Persepolis Reading

For class we had to read a chapter from a graphic novel titled Persepolis. The chapter we read is titled "The Veil" this chapter follows a young girl while living during the Islamic revolution. Many new laws and rules had been set which everyone had to follow. This made life for Marjane and her family very different because they now had to accustom to a new way of living. In this chapter we also saw how Marjane is very different than all the other characters. Marjane believed that she would become a prophet when she got older. Only men were prophets and she was only a kid which made all her peers laugh at her while teachers worried if she was okay or not. Another graphic novel we read was American Born Chinese a story about a young boy named Jing Wang that was picked on for looking different. Both of the main characters from these stories were isolated from certain groups because they were different. These graphic novels are stories that many people today can relate to, like being bullied or just being looked at differently for the way they look or what they believe. During our class discussion we talked about the similarities and differences between both of these graphic novels. There are a few similarities but many differences. Each story has a different setting, different situations, and the use of colors. In Persepolis the author chose to use black and white while the author in American Born Chinese  chose to use a variety of different colors. Colors helps tell a lot about a story. It helps to show the audience the author is trying to engage. Persepolis is illustrated in black and white which tells us the story can be directed to an older audience while American Born Chinese is illustrated in many different colors showing that the audience can be anyone from any age. Both of these reading were interesting because they’re stories that seem very realistic to situations people face today.