1. To Kill a Mockingbird and Persepolis
... , a traditional prose fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel, explore the conflict between personal and public values of their respective main characters and intolerant societies using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. Lee and Satrapi show their main characters Scout and Marji growing up in respectively 1930's racially-segregated Alabama and 1980's post-revolutionary Iran, negotiating the ... of the maid to represent the presence of intolerant public values within their main characters personal family lives, despite their progressive natur...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate