The passage above has been taken from the very beginning of the graphic novel Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi. I must have confused you with someone else…I beg your pardon (Satrapi 1). The selected passage is from Satrapi’s graphic novel Chicken with Plums: The essay aims at discussing themes, symbolism, and issues which come as significant within the passage and the whole work. Specifically, it provides the literary analysis of a selected passage with reference to the rest of the text. Read 11 of 2023.This paper presents cloze reading of Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi.Translated from the Spanish by Sean Manning Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha It doesn’t really matter where you start – they’re all wonderful. If you haven’t read any of her work yet, I highly recommend that you do. You know them as individuals and you recognize in them the people you know personally. By the end of each of these books, though they aren’t long and don’t take long to read, you really feel like you know the people she discusses. She can take a person and strip them down to their essentials in order to splash out a portrait of them on paper. I really, really love Marjane Satrapi’s work. It was such a lovely and heartwrenching book! The second to last panel, with the Angel of Death at the funeral, staring intently at a specific mourner – oh, it made me cry so much.

The love! The passion! The pain! Oh…and the artwork…so beautiful. Then, the end twisted around in a direction that I didn’t foresee at all, and I cried. At first, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like the book, but as the narration twisted and I came to understand more about a lifetime of frustrations, cyclical depression, and the outpouring of soul into music, I really empathized with Khan. This is the third book by Satrapi I’ve read, after Persepolis and Embroideries, and it has earned its place at the top of the list.

Through these memories, we come to understand Khan’s heartbreak and his loss of will to live. Satrapi presents each day of his final week, with flashbacks to earlier parts of his life that lead up to his current predicament. At the end of that week, he dies (this isn’t a spoiler, it says so right at the beginning). When Khan’s tar breaks, he falls into a depression and lays in bed wishing for death for a week. In Chicken With Plums, Satrapi writes a biography of her great-uncle, the famous Iranian musician Nassar Ali Khan.

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