Geneva Week 6 Category 1: Class Act

On April 8th we had a very good in class discussion about new snippets. On page 250-251, I believe that this was brought up by Fion, the hollowed out building looks fairly similar to the skulls underneath the city. Perhaps, the martyrs of the city were meant to representthe hollowed out building which look like a towering stack of skull. This leads to the idea of the death of the city. The people end up 'sacrificing' their lives for their country and for their freedom. Although they say that the war was a good thng and a positive effect, the citizens are dying and the city is slowly dying, or decaying with that.
In the panel, Marjane Satrapi is looking at the poster which is juxtaposed by the hollow building. The building may represent the hollow obedience of the religion. The protagonist is looking at the city in a cycle: Marjane is looking at the nurse, who is looking at the martyr, who is looking at the decayed wall who is looking at Marjane. (are they looking forward, or hesitant to look back?)

As the citizaens decay, the city begins to decay. This can also result from the fact that if there are less citizens to work, then the employment rate depleats and the employers end up filing for bankruptcy. This is economic situation is fairly related to the current USA situation, where the economy is collapsing from the top down, and with banks filing for bankruptcy, there are less employers and less income.

I definately thought that this was a very interesting topic, and the idea of cycles...

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