Summary of Satrapi's Persepolis

The episodic graphic novel of Marjane Satrapi narrates a story of herself as a young girl who grew up during the times of post-revolutionary in Iran (Chute, 2008). Marjane Satrapi, instead of simple-coming of age story, she inserts difficulties of religious, economic and political strife that shaped her development, from childhood to adolescence. There is an exploration of the effects and responses by the comic regarding the ideological implementations of Islamic theocracy, in both their form and their narrative. In her analysis, Hillary Chute represents different ways that Satrapi employs graphic novel forms to convey Iranian Revolution’s traumatic experience. The forms employed are capable of expressing the captured experiences. Hilary, additionally, discussed veiling variations (Chute, 2008). The veiling variation showed how the Iranians initiated mechanisms of discussing their opposition and views indirectly.

In fact, they did not break theocracy law. Chute links historical and political trauma with the individual, highlighting how events encompassing revolution formed part of daily life and existed alongside Marjane. Chute says that the bite and the force of the narrative originate from radical disjuncture existing between gorgeous minimalism drawing of Satrapi and traumatic events that are infinitely complicated (Chute, 2008). Lastly, Satrapi challenges, successfully, numerous western stereotypes regarding Islamic cultures (Chute, 2008). She increased visibility to herself using her own biases through excluding entire culture experience with non-western beliefs. Since she was following the western culture it was easy for readers from the west to copy this trap because Marjane was in the veil that translated her as oppressive, which likely lead to Islamic culture’s negative organization.