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October 20, 2005
Persepolis part 2
I really liked the comic about the book Persepoils by Jennifer Camper. I agree with her and thought that how she described the book was pretty accurate. One particular part that I liked was when one character commented about there not being enough women making comics and the other character responded saying that women don't have what it takes to be cartoonists because they don't have wives to support them. I thought that was funny..hah just a random side note. But anyways, I thought that when Camper points out that she, the author of Persepolis, "really captures the way kids figure out the grown-up world slowly and clumsily and with humor and pain" is true. Marjane is a child growing up during a time where things kept changing and she did not fully understand right away, and the book reveals that but not in a boring way. When I first picked up the book to begin reading I was like oh man, I do not want to read this. But I really enjoyed it and like Christina said in class, you did not need to know the backround of Iran and what happened to understand the book. It really was a good read!
Posted by lcisnelson at October 20, 2005 04:17 PM
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Haha Rachel I agree with you about the part with the three women saying that women don't have what it takes to write comics...I thought that part was funny also! I also agree with what you and Christina said about not needing to know about the history of Iran, I think I actually blogged about that last week...but anyway yea it was very helpful seeing it from a child'spoint of view because we learned things as she learned them and it was not so complicated that we could not understand what was going on.
Posted by: Katie at October 20, 2005 09:48 PM