![]() ![]() Satrapi creates another moment of Marji’s blithe innocence when her uncle Anoosh tells her about his ex-wife in a series of panels. Satrapi thus establishes from the beginning page that Marji retains her innocent happiness despite hearing and possibly seeing terrible things happening. ![]() However, despite the grimness present in their daily lives, the girls in this splash are still innocently playing. While it is clear they are too young to understand what they are talking about, this suggests that they have heard about or witnessed executions. However, even in this example of sophomoric humor, there is a hint of darkness, as one child solemnly states they are executing another ‘in the name of freedom’. One child scares the other by putting her veil on backwards and chasing the other, shouting that they are the ‘monster of darkness’. The humor is derived from how, in the image under the caption, the children are shown to be running around and playing with their veils instead of treating them as the sacred objects as religious authorities demand. The caption reads: “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to”. On the very first page, Satrapi combines literary and visual humor on the bottom splash. Satrapi utilizes sophomoric humor throughout the novel, but primarily in the beginning of part 1 in order to characterize Marji, the protagonist, as being innocent and childlike. ![]()
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