I chose to discuss pages 18 and 19 from Persepolis for my quote response. The first picture is of demonstrators Shouting "DOWN WITH THE KING!"(Satrapi,18) the dialogue depicts the young girls parents demonstrating the next illustrations show the army marching up on to the protesters while the protesters throw rocks at the army. The next illustrations have the parents talking to their daughter whose pleading them to play Monopoly with her..they both laugh at the irony of their daughter wanting to play Monopoly with the given circumstances.
Page 19 was a pretty interesting the dialouge is as follows "As for me, I love the King he was chosen by GOD"-Perspolis "Who told you that?"-Father "My teacher and GOD himself."Persepolis.(Satrapi,19) The rest of the dialouge contiues on with her father explaing the false-hood of what his daughter believes.
I think the words that stick out to me are when she says and GOD himself. it's interesting that she herself didn't really understand what was going on around her.
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Lacie Ballard
1 comments:
Hi, Lacie. I like the stylization of the people in those crowd scenes. The demonstrators all have the same facial expressions. The soldiers all have the same marching-with-guns pose, and the rock-throwers all have the same rock-throwing pose. This repetition suggests that people in crowds are all the same. They pick up the fervor of the people around them and just join in without much thought. While I'm sure the demonstrators all had different reasons for being there, being part of a crowd reduces them to that crowd feeling. Nancy
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