Quotes+and+such

Caitlyn-  **Literary elements:** Conflict and Imagery  **Literary sub-elements:** Conflict- Man vs. Unknown, Man vs. Self Imagery- Situational irony, Onomatopoeia **1.** “But she’s the one who told us the Shah was chosen by God” (44) **2.** “‘ ‘Don’t worry. Everyone who left will come back. They’re just afraid of change.’” (64) **3.** “The key to paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with their keys around their necks.” (102) **4.** “I found myself with the newborn baby we had been celebrating in my arms. Her mother had already abandoned her.” (107) **5.** “How many times did I say to my wife, ‘Come on, let’s join him.’ She didn’t want to. She invoked her country, her family, etc, etc.” (118) **6.** “Now that Tehran was under attack, many fled. The city was deserted. As for us, we stayed. Not just out of fatalism. If there was to be a future in my parents’ eyes, that future was linked to my french education. And Tehran was the only place i could get it.” (137) **7.** "Let's go children, oh the heart!" **8.** "'Oh, Satrapi!"
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Payton- **Literary elements:** Syntax and Imagery **Literary sub-elements:** punctuation, sentence structure, word choice and connotation

**Quotes:** **1. "**Whipped" (51) **8.** “I decided to go home. I got a false passport and disguised myself. (60) **9.** I let her stay in my basement.” (123) **10.** "Khorso found his house ransacked...Fled across the mountains to turkey...and sought asylum with his brother in Sweden.” (125) 11. Maybe we should leave too...(64)
 * 2. ** "Burned" (51)
 * 3. ** "Cut" (52)
 * 4. ** "Attacked them" (14)
 * 5. ** "Human guinea pigs" (122)
 * 6. ** "Drowned" (65)
 * 7. ** "They were called "scubs" and Tehran became their target (136)

__ Background: __ I am talking about the Iran’s religious (religious text) Iran is a patriarch society Iran revolution

Ricki- **Literary elements:** Conflict and Details **Literary sub-elements:** Man v. society and man v. man, Allusion and symbols

**Quotes:** **1.** " Children tear out all the photos of the Shah from your books." (44) **2.** " To enlighten me they bought books." (12) **3.** "First thing after they got to Istanbul, they went to buy posters...I wonder how we're going to get past customs!" (127) **4.** "I put my posters up in my room. I put my 1983 Nikes on... and my denim jacket with the Michael Jackson button." (130) **5.**"Because our maid did not eat with us. Because my father had a Cadillac." (6)
 * 6. ** "The reason for my shame and for the revolution was the same: the difference between social classes." (33)
 * 7. ** "Better to have no students than to educate future imperialists. Thus the universities were closed for two years." (73)
 * 8. ** "You must understand that their love was impossible...Because in this country you must stay within your own social class." (37)

April:
 * Literary elements: ** Characterization and (either Imagery or Syntax)
 * Literary sub-elements: ** Direct characterization and Indirect characterization. Pragmatographic and Paradigm.

14. "'In the name of the dead million, we'll teach. Ramin a good lession. I have an idea...' My idea was to put nails between our fingers like american brass knuckles and to attack Ramin." (45) 15. "Everywhere in the streets there were demonstratiors for and against the veil. At one of the demonstrations, a German journalist took a photo of my mother." (5). 16. "That incident made my mother sick for several days. And so to protect woment from all the potential rapists, they decreed that wearing the veil was obligatory." (74).
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 * 1.** "'What do you want to be when you grow up?' 'I'll be a prophet'" (8).
 * 2.** "'I want to come with you tomorrow!' 'Where?' 'To demonstrate on the street! I am sick and tired of doing it in the garden.' 'It is very dangerous. They shoot people!' 'For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it.' 'You can participate later on.' 'Sure, sure! When it's all over'" (17).
 * 3.** "'I am so happy that there is finally a revolution because the shah...' 'I'm hungry!' 'I bought you some books. You will see why the people are revolting.' 'She won't tell me about grandpa'" (28).
 * 4.** "'Maybe Sadat welcomed the Shah because his first wife was Egyptian.' 'Surely not! Politics and sentiment don't mix'" (43).
 * 5.** "'So that's what you want, to nail Ramin? Get into the car, I have a better solution.' 'Really? What's that?...'I'll let it go this time. But don't do it again.' 'But mom, Ramin's father killed...' 'I know. His father did it. But it's not Ramin's fault. Anyway it is not for you and me to do justice. I'd even say we have to learn to forgive'" (45-46).
 * 6.** "'Don't you know that when they keep saying someone is on a trip it really means he is dead? At least that was the case with my grandpa.' ... 'Go to your room and stay there!' 'Nobody will accept the truth'" (48).
 * 7.** "'Don't cry darling. They will pay for what they have done.' 'But I thought one should forgive.' 'Bad people are dangerous but forgiving them is too. Don't worry, there is justice on Earth'" (53).
 * 8.** "Sometimes I even told them my opinion... 'On TV they say that 99.99% of the population voted for the Islamic Republic.' 'Did you hear that, Anoosh? Do you realize how ignorant our people are? The elections were faked and they believe the results: 99.99%!! As for me, I don't know a single person who voted for the Islamic Republic. Where did that figure come from? From their asses, that's where!' 'But it's not my fault! It's the TV!! Boo Hoo!!!' 'Calm down Eby, she's just a child who repeats what she hears!'"(62).
 * 9.** "It was the first time I'd seen fighter jets... 'Too much! It's our army flying!' 'I don't think so. Those are probably Iraqis.' 'What? Why do you say that???' 'Because they don't look like our F-14s!' ... 'As usual, my dad was right...'" (80-84).
 * 10.** "I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor. 'If you're still wearing jewelry tomorrow...' 'Yeah, I know!' And the next day... 'Let me see your wrist.' 'What for?' 'Let me see it, I'm telling you.' 'With all the jewelry you steal from us, you must be making a pile of money.' 'What happened?' 'Marji hit the principal' 'She's finished!' 'Excuse me! I didn't mean it!' 'Strapi, you're expelled!'" (143).
 * 11.** "'My uncle was imprisoned by the Shah's regime, but it was the Islamic Regime that ordered his execution. You say that we don't have political prisoners anymore. But we've gone from 3000 prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under your regime. How dare you lie to us like that?'" (144).
 * 12.** "'Your mother and I have decided to send you to Austria" (143).
 * 13.** "'You've got to go now. Don't forget who you are and where you come from'" (152).

__Background:__ - Relationship between Persepolis (reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire) and the Islamic Revolution? -//__**the Islamic Revolution, is this what Payton is talking about?**__//

"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people." - Marjane Satrapi
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Chinese Proverb "One picture is worth ten thousand words."