Why does Satrapi call her book Persepolis instead of something like Growing Up in Iran?.Edward Nawotka, called Persepolis "one of the quirkiest, most entertaining memoirs in recent years." Dave Welch said it "expressed in deceptively simple black-and-white drawings the broken heart and crushed hope of a people." It earned an endorsement from leading American feminist Gloria Steinem.The book won two of Europe's biggest awards for comic books and graphic novels, the Angouleme International Comics Festival's Coup de Coeur award and the Prix du Lion from a comics association in Belgium. She also said she hoped to find a way to get the book to young Iranians, perhaps through the Internet, so that more of them could learn the truth about what happened in their country in the early 1980s.What does she want to tell young Iranians? "That is why I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just like other children." "If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less," she wrote on the Pantheon website.When the Iranian Revolution broke out, most people in the West only saw images of the revolutionary leaders, which did not reflect the lives of ordinary Iranians, she said. Satrapi said she hoped Persepolis would combat the negative images people had of her native country.She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war. Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novelist and illustrator.Marjane Satrapi From lsu.edu Born in 1969 in Iran She grew up in Tehran in a progressive family. The author indicates two motives for writing Persepolis. According to the introduction, what stereotypical image is Satrapi trying to dispel? The Americans overthrew the Iranian government in the 1950’s. The Iranians fought against Germany in World War II. Iran is the site of one of the great Ancient empires- the Persian Empire.
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