Question 1.

       The impact of the visuals played a large role while reading the graphic memoir. After reading a panel I did not have to guess what the picture might have been nor did I have to guess the expression of faces. The visuals helped explain the story as a whole and made it easier to comprehend. Reading Marjane's story about her life in Tehran gave me a new outlook on how bad the people use to suffer and probably still suffer today, just only worse. In Perpepolis I she was a child with great ambition and a wild imagination, she a was just like any other normal child: granted, Marjane seemed a little mature for her supposed aged. Even with all the controversy going on in Tehran, her parents still managed to give her a normal childhood and let her posses her inner child; even if that meant only doing so in the house. However, Marjane had a plan and by the end of the Perpepolis I she was off to study in a foreign country. I predict that in Perpepolis II it will take about her adult journeys and adult ambitions she wishes to peruse.


Question 2.

     Young children do not have brains, they simply have sponges for brains. A child will absorb and retain about almost anything they tell; it is quite scary sometimes. Sometimes this can harm children; for example I feel that Marjane is informed about too much in her upbringing. But given the circumstances, she needed to know what was going on just in case her house was bombed or something happened to her parents. Any information that you have to think twice about saying to someone will always be harmful to them as an individual no matter; just like an orange will always be orange, you cannot change the outcome it will be orange and the news will still be bad no matter what way you go about it. I think her parents did the right thing and helped raised a strong and independent women who knew how to stand on her own two feet and knew how to take of herself. There was no possible way they could control how and what Marjane absorbed.