but through all the pain she was out through with her uncle dying, she grew up because of the pain she was put through which is seen here as she gets mad at god.]]> 2017-12-18 01:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216827570 xneiwmsk https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216828500 The fact that the officers hands are on their sides show how they are strict and that they don’t want to help the ones locked inside. This later helps Iranians to blame the shah for the fire which helps in the rebellion. This can relate to how people create their own beliefs. In this chapter people influence each other through rumors about the shah saying that he wanted to have people die in the fire.]]> 2017-12-18 01:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216828500 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216829379 In this panel Marjane's neighborhood had just been bombed and her friend from across the street was in her house when it was bombed. Marjane was at the rubles of the house and saw her friends bracelet on the ground and it was attached to her friends hand still. This panel is completely black with just a small caption at the bottom saying how no scream could suffice her sorrow. The color black is often a color of sorrow. As it is worn at funeral and during times of sadness and grief. The panel makes sense to this moment as Marjane had just lost a dear friend and was talking about her sadness of this event. This panel fits with the third essential question of how does one survive in and make sense of a conflicted world? I think this question fits with this part of the book because Marjane was experiencing how corrupt her world really was. She needed to make sense that this was how her world ran. She became very violent in school and eventually hit her principal and was kicked out of that school. She probably didn't cope with the loss well and that is why she became very violent towards others. This is a turning point for Marjane as after this she is moved away by her family to live in an area where she can hopefully have a good schooling and won't live in such a conflicted world. ]]> 2017-12-18 01:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216829379 xneiwmsk https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216839471 In this image the faces of the citizens shows how hard they were shouting for the downfall of the shah. They formed these demonstrations to show the shah how much The didn’t approve of what he was doing in office. These beliefs about the shah were formed by each citizen but when protesting, citizens influenced each other to get into the spirit of “demonstrations”. ]]> 2017-12-18 04:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis/3aeogce8nt97/wish/216839471