Suheir Hammad & Marjane Satrapi on War

Assignment: Listen to Suheir Hammad's Ted Talk again and write down key lines that struck you (these are quotes from her poetry) and why. Also, write about the connection between Suheir's ideas and Marjane's in Persepolis. Lastly write about what struck you about Persepolis and Suheir's poetry.

"Love will never find me"

"Woman being disregarded and mistreated"

"Leaving behind clusterbombs and dyfective landmines"

All these lines struck me because they all tie in to Marjane's life and how she lived daily. In Austria, in Vienna, and in Tehran. These are important facts because this was an average day in the life and this is what she dealt with. Loving someone, not loving someone, having someone that loves you, and someone and could care less about you. Being stopped by the Revolution Guardians, watching bombs drop on their home town. She had the same idea as Suheir. Yet she pushed on and lived through every day, with unfair rules.

What struck me about the poem and Persepolis is that they wanted equality. For example, in the beginning of the book, Marjane wanted to be a prophet and change everything so that life will be equal for everyone. In the poem, she talked about how everyone was being bombed and unequal and how this shouldn't be the way of life. All and all, they both shared the same thoughts and ideas and how things should be changed and what society is and how bad it really is from another person's point of view.

Part 2

How I think Suheir Hammad described revolution and revolutions and war is, well, hell. She describes discrimination as harsh and cruel, everyone looks at them like they're all terrorists and people don't take a second look, don't know them, that they're indifferent and they're all just normal people like you and me. In war, like I stated in part one, there are bombs in every street just waiting to go off. There are riots and innocent people are getting hurt everyday where they both come from.

Marjane Satrapi has the same concept. When she was once asked where she came from, she claimed she was from France, Paris, to avoid discrimination from where she was from. When a bomb hit the Babalevi's house in the book/movie, she was scared and scarred from this event and was afraid from then onward. The revolution that she went through was long and horrible. but in the beginning, no one was happy. In the end, no one was happy. she went through a long and horrible event but pushed on through anyways.

They both went through false criticisms and labeling, war and death. but in the end, they are still just like us. we have bad days, where our boy/girlfriend breaks up with us and you had to walk home in the rain, fashion disasters, and wondering what we're gonna wear tomorrow. But these type's of people wonder if they're gonna live to the next day and their bad days are bombs falling and killing their friends. Think about these people if you ever have a "bad day".