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Children, War and Growing Up: The impact of war has a negative impact on
children's minds as they are easily influenced. This can severely deteriorate a
child's metal and physical health which will affect their behaviour during
adolescence.
Setting and character development
After the Arabs completed the conquest of Egypt in 642, they started to
raid the Berber (Amazigh) territory to its west, which they called Bilād al-
Maghrib (“Lands of the West”) or simply the Maghrib. In 705 this region
became a province of the Muslim empire then ruled from Damascus by
the Umayyad caliphs (661–750).
THE TEXT AND THE
VISUAL
in imperialism there are britshers and the nazis who are
marching towards the persepolis in the aim to make the place
mordanised and introduce new industries and jobs for the
labours the visual in the image are clear that in short
imperialism in persepolis is bad as there are people who are
dressed in black the nazis and the british marching towards it
the arabs are shown to riding horses in a way they are conquering
land and are ready to rule the whole of the west
the texts in both of the pictures are ery samll compsred to the
images
What was interesting? and
what was politically
controversial?
In these chapters the most important thing A very politically controversial
to note is how Marjane's curiosity helps her topic has been explored in
in questioning things she does not
understand. Every piece of information
these texts. Shah wanted to
that she recieves about the revolution or create a republic but because
the history of her country and family makes of the offer from the
her think deep. Like when she finds out
Americans he got greedy and
that her grandfather was taken to prison
often and he was kept in a cell of water, she became the emperor. The
out of curiousness of how it felt sits in the present family was that of
bath for a really long time trying to imagine Marjane's grandfather. Shah
her grandfather's condition . Finding out
sold out the dream of making
that her grandfather was a prince was a
major turning point of her life because a republic for oil and that is
that's when she really found out about her how he became the emperor.
family's history.
How different would Marjane's life be
without some events
The author's life has been full of Without certain events like her
unique events just because of the uncle being in jail or getting to
fact that she was brought up know about her family history or
during a war. She has seen the revolution going on in her
death, destruction, religious country, I think she would have
repression and politics to its grown up to not have the
extreme. Marjane according to understandings of certain things
me had been matured way which can only be experienced in
before it was time for her to a war ridden household. She
know things. Having been would have no opinion about the
through war she has a unique politics in Iran or feminism or
point of view for everything. how much the people of Iran had
to suffer because of restrictions.
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“I finally understood what my
grandmother meant. If I wasn't
comfortable with myself, I would never
be comfortable.”
Marjane Satarapi
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