Persepolis+In+Class+Writing


 * // PERSEPOLIS //**** FORMAL ASSESSMENT: **


 * IN CLASS ESSAY **
 * Open Book **


 * Choose ONE of the essay topics below. You have the entire period to think, plan ****, **** write, and proofread. **

Be sure to use specific examples, properly cited, to answer your chosen question.


 * CHOICE #1: ** Satrapi’s drawings are in stark black and white, but how black and white is the world that her drawings depict? To what extent does Satrapi manage to convey complex experience in such simple, even childlike, drawings?


 * CHOICE #2: ** What are the roles for women in Iranian society as depicted in the book? How do Marjane and her mother and grandmother both play into and resist those roles?


 * CHOICE #3: ** Several times in Satrapi’s narrative, Marjane seems to hit bottom and decides to remake herself. How are these various new selves related to each other?