Geneva Week 4 Category 1: Class Act

On April 2, 2009 the class participated in a grand speed-snippet session.
We focussed on the DP IOC rubric: 15mins of prep, 5-7mins of presentations, 2mins of feedback followed by a switch of partner presentors.
During this time, Mr.McGuigan was editing through our Jigsaw writing pieces or our critical perspective reports (700-1000 words).

My two partners were arpreet and smokey.
Arpreet:
(update of week 1 snippets) Page 10 Panel 5 is a Simile depicting a 2D version of the text of panel 4. the image of piles of people ontop of a fallen multiperson bike links to many wars, that deal with those exact situations. In the 1864 American Civil War based film Glory, after every battle, the soldiers were piled on top of wagons and trucks to be burried. The fact that the people are already dead and the fallen bike create a universal image of the ransacked revolution.
The lack of background makes the image very universal. The overall detail in the image creates a simplicity that reflects any bloody revolution. Any revolution functions like a machine and Satrapi uses a bicycle as an example mechanism of a revolution. The choice of a bike is certainly a child influenced machine, because the connection between the transportation is simple and practically their only legal option of getting around (other than walking). There is also a juxtaposition of the images in panels 3 and 4 in comparison with panel 5. The balance of the shading compares the heavy explanations and images. The simile is balanced by the yin yang-like balance of the image and the discussion of the characters.
Smokey:
Page 154 with no panel is an image of no images. Written with the purpose of universality, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi uses this page of blank space as a message and mind time-travelling gutter. This is a gutter of the novel and allows the readers to makethe connection from page 153 to 155. As a result of the large gap, the blank space is time for Marjane to extend her maturity and change moments. Page 155 is less than a few months later, however, because her family is in a completely different country from her, she is forced to `grow up`and provide for herself. The last word used on Page 153 is `go` and that explains and puts our minds on a plane using the blank space to Austria.
For the most part, the change in setting, from Iran to Austria, divides the comics in which they were originally sold and written in. She goes away to another country to get away from religion and war. Only to enter a new reltiong that she doesn`t necissarily believe in either, and fight a war against herself.
Combination of their feedback:

• Talk as if i were talking to a recorder
• Explain the images
• Introduce the author and the text
• Reflect on motifs and themes
• Reflect on perspective papers (if lacking iin material)
• Keep paragraphs circular (come back to the main idea)

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