Persepolis entry 2

This was an interesting section to read and a bit difficult at parts. One interesting visual parallel happens on pages 29 and 51, the violence/torture sections. Both panels of the violence do not have borders. They're as if floating in free space. Both of them show horrible things going on those pages.

One of the written parallel is on pages 43 and 51 (these can also be seen a bit as contrasts). On page 43, Marjane's father says "Let's enjoy our new freedom," after the Shah's fall. But on page 53, we get stories from Marjane's parent's friends about prison. We have the one man saying "you remember the day they pulled out my nails? They have grown back since. But not in a normal way." And the part about the nerves in the feet. At first we have talks of new freedom and then we see these people who were treated horribly, tortured in prison. The contrast part is that Marjane's family was not affected by torture. They were well off. And then we see these tortured men. Satrapi even draws them gauntly and miserable.

The frames in this section are very interesting. I went a little bit in to it with the parallels, but I'd like to talk more about them. Satrapi dedicates big frames to important things like the violence and celebration. On page 42, the whole page is just one frame. And in that frame people are celebrating and are happy. That frame is supposed to focused that people are finally happy that the Shah has stepped down from power. They're...free. The words in the frame say, "The day he left, the country had the biggest celebration of it's entire history." This shows that celebration of freedom is important.