Persepolis Discussion

Going off what Maria said, I noted a bunch of advantages of Satrapi writing her story as a graphic novel. Some things I noticed were on pages 66, 75, 100, and 120. On 66 the illustration of the exiles fleeing among the sheep helped me to understand how the exiles actually executed that plan because the thought of that to me is a foreign concept that my imagination could not necessarily come up with. On page 75, the illustration of the different clothing attires for fundamentalist and progressive men and women was more helpful to see than just a description with words. Later on page 100, the graphic novel set up allowed multiple people to speak at once, giving readers different perspectives and narratives simultaneously. In a novel, getting multiple perspectives at once can be confusing, but with the illustration and the voice bubbles from different people, it is more clear. Finally on page 120 (and many other places throughout the novel) some boxes (comics, I’m not entirely sure what they are called) just had illustrations with no words. The silent images of these boxes were some of the most powerful parts of the novel and conveyed silence in a way a regular novel could not do.