Monday, August 9, 2010

8/9/2010 Blog Post

On thursday we talked about our muse's. What do you think is the muse of the character in the book you are reading?

13 comments:

  1. I think that Marjane’s muse in Persepolis would be her family. I think that she is influenced most by her family and helping them out by standing up for what she believes in. Growing up during the time that she did really made her family oriented and more caring of her family. When the book first starts out she says she wants to be a “profit” and wants to help people. When her grandmother asks, “Come here Marj! Help me stand up. Don’t worry soon you won’t have any more pain. You’ll see (6)”. She wants to help her family most and I think that’s what influences her the most.

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  2. The muse for the protagonist in Persepolis, Marjane, is the actual events and plot of the story. All the results and occurrences happening from and during the war is Marjane’s muse. It inspires the character in the book to believe to try to achieve the position of a prophet. A job that although is considered obsolete and irrelevant in their time era, she still feels this is the greatest way she can make an impact of change in such a time of bleakness. We can go even further into analysis of the story and the events surrounding the plot to even say it not only inspired the protagonist in the story but the author, Ms.Satarapi, as well. These events are a recall from her past experiences as a child in Iran during the revolution. These are actually the events that were probably the muse to writing the complete graphic novel for The Complete Persepolis.

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  3. I first feel that the muse of the book is mark. He inspires the inmates to do better and to come out their shell. He opens the inmates up to bring their minds out of the walls of the jail. The second thing I think that inspires the inmates is seeing their selves out. Once they see what they could be doing instead of being inside I feel helps them get through being in jail and that’s what keeps them going.

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  4. I personally believe that the characters inspiration could be potentionaly the students, because that may be his drive to want to teach juveniles. He may have a strong and genuine passion to helping teenagers in juveniles.

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  5. The muse of Mark in True Notebook is that he wants to inspire his students so that they can really read and write and how he can really help them out. Mark wants them to write what they want to write and express how they feel. He wants to help them speak out loud and tell him and his other students what they wrote and how they really feel inside their cell. Mark want to hear about their past and how there life was before they got into the juvenile hall and how their life is now in the juvenile hall. He comes there every Wednesday and Saturday because he believes in them and doesn’t want them to stop writing. He even come there when everyone is on lock down and tries his hardest to get his students out and he gets most of his students out. He wants them to write and not talk to each other about what was going on in the lock down. Mark really cares about his students and wants to help them and get some education when they are still lock up in this juvenile hall.

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  6. Marjane’s muse would most likely be her uncle Anoosh at this time. When her uncle came into her life she was excited and fascinated by him. He was released from prison and at that time most people that were in prison were political prisoners. So naturally her need to gloat about a family hero was fulfilled. He also was an educated and patient man, so his kindness and willingness to teach marjane only made her fonder of him. Any questions she had he was willing to give her an in-depth and educated answer on. These were the kind of answers that she wanted from people all along. So to her Anoosh was a great mentor. Someone that treated her like the growing young that mind she is. Someone who wouldn’t exclude her for being a child.

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  7. In the text True Notebooks I believe that the juvenile characters muse is Mark. I believe that Mark is there muse because they actually have someone that has taken the time to listen to them. I also feel that Mark is inspiring them to become writers and able to express their thoughts. I believe that Mark may turn out to be there role model.

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  8. Marjane’s muse I would say is her parents, for the reason of how much she loves and cares for them in addition to what they believe in plus stand for. I believe the only reason she is so patriotic is because the influence her parents have on her. If they were not so politically driven Marjane wouldn’t really care all that much for the war. She wants more then everything to be a larger part of the revolution but her parents don’t want her to get involved for the fear she might get hurt or even killed. The toll war is taking on her parents and their involvement in it all I also think is a driving force for Marjane’s political passion because she doesn’t want to see her parents suffer or be stressed anymore. She has met a lot of influential people because of her parents part in the revolution, people she wouldn’t normally look up to if the circumstances weren’t the way they are.

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  9. I believe that in the book “True Notebooks” that Mark is the muse to some of the inmates because he made them feel like they can do better and achieve the impossible. Mark was a man of sincere loving and affection. He made the inmates feel like can make a difference and become better than they are now. Mark cared deeply about them and paid them attention. I believe that most of them crave for that attention. Mark had understanding and an open minded spirited that allowed the inmates to connect and reach out for his help. I also believe that mark made most of the inmates want to start over and refresh their minds, spirits, and bodies.

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  10. Nathaniel Hall. In the novel True Notebooks, Hall has just come into play and attended his first writing class. The guard warned Mark that Hall was a handful and if anything happened to let him know right away and he would remove him from the writing class immediately.
    However, though Hall first came off as very arrogant and pushy, Mark grew to like him in his classroom. I feel that Hall made an impact on Mark because he acted in a way no one else in the classroom did. He was continuously rhyming and trying to be better than everyone else. Though Mark was some-what irritated by his actions, he was also enthused on how he would be in the classroom. Hall was challenged and put on the spot to try and “prove” him. I feel that because of this, Mark is Nathaniel’s muse. Not too long after his first class, Hall got into some trouble, which prohibited him from returning to the next writing session. Although he was not able to attend he still wrote based on a topic and had it sent to Mark. Why else would someone do such a thing if they didn’t really care in the first place or wasn’t initially inspired by some individual?

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  11. In the complete Persepolis, Marjane had a muse. I think the muse if Marjane is her Uncle Anoosh. I think Anoosh is her muse because, how much of an impact he made in her life now, since he was finally released she felt he was a hero to the family. She looked up to Anoosh because of his intrepidity. If she ever had anything to talk about he was the one that told her what she wanted to know.

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  12. What muses Marji is her ability to learn new things about the war and her ability to love her people. She is the only girl in her class who fully understands the war. She researches things she doesn't know like how the Arabs and Persians were at war fourteen hundred years ago. She feels it's the same war going on like it did back then history repeating itself. Marji likes to put her input into her parent's conversation and they push her away. They think she doesn't know what she's talking about. Marji is a kind of girl who could be an inspirational leader for her country. She is so devoted to her country and she is against the rules for women. Marji gets angry when she hears that her people have either been bombed or killed in different cities. She feels she wants to join the war becase she hates just talking about it but instead she wants to act on it. Marji feels that her willingness to fight for her country would make a difference for her people. She helps her parents stay safe and avoid dangerous parts of the city and she won't let anything happen to them. She knows that if that happens she would be upset and hurt.

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  13. In True Notebooks I think the Muse for the characters is writing. Most of the boy’s have mass amounts of anger building up inside of them because they are going to be in jail for the rest of their lives. They are stuck within the walls of the jail. Writing brings them back to reality and helps them to express their anger without getting into trouble. It takes their minds off being in jail.

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