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Background

Mr. Ostini

Fall 2013

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Purpose

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  • Prepare you for college
  • Open our minds to other cultures
  • My passion
  • Your passion
  • Complete Work = Grade will be Good
  • Not Complete Work = Grade will be Bad
  • Discussion, Homework, Written Work, Thinking, Focus

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Essential Understandings

  • We develop our beliefs from a wide range of influences.
  • Individuals are a product of our society, but not necessarily in unity with it.

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Anticipation Guide from Introduction

  • ___ 1. Iran has always been rich.
  • ___ 2. Iran is the site of one of the great Ancient empires- the Persian Empire.
  • ___ 3. The Iranians fought against Germany in World War II.
  • ___ 4. Americans overthrew the Iranian government in the 1950’s.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran ( I - Ron)

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Why does Iran matter?

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Marjane Satrapi

Born in 1969 in Iran

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She grew up in Tehran

in a progressive family

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Wrote Persepolis

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Lives in Paris, and is a

regular contributor to

magazines and newspapers

around the world.

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Who is Marjane Satrapi?

  • Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novelist and illustrator.
  • As a child, she attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed the following:
  • the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday life consequences of Iranian politics
    • the fall of the Shah
    • the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini
    • the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.

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Why did she write Persepolis?

  • Satrapi said she hoped Persepolis would combat the negative images people had of her native country.
  • When the Iranian Revolution broke out, most people in the West only saw images of the revolutionary leaders, which did not reflect the lives of ordinary Iranians, she said.

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"If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less," she wrote on the Pantheon website.

"That is why I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just like other children."

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Why is the book called Persepolis?

Why does Satrapi call her book Persepolis instead of something like Growing Up in Iran?

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What does she want to tell young Iranians?

  • She also said she hoped to find a way to get the book to young Iranians, perhaps through the Internet, so that more of them could learn the truth about what happened in their country in the early 1980s.
    • From notablebiographies.com

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Persepolis: Award Winner

  • The book won two of Europe's biggest awards for comic books and graphic novels, the Angouleme International Comics Festival's Coup de Coeur award and the Prix du Lion from a comics association in Belgium.

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