Whoops!--this didn't post as I thought on Friday, so I'm posting it a little late. I apologize for the inconvenience!
Read from the chapter "The Croissant" through "The Exam"
Answer two of the following:
Q1: Throughout her time in Austria, people either betray her or accuse her of being a thief or a liar. Do you think this is Satrapi's way of revealing the racism that is at the core of European (and perhaps, Western) society? Or is she indicting herself as a homesick, insecure drug-user who couldn't fit in? Would this have happened anywhere--or just here?
Q2: When she first arrived in Austria, she had trouble adjusting to the attitudes and values of her peers? Why does the same thing happen when she returns home to 'her people'? How have people (or how has she) changed?
Q3: Related to the above, how does she begin to fit into Iranian society again? Why might this involve a compromise of her identity as sharp as the one she made in Austria to fit in among her 'punk' friends?
Q4: Discuss a passage where the images are crucial to telling Satrapi's story even more than the words. In other words, what scene almost needs to be a comic to really sell the idea (or the emotion) of the story? Explain how you read the picture in tandem with the words/story.
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