Persepolis Blog Response

Prompt 1: The genre that Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, used to write her autobiography is so popular probably because of the pictures. With the luxury of pictures included in a piece of writing, the reader/s are allowed a better perspective on what is being said, or rather, what the author envisioned the story to be. For example, in the chapter "The Heroes", the images allow me to understand the text better, and get a better sense of the things that the "heroes" of the chapter had to go through. Although the visuals are simple in nature, they add a better understanding to the text, that a memoir without pictures would not have.
I personally have not read other graphic memoirs, although would like to... If I were to put this type of writing into a certain category, I would put it with memoirs, but with the added bonus of pictures.
Prompt 2: I believe that a true story that is not altered is a more powerful piece of work than a fictional story. I say this because the events that transpired were real, which gives the reader an idea of different things that have happened in the world. For instance, when something that actually happened, such as massacres mentioned on page 40, the reader realizes the severity of it. If it was fiction, the reader would not pay as much attention to something like that. I have read other memoirs, such as Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, by Peg Kehret. I noticed that both had some sort of struggle that the narrator or author of the book had in their lives.
Prompt 7: Ordinary citizens enjoyed life by making things funny, or not serious. For example, on page 97, the girls of the school decorated their classroom with toilet paper instead of banners and streamers. The girls enjoyed the things they had to do by doing them in a different, more fun way. Also, earlier, some children were having a hell of a time laughing at the fact that beans make people fart... What made me laugh you ask? Hmm... nothing! He he! Just kidding... The silly things that the people in the story would say, such as "poopoo" made me giggle alittle. Some of the pictures are of people with awkward expressions, which add comic relief too. These things tie into the story because they are essentially "down time" from the extreme events in the story.