Persepolis and White

What is the significance in the way Persepolis is told as opposed to the way Maus is told.?

Both are autobiographies so they both share tons of similarities. They also both tell stories of regimes reigning terror upon a battered and bullied nation and how the main characters are affected living through it. The major difference between the two stories however is the way they are told. They both follow White's Relativity of Narrative. There is a lot of reality in telling a story about WWII and the Iran-Iraq War from our authors. Speigelman tells the story of how his father survived as a Jew in Europe. There is a definite bias layed down as a groundwork for the telling of events. We are shown only one side of a large history and the author picked and chose what to leave in the final project. Persepolis tells the story through the innocence of a child. This allows a non-biased opinion to be put on the reader and allows us to experience the story as we read and tak from it what we will.

What makes for a better way to tell an autobiography and why?

I feel that the best way to tell a story is to give a non-biased recollection of all the events that happened in the individual's life. It's better to throw all the facts on the table, let us see the life as a third party bystander and let us make of what we want from the story then to be told. I think White would agree with me suggesting that facts are the main component to a story especially in telling a true story. Let people think what they want to.


JONATHON GOODRO