Saturday, May 1, 2010
Hard to read
I don't know about everyone else, but as I was finishing Persepolis Vol. 2 I was finding it extremely difficult to read. I would have to stop after each chapter and do something else for a couple of minutes to try and get myself ready to keep reading. I just found that the middle to end of the second volume to be too depressing, and honestly, I don't want to read about her trying to kill herself once her parents leave. The whole part where she doesn't want to cut her wrists so she takes all of her pills at once and then lives out on the streets of Vienna for a few months in the winter was not up my alley, and I just didn't enjoy the book as I did Maus. What does everyone else think of the way Persepolis ended?
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I also had a lot of trouble, not only finishing, but reading Persepolis. I felt like I had the attention span of a child because I had to force myself to actually concentrate on the text. Persepolis just seems much more dry in written style than Maus. When I was reading I could see that there was some sort of emotion the audience should be experiencing but for some reason I felt no connection to the words or the story.
ReplyDeleteI did not have this problem at all when reading Persepolis. The parts where she was living on the streets and contemplating suicide showed just how real her story is. She wasn't glossing anything over for the reader (just like Spiegelman didn't gloss anything over in Maus). I feel like she was showing her vulnerability at being sent away at such a young age, and although she was smart and independent for a child, she was still a child.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have this problem with the second half of Persepolis. I actually found the second part easier to read because it became more interesting as she started to live on her own.
ReplyDeleteI've felt this way throughout the whole book. her style is short and choppy but not always to the point whatsoever. i do agree though the second volume was a little better than the first half just because we can relate a little more to her being closer to that age. but yes there were many drink and tv breaks throughout reading this book in its entirety.
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