IB English Persepolis test

Anoosh

Marjane's uncle. He was imprisoned by the Shah for being a secret Russian spy. Later was executed

Marjane's parents

attend demonstrations everyday. Dad is a photographer mom was taken a picture of on the newspaper she dyed her hair and wore a vail

marjanes grandpa

was prince and later was overthrown and put in prison. she goes visit him till this day. he is really unhealthy

- grandma was left with nothing and was poor

Mehri

Marjanes maid. Falls in love with neighbor boy and is too illiterate to write love notes to him. Cannot eat with the satrapis because of her social class

Laly

A friend of marji. Daughter of Siamak, a guy who was imprisoned, but everyone told his daughter Laly that he’s simply on a work trip.

Marji was overly blunt and decides to tell her that her father is just dead

When she was proved wrong after Siamak was released, Laly said my dad is a hero, and marji started to fall under the impression that for my dad to be a hero, he shouldve gone to prison

Marjane's 3 reasons to be a prophet:

●Her maid didn't eat with them. (different social class)

●Her father had a cadillac

●Her grandmother's knees always ached

What did the veil symbolize?

The restriction of freedom and it showed the way in which women wouldn't have freedom or voice.

What did bilingual schools represent to the new regime?

Symbols of capitalism and decadence.

How do women respond to the veil?

They protested, and did demonstrations against it. There was some demonstrations of the veil, but women actually protested for their freedom

Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, thousands of women—including Marjane's mother, Taji—took to the streets to protest the new decree forcing women to wear the hijab.

marji herself got to experience this first hand when her parents brought her to an anti-veil demonstration

gutter

the space between framed panels

panel

A distinct segment of the comic, containing a combination of image and text in endless variety.

frame

The lines and borders that contain the panels

foreground

image that appears closest to the viewer

Midground

allows centering of an image by using natural resting place for vision

graphic weight

A term that describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways

External Diolouge

What the character says aloud to others in the text

internal dialogue

A character's internal thoughts and feelings.

1935

Iran was named by shah