{"id":223,"date":"2019-10-09T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=223"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:33:14","slug":"satrapis-story-through-a-childs-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/09\/satrapis-story-through-a-childs-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Satrapi&#8217;s Story Through A Child&#8217;s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that struck me about this first segment of\u00a0<em>Persepolis<\/em> is the fact that Satrapi is that the way the story is being told is through the lens of childhood, because that&#8217;s when it was occurring. Of course, some of the ideas presented and discussed are not child-like at all, but the truth is that she was exposed to them at that age. The way the story is told through pictures and through the voice of Satrapi gives it a lighter feel than you would expect from a discussion about revolution, imprisonment, torture and death. I found myself laughing at moments that weren&#8217;t necessarily funny, simply because the words were coming from a child. But when I stopped to think about it I realized that fact actually made it even less funny. A child making up games about torture might be funny in a fictitious comic strip, but not in a story that&#8217;s true. I just think it&#8217;s interesting that the story is kind of being filtered twice. Once, through this child-like perspective, but then again because it&#8217;s Satrapi writing about her childhood experiences as an adult.\u00a0I think this contributes to the ease of the consumption of the book as well. I think less people would read her story if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that it&#8217;s presented in the form of a graphic novel and presented in a way that lightens it, even if just a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that struck me about this first segment of\u00a0Persepolis is the fact that Satrapi is that the way the story is being told&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/09\/satrapis-story-through-a-childs-eyes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satrapi&#8217;s Story Through A Child&#8217;s Eyes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}