Author: Jenny

Tracing Persepolis: The Journey

After nights of hunched backs, black knuckles, and furious typing, I have completed my first draft of my project, Tracing Persepolis: A Journey.

My goal for this project was to get the idea of Marjane’s coming of age across– from fierce idealist, adamant on becoming the next Prophet, to unsure adolescent, torn between keeping the image her parents had of her or keeping the only friends-turned-family she has in Austria. I worried that it would take so long to write 750 words but the maximum word amount breezed by as I was reaching a thousand, to even 1500 words. After revisions, I hope my argument can become clear, cohesive, and characteristic of my work.

Here is David’s original post for our project.

Good luck!

Beautiful Movie

Although I do have my problems with this movie, I love Marjane’s sentimentality with her grandmother. Perhaps it was recently after her death when she produced the movie, but the main influence for Marjane in the movie was her grandmother. Maybe it’s just my take.

Marjane and Iran

I think this entire scene of Marjane in Iran is perfect. But they skipped around the details. I distinctly remember Marjane getting involved with that boy before college and then are dating him when in college. Maybe my memory is off? Either way, I am loving Marjane’s sassiness to the heads of the college. Even though they didn’t mention how her religion part of the test went and how honest she was about her views on Islam.

Marjane’s first real love

I really enjoyed Marjane’s creative take on being with that boy who cheated on her (he’s so irrelevant I already forgot his name), but the artistic take was gorgeous. Sucks that it didn’t last forever. I thought they left out the part where she sees all his flaws but they just went over that ha ha.

Tyroll?

While I know the nurse’s scene was not that big of a deal I wonder why they skipped through it so quickly. They never even depicted Marjane finally getting along with her roommate and visiting her “second family.” I thought that would have been nice.

Persepolis

“It would have been better to just go.”

Marjane is now at a point in her life where she is out of choices. With her scathing tongue and Islamic fundamentalism sweeping war-torn Iran, the Satrapi family makes a decision to get Marjane safely away from Iran and place her temporarily in Vienna, Austria with a family friend. Her parents seemed positive throughout her move, but Marjane had a creeping suspicion that this would be the last time she lived with her parents, even through endless reassurances that they would see her in six months time. In this turning point of the book, her parents tear up as she boards for Vienna, but seem strong and supportive with the decision they’ve made. One look back and Marjane’s mother has fainted, limp in the arms of her father and carried away like a child. This moment of weakness by her parents– who had seemed to be fearless protectors all her life– has shocked Marjane, leaving her with a terrible last image of her parents. This seems like the most climatic part of the book in the chapters we’ve read, acting as Marjane’s final exit from childhood and into a very adult adolescence.

A Visual Look at my Polisci Methods Class

I really enjoyed this Sunday Funnies segment but it wasn’t as easy as I imagined it would be. I’m not the most experienced artist but I find it funny how my scribbly cursive translates into such comical cartoons. The material was pretty straightforward so I won’t say it exactly helped me understand the lecture differently. I also wouldn’t say that I would do this in class, because it takes a lot of time to get the doodles– crude as they are– to my liking. Something I noticed was that most of the characters I drew were male, to my chagrin. I think I drew them male mostly because I just can’t doodle hair well, so I would avoid drawing women with beautiful, wispy hair. So anyway, I enjoyed my time with this assignment, so thank you Professor! Here’s a link back to his site where you can view our original project here. Enjoy! Sunday Funnies visual drawing 1Sunday Funnies visual drawing 2

“College Pondering”

Our first Sunday Funnies got me thinking about my friends, who are all in college on opposite sides of the country. Two are in California, north and south, another in Chicago, two others in Boston, and the rest are back in Florida. We’ve always been a very tight-knit group so our friendship struggles with the distance. Here is my type of “softer world” impersonation of triptychs. This is where we had our original inspiration, http://eng101s15.davidmorgen.org/2015/01/sunday-funnies-triptychs/Sunday Funnies 2

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