Geneva Week 3 Category 3: Literary Feature Hunt

On Page 139-141, the first panel shows a lot of symbolism. Because there is an actual background and setting, the image sends amessage of despair in a specific area and that is used to decipher the setting from one location to the next. This page represents a lot of grahic novel literary features, such as:

• Negative space
• Closure
• Moment to Moment
• Action to Action

The usual lack of descriptive images and specific scenery throughout the novel is emphasized differently on these pages. Marjane Satrapi's emphasis on her surroundings makes the scene more suspenseful and creates a rising action from panel to panel. Because the backgrounds are so different, the images drawn make the situation narrow to her home specifically to her mother. Usually, Satrapi refrains from using specific scenery or imagery when drawing, but on these panels, there is a use of specific locations, this makes it easier for the readers to move from location to location in the same hurried and worried feeling as Marjane is (assumingly feeling in the scene).

The large amounts of negative space leaves room for interpretatoin. This includes, the text ("faster! please hurry... [Satrapi, 139]) and the images (worry bubbles fraying from her veil on page 139 panel 3).

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The negative space