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October 19, 2005
Persepolis Review
Jennifer Camper approaches reviewing Persepolis in a very creative way, by using a comic to analyze a comic novel. By doing this she is able to use words to show the opinions that several different people have of the book, whether they are positive or negative. She is also able to incorporate people's thoughts with their facial expressions and gestures. This allows the reader of her critique to connect with the person who is sharing the opinion, because of their posture, clothing, and physical features.
Through the words in her comic critique. Camper emphasizes the difficulty of growing up in two seperate worlds, and the effects of progressivism and modernism. She also not only focuses on the perspective of women of the graphic novel, but she also mentions the opinions of men as well. For example, she shows in her comic that some men think that a cartoon-style book being published is almost an insult that says that information is being simplified too much to make people look dumb. Even the opinion of women not being able to be good cartoonists is shown. By placing these opinions in the comic Camper is able to address some of the issues raised in the book itself why analyzing it simultaneously.
This is such an effective to analyze a book, because both words and pictures can be observed.
--Yasmin
Posted by lcisperez at October 19, 2005 11:15 PM