Arpreet's Week 6: Class Act

You watch one suffering in a book and you feel better. This is called CATHARSIS.
Honestly, I think that this idea is not present because usually when I see one suffering either in a book or in real life, I feel their pain and I wish I could just go and help them. Many people do believe in this idea but I understand how it is possible though.

- Arpreet

Arpreet's Week 6: Snippet

This week's snippet is on page 328- 329. The last panel seems to be very different compared to the ones before that because the faces of Reza and Marjane seem to be shaded half white and the half black. When the characters are coloured half white and half black, I believe that this means that Marjane is conflicted with a problem. This panel also shows that this religious project has broughten Marjane and her husband back together because they had to put many of their conflicts behind them to finish this project.
Religion enables Marjane to explore more due to her being Muslim and also doing this project was done because Marjane has had enough of the bickering and she has had just about enough of it.

- Arpreet

Arpreet's Class Act: Week 5

I learnt, with my conference with Mr. McGuigan, that spending your time wisely during class and at home is evident for doing well in school.

- Arpreet

Class Act: Arpreet's Week 4

Well yesterday, March 30, 2009, Mr. McGuigan was quite pleased with how engaged everyone in his class was. We talked about 2 snippets in particular, 1 on page 169 and 1 on page 185. We talked mainly about OUTSIDERS and whether this theme is reoccurring in this book.

Arpreet's Week 4: Snippet

Well today we had a great discussion about a panel in Persepolis. It is the 2nd panel on page 169. First of all, the street is deserted. Marjane seems to be somewhat blending in with the street because many of her features are not complete, such as, he scarf is not completely lined properly and her second leg is not shown at all. The text that is displayed in the panel supports the idea of desertion. Marjane feels that she will be deserted just like the street is currently. In a way, she is the street.

- Arpreet

Snippets: Arpreet's Week 3

This week’s snippet is on page 181 and is the last panel. The characters in this panel have a lack of detail to them. This represents that these characters can be any one of us.
The lines that are being displayed on this panel seem to so show that this can be a dream; Marjane is the most likely character that could be dreaming because in the last panel, Marjane seems to be dozing off.
This panel also shows a literary feature which is a metaphor. The picture describes what is going on.

- Arpreet

Class Act: Arpreet's Week (3)

Today we had an amazing class on semicolons and colons. It's amazing how much of an impact a semicolon has on one's writing. It has the power to make one's writing stronger, is used appropriately; however, if used incorrectly, it can ruin your writing.

Mr. McGuigan made a tremendous amount of effort to clarify any misunderstandings between a semicolon and a colon and i believe he did an excellent job.

- Arpreet

Snippets -Lucy's Week②

I found the picture on Pg.71 very interesting, and I have said many of my ideas in the class already. First of all, because Marji's uncle got executed, Marji was really upset, and she thought it was God's fault. She praied to God for her uncle and trusted God, but God didn't save her uncle. Marji was mad at him and said "never want to see him again!" Since she doesn't have a religion, she is lost in the space without a begining and ending. As we can see, the sun above Marji's head is so small, but before, every time the sun that appears is really big; therefore, I think the sun presents God, so that means God is not that important to her any more. However, I said about the color in last week snippet. Although the world is all black, Marji is still white, God is still white, the stars(I think they present their parents and friends) are still white.

-Lucy

Literary Features Hunt -Arpreet's Week①

Hyperbole

On Pg.15, the second panel is a hyperbole. The theatre is on fire, and Marji draws the death as ghosts, but as you can see, their faces all show surprise and sadness, and they are crazily running to exit. I think that is a hyperbole.

-Arpreet

Class Act -Lucy's Week①

Through Ms. Brownrigg's speech, I have known more about graphic novels especially how graphs and the gutters show the meanings. I understand that graphs is more important in graphic novels, and there are many forms to show one scene.

-Lucy

Literary Features Hunt -Lucy's Week①

Metaphor

On pg.22, the picture that I mentioned in my snippets week one shows metaphor. Since the king and God are not the sun and the lion, Marji presents them in the forms of the sun and lion, so that gives them different personalities just by putting them in different objects. Therefore, I think it is a metaphor.

-Lucy

Feedbacks -Lucy's Week①

I like Fion's Literary Features Hunt on Irony for pg.13, where God and Marx face-to-face. Fion says that they are oranges and apples, which are not comparable. However, I think there are some similarities between them. They are extrems. Christianity presents freedom, but communism are controlled. The similarity is that whatever it's good or bad, they both have followers. That is why I think they can be face-to-face. They are same but different.

-Lucy

Snippets -Lucy's Week①

I found this picture on pg.22 is very interesting. The sun up in the corner is white, which presents the good side. The lion down there got his face surrounded by the shape of the sun, and it's black, so he presents the bad side. Marjane's grandpa works for the king which is on the dark side; therefore he's crown and clothes are black. The elephant works for the king as well, so it's black, too. However, her grandpa is on the good side, but works for the bad side, so he is surrounded by the black and white parttern. And the houses and trees are all controlled by the king, so they are black, too. The sun and the king are both watching Marji's grandpa, but the sun is shining to reform him, and the king is a lion with a knife to threat him. I think it's a interesting and meaningful picture, although there is no text.

-Lucy

Snippets -Arpreet's Week①

The three transitions between the panels on page 9 are steady and go unnoticed. However, Megan pointed out that in the first panel there are 2 scopes of ice cream, in the second panel there is one scoop of ice cream; however, in the last panel there are no scoops of ice cream.

I found this to be very interesting because this comes back to comment that was stated during class by Mr. McGuigan that the images are just as important as the text if not more.

The panel transition on page 9 is over a short period of time because the first panel, the family is walking, the second panel the girl, Marji, is the centre of attention and the third panel is that the family has stopped to talk to their little girl, Marji. However, after the third panel, Marji is already in bed talking to her friend, God. The panel transition that took place between the third and fourth panel was over duration of time.

- Arpreet

Feedback -Arpreet's Week①

Mr. McGuigan made a very clear point in class. He pointed out to the class that the pictures within the panels are just as important as the text. Sometimes, the picture has more to say than the words.
This comment by stated by Mr. McGuigan was very important because before that i would have only read the text and barely looked at the picture that is being portrayed; however, now I can read and analysis the picture to its fullest extent. This was a remarkable statement stated by Mr. McGuigan and also a very important one as well.

- Arpreet

Class Act -Arpreet's Week①

I must remember that reading the images is just as important as reading the text.

- Arpreet

God & Marjane