Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood
Identify and explain the theme motif and literacy devices in the Shabbat chapter 19
What evidence connect to the motif and what is the message about the motif
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What evidence connect to the motif and what is the message about the motif
This is only a short-answer space. I can't go through each literary device. In “The Shabbat,” Satrapi uses sparse graphical and textual diction to express the loneliness and impact of the violence of war. Though her neighborhood is bombed, Satrapi uses only one image of a bombed building. Instead, the graphic frames of the last pages of this chapter depict only Marjane and her mother against a blank white background. This represents the idea that the violence of war is a force that disconnects people from their community and exposes the darkness of a person’s own self. War and death have an intense personal dimension, and they can cause more than physical violence to a person. The last frame of the chapter, which is nothing but a blacked out box, is the author’s lowest point and a place from which she cannot fully return.