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Persepolis: เรียนจากคำถาม


รู้มั้ยเธอ ที่ Carleton College จัดให้มีการอภิปรายเกี่ยวกับเรื่องแพร์ซโพลิส (Persepolis) นะ รายละเอียดก็อย่างที่ฉัน cut & paste มานี่แหละ เธอลองอ่านแล้วคิดตามคำถามทั้งสิบแล้วมาคุยกับฉันมั้ยล่ะ

Carleton College
Common Reading Fall 2006


On Thursday, September 8, 2006 you will participate in the eighteenth annual Common Reading Convocation and discussion at Carleton. Faculty, staff, students and alumni members of the community will come together to engage in meaningful dialogue about this year’s selection, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis 2. To help you prepare for this experience, we offer the following questions for your consideration. In addition, we invite you to think about what questions you may wish to bring to the discussion.


1) What difference does it make that this story is told in black and white, in graphic novel (comic strip) format?

2) Marji's father says, "As long as there is oil in the Middle East, we will never have peace." Do you think he is right? What would one need to know in order to have an informed opinion about this?

3) One of Satrapi's goals in writing Persepolis is to show that there is more to the country that "fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism." Does Satrapi accomplish her goal? What do you learn about Iran that you didn't know?

4) How is Persepolis a typical coming of age story? How, if at all, are Marji's experiences with drugs, depression and homelessness in Austria critical to her becoming the "liberated woman" she sets out to become?

5) How do you cope when there is conflict between what you have been taught by
parents, religion and/or society and what you know, internally, to be the truth? To what extent is the framing of this question peculiarly "western" (and how, if at all, does that matter)?

6) Why does Satrapi title her work Persepolis?

7) Revolution is an important theme of this work. How, on the basis of Persepolis, would you distinguish a good revolutionary from a bad revolutionary?

8) Persepolis is a story filled with stories. What roles do stories play in Marji's life? In your life?

9) Marji has a complicated, shifting relationship with her parents. What are their expectations for her and how - if at all - do these expectations shape her? How about you? Does your family have expectations that seem to shape you?

10) How does Marji seek meaning in her life? What links are there, if any, between education and finding meaning in life for her? For you? What sustains her spiritually? What sustains you?

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