{"id":246,"date":"2019-10-18T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=246"},"modified":"2019-10-18T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:32:38","slug":"hitting-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/18\/hitting-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this section of <em>Persepolis<\/em> contains many important scenes, I was particularly struck by the panels recounting the explosion on Marji\u2019s street. Amidst shopping with her friend, Marji learns that a missile exploded in her neighborhood. Satrapi uses different shapes for the speech bubbles to depict different emotions. The shop clerk, who informs Marji of the incident, has a speech bubble drawn with slightly rigid lines which suggests a shakiness in his voice. Satrapi draws Marji\u2019s reply inside of a speech bubble with well-defined rigids; this artistic decision conveys both Marji\u2019s urgency and feelings of terror. Once Marji arrives back on her street, the style of the drawings within the cells change. The blank backgrounds call attention to the dialogue between Marji and her mother. As they discuss whether or not the Baba-Levy\u2019s were home at the time of the incident, Marji\u2019s eyes communicate fear. Marji and her mother pass the Baba-Levy\u2019s home which is illustrated with shading. This is the first time in the work that we see something drawn with more than one color. While physically the shading represents the damage caused by the missile, I think the artistic choice serves to draw attention to the magnitude of the event.<\/p>\n<p>In this moment, the war hits close to home (both literally and metaphorically) for Marji. Marji recognizes Neda\u2019s bracelet among the ruins of the Baba-Levy\u2019s home. Upon closer examination, Marji realizes that the bracelet is still attached to Neda\u2019s arm. This unimaginable moment, particularly for a young child to experience, is life-altering. Up until this point in the graphic novel, Marji idealized aspects of the war; however, in the last cell on page 142, Marji expresses both feelings of suffering and anger. This moment clearly causes any of those romantic feelings about war to disappear. The choice to express Marji\u2019s feelings with just a black square as the illustration reveals the intensity of these feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this section of Persepolis contains many important scenes, I was particularly struck by the panels recounting the explosion on Marji\u2019s street. Amidst shopping with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/18\/hitting-close-to-home\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitting Close to Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","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\/246","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\/4516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}