#5
The writers voice is just like any regular person. What she writes isn't to complicated to understand, you don't need a dictionary to figure out what shes saying. Its just as if she was talking to you directly. I identify most with marji as the teenager. Every teenager has their phase of rebelling their parents and thinking their grown and can do whatever they want. I can understand why she didnt tell her mom why it took her so long to get home when she was almost sent by those women. I probably wouldnt of said anything to my mom either. Marji as a child didnt really have much of a effect on my reading as the older marji did. As a child she didnt really understand most of what was going on. As a teen everything changed.
#7
Iranians enjoyed life by parties. They were banned but Marjis family still had parites. What made me laugh in this story was how her parents defended her and her friends when the teachers had all these wierd rules. Her father said to the theacher"if hair is as stimulating as you say then you need to shave your mustache" lol. The jokes and pictures add the comic relief. The scences are relavant to the story because they show how te people rebelled towards the revolution.
#9
The kids looked hip by sneaking their clothes under their veils also they were allowed to wear it in their house. Marji wore clothes to Gandhi avenue. Which is where people sold illegal tapes and such. I don't know how I would of acted. I probably would of been the same becaus eI know my parents would of acted like that. Im not really rebellious because Ive seen what my parents do when my sisters did rebellious things.

#2
I think persepolis is more powerful as a non fictional story because it tells a real story with real opinions. Many people didnt kno about the Islamic Revolution. Marjane helps explain it in a interesting way. Also many people especially americans consider someone with a veil or some kind of head wrap an terrorist. In the story she shows that they all arent. Ive never read a memoir before but im guessing if its fictional it would make peopl believe in fictional things.
#3
Satrapi shows this by stating the other point of views of people. For example when she went to school and the teacher was telling them to wear veils. Her mom was mad and didnt want to wear them and the kids kept taking them off any ways. Persepolis teaches me alot about Iran. I didnt know that women had to go through all this to wear the veils. Also I didnt even know that it was called a veil lol. Also Persepolis taught me about the Islamic Revolution. It helps me understand that not all Iranians are for war and they all dont want to fight us for the money we dont have.
#5
Marji in the story is like any regular girl, except shes probably the only child that likes to listen and watch the news. She is very funny and she likes to brag a lot about things. The thing I liked about Marji was she liked to speak her mind and tell everyone what was really going on, but at the same time was a respectful nice girl. All she wanted was to be able to call one of her family members a hero in the war. The little girls reaction pretty much made the story. I think if she wasnt a narrator it would of been alot different. The people she was around helped show different reactions for example she was really shocked and disturbed when she saw the girls bracelet with a destroyed hand with it, and her mom didnt have a reaction to it. Therefore it showed two different reactions to one situation.

Information and Technology

This theme is pretty much the main theme throughout the book. Every is using the feed as their technology and information reciever. Many people with the feed don't know how to write or communicate in different languages besides Violet. Shes the only one that doesnt use the feed as often as the others do.

I-Phone

I chose this picture because the i phone has many different things it could do. It can play music, you can search the web, you can buy/play games, download videos/ youtubes and so much more. Many people can even use this to watch t.v (you can also do this on regular cell phones). So if your a college student and dont want to spend money on cable jus get a i-phone or cell phone with internet connection. I chose this image because as soon as these phones came out it was like the top selling thing in America. Just seeing many people with them influenced me. People either have an I-phone or Ipod-touch. which both do the same thing except the i-phone makes calls and the Ipod doesnt. This pretty much says itself. People use youtube to get the news they missed. Others use it to "broadcast yourself" they use it to get famous and/or just to entertain themselves. its almost likke the feed just not planted in your head. Its the first people think of when you said u missed your favorite show and such they just say "go youtube it". Personally I love youtube. I use it all the time.

Blog 2

"They're also waiting to make you want things. Everything we've grown up with...it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to...they do these demographic studies that divide everyone up into a few personality types, and then you get ads based on what you're supposedly like. They try to figure out who you are, and to make you conform to one of their types for easy marketing"

The feed is almost like fashion ads to me. All fashion is targeted at teens or mothers/fathers who want to be young(or as old people say "hip"). Every celebrity in the industry must look good or have their own wierd style to be noticed, and thats what teens want..to be noticed. For example back in the day when MC hammer came out with the hammer time pants everyone else started to wear them. Like Quendy and Calista started wearing the "Riot" gear. Or When Nelly wore the bandage on his cheek many people started wearing those, the St.Lunatics came out with the airforce ones song thats when Nike really started getting business. There are so much more but i think Fashion magizines today are like the feed. I think if i had a feed i would get lots and lots of song ads. I am a music feen, me and my sisters are. We remix songs all the time and jus play music all day like right now im listening to Leona Lewis Forgivness. Or I would get comedy ads Everyone who knows me know that i just go on youtube and find random things like Lasarah or ghetto news reporter :). If I had a feed with the chat I would use it all day everyday! I text message all the time an if i had that chatting thing it would be wayy easier then texting. I think it would really effect the communication with people because everyone would get used to not talking so there would really be no point to talk if u can jus say it in your head. Also many people would not be doing good in school because teachers may not even know if ur chatting or not unless they had sum chat block but even then children will find a way to get around it.

"this is my project"

Violets project is to trick the feed into making her un-marketable. She doesnt want the feed to put her in some category where the feed would tempt her into buying things. Her idea is to persuade the feed she wants the most rediculous things but not buy them. This shows that Violet wants to find a way for people with the feed to learn how to think and do for themselves. I think shes starting to make Titus become an independent person even though he doesnt realize it. Titus's response shows that he doesnt really care because he kinds of blocks her out and doesnt really get the point to her project, but i think he begins to realize what shes doing after they go to the stores.

"like if you carried your lungs in a suitcase and opened it to breathe"

This says that people can't function without the feed, and they think higher of themselves since they have a feed. Its like when you think about life before internet or any sort of technology people say they couldnt live without it because what would you do if there was no youtube and such. In a different way people now a days are the same. Many people like in poorer countries don't have computers/internet so people tend to look down on the poor. The feed in the book is just technology.

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." This shows that this book is wayyy into the future. People dont just go to the moon to have fun, and it takes forever to get there and back. Also it shows that these kids have bank! Many people dont go place because they are to broke. Also they went outside of the U.S for break which many people wouldnt think about doing. Also they jus decided to go to the moon. Now-a-days people plan their break way ahead of time.

I think Titus is a shy guy. He doesnt show his emotions or have a care for whats going on. Compared to his friends he is just a regular teen. When i say regular i mean he doesnt just fit into one group of people. He has a variety of friends that most people wouldnt think hang out together. He is the only real thinker of the group. Even though the feed tells them about all this cool stuff he makes his own decison on what he wants.

Going to the moon isnt really what i'd do for spring break. This year i went to visit my sister in rochester (there was nothing else to do) Most people go to hot places like Florida, Mexico and California. Pretty much places where people can party, hang out on a beach and hook up with hot guys (or girls if thats what your into haha). Also people (groupie/stalkers) like to hang whever the celebs are.

I would jus like to say my dad makes tha bomest Sausages EVER!!!!

New!

So i jus did my blog i think this is gonna be horrible cuz of course i dnt blog and im not very technological.....if i misspell words jus sound it out and u'll get it....n.e whooooooooooooooo yea so im watching ni hao khilan its a cartoon dat like dora but for chinese its pretty AMAZING! hahaha no its really not...buttttttttttttttt im completly bored and i jus finished my last drivers ed behind tha wheel! finally i learned how to parallel park and im pretty dar good at it! hopefully i pass tha Test.....okay now this is starting to get long and stupid so byee : )