Hope you're enjoying Spring Break! For next week, be sure to finish Persepolis, reading the remaining chapters, "The Return" to "The End" (and use this time to catch up if you're behind!). I e-mailed everyone's paper comments back to them, so please let me know if you didn't receive an e-mail. Remember that you have all semester to revise either Paper #1 or #2 (and you'll have time to revise #3 as well, before long).
When we return, we'll have an in-class writing on Persepolis which might be about ONE of the following topics (so make sure you're familiar with them as you read). You DO NOT have to answer them now--they're for next week's classes!
* Why does Marjane fall into a deep depression upon returning to Iran? What kind of identity crisis does she experience once she's home and among family?
* Why does Marjane's boyfriend and grandmother act so differently to her lie about the man on the street?
* Even though the government regulates every aspect of men and women's lives, how does Marjane show us that most people remain 'free,' especially her and her friends? How do they rebel against the government without getting caught?
* Related to the above, why don't more people revolt and rebel against the government? What keeps the people so docile when they would love to overthrow the powers-that-be?
* Why would Satrapi claim that fundamentalist Islam is anti-Iranian? Why can the true spirit of the Iranian people (as she sees it) not be represented by such a repressive government?
* Why does she decide to divorce her husband and leave Iran for the second time, knowing that she might never return?
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