From the Paper: Holden is finding himself through the awkwardness and alienation of being a … As a … For instance, the stereotype of Muslim women being oppressed in an Islam country and being saved by a Western country is shown to be much more complicated than that. These images are thoughtfully presented and drawn out in the novel to show Marjane’s loss of innocence, her experience with social classes, and the large impact of religion in Marjane’s life. Later Marjane Satrapi’s establish her book “Persepolis”. This style is meant to represent a childlike understanding of the world since the novel follows Satrapi's own childhood. Holden Caulfield embarks on an odyssey of finding himself that is akin to Marji (i.e. The environment was unpleasant. The author of Persepolis” Marjane Satrapi was born during the Islamic revolution, where things were in an extreme condition compared to condition of our modern society. The Complete Persepolis is a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi that describes the author’s childhood experience in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and her early adulthood after she graduates high school in Austria and returns to Iran. Satrapi draws in a minimalist style: black and white, often only six to eight panels on a page. The use of these images is effectively presented in Marjane Satrapi’s exquisitely presented novel, Persepolis. There are others that are separated from the group, but no one as much as Crooks and Curley's wife. This is followed by an investigation of these phenomena and their meaning in Persepolis, analysing themes which focus on the protagonist’s experience such as cultural inequalities, the sense of alienation, existential crises and the meaning of language. Persepolis brings a particular graphic style to the autobiographical narrative. Crooks is black, and people in the 1930’s were racist. However, the characterization of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in The Rye is similar to Marji’s in Persepolis. Persepolis is a story about Marjane Satrapi, her family, her friends, and the people she knows—and also about the nation of Iran. Persepolis is important to me as Satrapi is able to break the single story by showing how complex and intertwined everything is. The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Children, War, and Growing Up appears in each section of Persepolis. The ranchers actively shunned him and Crooks is left alone. The paper also contends, that while Persepolis provides more questions than answers for the reader, one thing remains clear throughout Satrapi's story - that her persistent feelings of alienation are driven by colonialism. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Persepolis, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. And the alienation that … They are … Theme Of Alienation In Of Mice And Men. Violent acts, torturing, deaths, and forceful actions surrounded her. Persepolis gives a detailed exploration of neo-colonisation and white supremacy, the conflation of modernism with westernism, and people in countries with a largely conservative ideology looking to the west and romanticizing ‘modern values’. Set in a modern city ripe with conflict and contradiction, Satrapi plays with notions of alienation, isolation, and displacement in Persepolis.