Persepolis #1

8) A lot of things prevent people from being completely free, the government , work, laws, religion and more. It all comes down to what strikes you the most, for me, it's a lot of things like family stress and a little more things, but in general, no one can really be free, but there are some certain times where you can experience freedom, like your first time to a movie without your parents or family, or maybe your first time at a restaurant and ordering something with your own money, for me, it was Subway. Marji and her family rebel agaisnt the rules by clrearly denying to wear veils in their homes, wearing jean jackets, having posters, hosting parties and going to protests, abd they try to live normal livcs by enjoying themselves, refusing to do things that just does not make sense.

5) I think the narratores voice is nice and appealing vecause it is easy to understand unlike some other books that i have read in the past. The part that i like the most about Marji's character is how she is entertaining, willing to tell about her life, and just kind of open to ideas, but the part that i don't like is how she can be really stubborn sometimes and how she just sometimes blurts stuff out sometimes when it isn't appropriate. Marji has affected my way of reading by giving reading autobiagraphy's a different a twist and kinda of adding visuals so you can connect what is really going on instead of just visualizing it.

14) By saying that 0ther have had it worse in their lives and have led harsher lives, while more than 80% of people in America have some much more freedom than Marji's grandpa, uncle, and her neighbors who were sent to jail because they protested against the beliefs and laws of their country, while we are able to do this without almost no fear. So we should cherish our lives along with our freedom in this country. This suggests that that we should be proud abd happy to live in this country because we have more freedom, and that our lives can be lived up to so much more do to our level of freedom, yet so many of us don't see this.

Visual Essay - Consumerism

The theme that i am going to talk about is consumerism. My pictures represents the things that we tend to spend money on, from clothes to food and cars. We spend a lot of money on things that we really do not need or that is even necessary(43). I start off my pictures with a cloud picture slowly taking over the sun and the sky to represent consumerism and how it slowly consumes us and everything in life by advertising, targeting certain people and group of people, and many other ways. As we start to go downwards, you can see that i have included a Walmart picture that shows the smiley face logo on top a human body with many arms taking money, wrecking things, grabbing people and many other things inside the picture. This picture represents the same thing as my cloud picture, the taking over of everything, but instead of representing everything, i solo singled out Walmart because most of us know that Walmart goes and takes out the small businesses in towns, then makes them go out of business. They make them go out of business with their advertisement and prices compared to the small businesses. All of these pictures just pretty much imply that we spend money on a lot of things that we really don't need, but want because they are the things that are in style or look nice. As to clothes that are most of my visual essay, i added my picture of a Mc Donald bag that i took to represent that we also spend money on excess food that we know is bad and not healthy for us, but we still buy it because it is more convenient, and cheap.
I can relate to this topic because i am a "victim" of consumerism. I spend money on things that i do not really need, but i still buy it anyways that i like or that i think that is in style. Slowly over time, i have developed into consumerism because it is only natural in our time, and especially from groups around my age to maybe groups in their 40's-50's. I developed into consumerism naturally, as i said before, because it's only a matter of time before consumerism was introduced into me, as i am at that age where i buy anything i desire. My feelings toward consumerism isn't strong because i know it's there, but i just don't really have a reaction towards it because maybe i'm just too young to really care what i buy or not.