LABORATORY WORK: INFERRING AND RESPONDING NAME: ELYSA RATNA ASTUTI NPM : 180410080044 CLASS :A PERSEPOLIS This film

titles Persepolis, which is the ancient capital of Persian Emperor. The story tells about Marjane Satrapis autobiography. It starts when Marjane Satrapi is in an airport, she wants to go back to Iran but she cant. Then she stays in the airport, sitting down to smoke a cigarette. While she smokes, she remembers about her childhood in Iran. It was in 1978, when she was 9 years old. She lives in Teheran with her family. When a child, she believes that she will be the last prophet in the galaxy. She makes five rules for a future prophet to behave, that are, first everyone must behave well, second everyone must keep their words, third everyone must do good, fourth the poor must all eat a roasted chicken every day, fifth old women will never suffer again. Marjane and her family go to the airport to pick up her sister, Nioucha. She has just arrived from France, Marjane is glad to see her. Marjane asks her a lot of things like how Paris was, Bruce Lee, and the Eiffel tower. Marjane loves France and she is a fan of Bruce Lee. The Satrapi hold a family gathering, they talk about the politics. A few days later, many people outside do demonstration to dethrone the Shah of Iran and so does her middle-class family participating in rallies and protests with high hopes for a better society. One day Marjane's Uncle, Anoush arrives to have dinner with the family and catch with them after recently being released from prison. Her uncle will tell about his story in the past if she promises to put on her pajamas and goes to bed. She regards her uncle as her hero. Before she goes to sleep, her uncle gives her a swan that made of bread. He made it when he was in the prison. During this time all political enemies ceased fighting and elections for a new leading power commenced. Unfortunately, the hopes of the family are profoundly disappointed when Islamic Fundamentalists win the elections and force Iranian society into its own kind of repressive state. Soon there are new laws that make things worse for the Iranian people, such as forcing women to dress modestly, including wearing the veils, and then the government officials are re-arresting and executing Anoush for his political beliefs. A year after revolution, the Iran-Iraq war breaks out and Marjane sees for herself the horrors or death and destruction. The Iranian government begins implementing blatant laws that create ridiculous injustices like having a party, drinking the alcohol, in essence everything that related with Western. As she grows up, Marjane refuses to stay out of trouble, secretly buying Western heavy metal music on the black market, wearing unorthodox

clothing such as a denim jacket, celebrating punk rock and other Western music sensations like Michael Jackson, Iron Maiden. Because of her outspokenness, Marjane's parents are afraid if Marjane will be arrested. So her parents send her to a school in Vienna, Austria where she could have safety and plenty. She is placed in a Christian boarding school when she arrives and soon finds herself on edge with the discriminatory and judgmental nuns that reside there. Marjane does make new friends, they are Momo, Oliver, Thierry, and Hawa then she joins the Hippie people but she feels intolerably isolated in a foreign land surrounded by annoying people who make her feel ashamed of being Iranian because many people there think that Iranian have no manner. Finally, she decides to leave that place. She goes from place to place seeking residence; she becomes homelessness where she nearly dies of bronchitis before she is rescued off the streets. Marjane eventually recovers and returns to Iran in 1993 with her family's permission. After she arrives at home, she spends her time in front of television for days on end, doing nothing to advance her life. Then Marjane goes to see a psychiatrist, she tells about everything in her mind. The psychiatrist gives her some pills but the pills just make her become miserable. In a dream God appears before her to remind her of what is important and encourage her to go on with living. She bounces back with renewed determination and begins enjoying life again. She attends university classes, goes to parties, and even enters a relationship with a fellow student. Afterwards when she is twenty one, she gets married. She is marrying her boyfriend to avoid the police. Eventually after three years her marriage, she divorce, the family decides that Marjane must leave the country again, and this time permanently. Marjane agrees, and her grandmother dies soon after her departure. Back to the present day, Marjane once again cannot return to Iran, and she takes a taxi from the airport. When the driver asks where she is from, she sighs, "Iran". The last memory that she has is of her grandmother telling her how she placed jasmine in her brassiere to allow her to smell lovely every day.

THE AUTHOR OF PERSEPOLIS - MARJANE SATRAPI Marjane Satrapi is the author of Persepolis. From the source that I have got, she was born on November 22, 1969. She grew up in Teheran in a little family which is involved in communist movement in Iran prior to the Iran Revolution. Her great-grandfather is descendent of Nasser al-Din Shah, the king and Shah of Persia. Her nationality is Iranian and French. She is an artist and a writer. She began her career in earnest when she met David B., a

French comics artist. At her earliest works, she still adopted Davids style. Then she began famous worldwide because of her autobiographically novels, Persepolis and Persepolis 2 which tell her childhood in Iran and adolescence in Europe. She got a lot awards from her works. Now, she lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of the childrens books. MY OPINION ABOUT THIS FILM I personally think this film is a unique cartoon film, no wonder why this film can get a lot of awards but this cartoon is not suitable for children to watch because some scenes show the violence, and the story itself is hard for children to understand. This is an autobiographical account. This story was
told from the perspective of a child gives life to events most young adults only read about briefly in history books. Marjane Satrapi writes her memories of being raised in Iran during the rise of the Islamic Revolution into an illustration in a comic book. There are a few things that I get from this story, that are, at that era in Iran party was forbidden so people held a party in secret and wine is illegal, men and women are separated and the women forced to wear the veil, popular rock music and wear sneakers symbolize opposition to regime if you try to used or showed it, it meant that you were ready to get the punishment that was the consequences. The government looks that they want to civilize all the society with all their strict rules. The Satrapi always struggle for the freedom of the homeland. So, no wonder if the Satrapi keep fight to get the freedom, we can imagine how can the freedom people live with the rules that restrict everything which they want to do? That is maybe one of Marjanes reason why she wanted to stay in France, because as I know France is a freedom country. In an Introduction to Persepolis, the author discusses the changes in her home country following the overthrow of the Shah. Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As I said before Persepolis, the graphic memoir, takes its title from Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, located in modernday Iran.