Why Everyone Needs To Read Marjane Satrapi's Graphic Novel "Persepolis," A Funny And Heartbreaking Memoir Of Growing Up During The Iranian Revolution

"Oh gosh, Persepolis had specified a lasting interaction connected me. It was the archetypal clip I learned thing astir Iran that wasn’t from a occidental atlas. I’m a small shocked due to the fact that she was inactive truthful young, really. I’ve thought of her often during this year’s chaos. We watched the movie adaptation of Persepolis during an creation past lecture bid connected New Media erstwhile I was 19."

"My lecturer was herself a refugee, and she was truthful moved by it contempt having already seen it dozens of times. That stuck with maine astir arsenic overmuch arsenic the story.

Her creation benignant perfectly impacted my illustration, too. I loved her usage of color, and it was honestly the archetypal clip I ever saw graphic novels arsenic thing that could beryllium ‘adult’- accelerated guardant astir a decade, and I ain truthful many."

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