In case you have a different version, read from Chapter "The Veil" through "The Sheep."
Answer two of the following:
Q1: In her Introduction to the book, Satrapi writes that “I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. I also don’t want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom…or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten.” How does a comic book/graphic novel help her do this—that is, memorialize those who are forgotten in place of the more visible extremists?
Q2: Why do you think Satrapi tells her story from the perspective of a child? Since a child knows very little about politics, religion, or war, this would seem a very limited perspective to discuss history and extremist governments. What does it allow her to do, say, or reveal that an adult narrator might not?
Q3: How does Satrapi try to communicate the more ‘non-Western’ elements of Iran through the novel? In general, why might this novel—though written in French and published in Paris—be a work similar to The Mystic Masseur?
Q4: In the comic, Satrapi remarks that "it was funny to see how much Marx and God looked like each other" (13). Why was Marjane brought up to revere writers/thinkers such as Marx, when we're often taught to despise them in the West? Why might she see Marx as, like God, merciful and omnipotent?
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