"Reviews frequently applaud Persepolis, especially through the figure of the winsome child at its center, for being a universal story-an approach to the book that uncomfortably subsumes the exotic "other" into the "us", erasing the ethic, cultural and class specificity of the book's narrative," (4).
From Chute- "Graphic Narrative as Whiteness"
"I didn't like to smoke, but I did it out of solidarity. At the time, to me, grass and heroin were the same thing," (192).
From Persepolis by Satrapi
Question: What is it about the universality of Persepolis that allows any reader, regardless of their geographical location, to appreciate it with full realization of the "other" becoming the "us"?
In Satrapi's Persepolis, the way in which events are explained allow any reader to immediately feel part of the text. Which is to say, the test itself appeals to a large majority of people. In the selection of Persepolis paired next to the quote from Chute's text, it is evident that Satrapi's ethnic, cultural and class boundaries are broken to meld together the "us" and "them". Satrapi talks about her experiences with dope (marijuana), which she perceives to be the same thing as dope (heroin) in her youth. This theme of drugs is universal that from hemisphere to hemisphere the universality is evident. Suddenly, Satrapi isn't just talking about her own childhood, she is talking about the reader's childhood, and through association the rest of the world's childhood.
In Satrapi's Persepolis, the way in which events are explained allow any reader to immediately feel part of the text. Which is to say, the test itself appeals to a large majority of people. In the selection of Persepolis paired next to the quote from Chute's text, it is evident that Satrapi's ethnic, cultural and class boundaries are broken to meld together the "us" and "them". Satrapi talks about her experiences with dope (marijuana), which she perceives to be the same thing as dope (heroin) in her youth. This theme of drugs is universal that from hemisphere to hemisphere the universality is evident. Suddenly, Satrapi isn't just talking about her own childhood, she is talking about the reader's childhood, and through association the rest of the world's childhood.
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