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The Social identity of Marjane in the novel Persepolis is primarily a construct of outside influences. She is growing up in a chaotic environment that most people would run away from. However, her father and uncle seek out danger and answers and this seeps into her characteristics. She notices many differences between her and others…

It makes them easy manipulative and in some ways affects their further development. We can observe these processes in Prolepsis, on Manner’s example. We see an Iranian girl taking interest in western culture, doing different sorts of activities corresponding: partying, listening to pop and rock music, wearing Nikkei shoes and denim jacket, trying a cigarette,…

Another way to understand the concept of “within” is to examine how one character silences another character in a text. For instance, in the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the question arises of how secularists are silenced by Islamic Revolutionists. The novel opens with the chapter “The Veil,” set in Iran in 1980…