Persepolis/Creative Project

1.)I felt that Satrapi's use of the graphic novel added to the humanness of her story. When reading an auto-biographical text that contains intense subject material , it is easy to come up with images of the story from a world far removed from your own. By the use of a comic book like presentation, the innocence, as well as the brutal aspects of the events were amplified. Kind of like how Quentin Tarantino always uses goofy up-beat surf rock when people are being violently tortured. It produces a very shocking but effective atmosphere.

2.) My creative project will probably take the form of a Hunter S. Thompson-esk stream of consciousness type piece of writing. Although I'm not entirely certain.

-Sam Rosenzweig