Johan Bennet Argument Final Draft

In Persepolis, a nonfiction written by Marjane Satrapi, there is a girl named Marjane. She experiences deaths of loved ones. Johan Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of SMJUHSD, is banning this book for certain reasons. Despite this, Persepolis should not be banned.

 

One reason why Persepolis should not be banned is because of its pictures. The pictures in this book come very handy. For example, if you don't get a certain situation in the book, all you have to do is look at the pictures. This is important because the pictures provide a better understanding of the book, and it also gives us a visual image of the situation. In addition, these pictures give the reader a set in mood. the images have a dark and white coloring that can make the situation sad, happy, angry, etc. In page 256, the picture is almost all black giving the feeling of death. This is very useful because we can get into the situation making us to keep on reading, but these aren't the only reasons why it shouldn't be banned.

 

Another reason why Persepolis should not be banned is because it teaches some valuable life lessons. It teaches the readers the consequences for disobeying your parents or the rush of one's marriage. In the book Marjane and her boyfriend decide to get married with out any planning or anything. That soon led to the fall of their marriage followed by a divorce. Life lessons are important because we learn and can use what we learned and use them later on in life. Slow and steady, they stumble that run fast.

 

Johan Bennett Believes that this book is not a book 10th graders should read. "the main character Marjane Satrapi,' said Bennett,' is not a good role model for your young, impressionable youth." Bennett stated this because in the novel it talks about Marjane having multiple sexual partners and becoming her schools drug dealer clearly, Bennett doesn't want us to follow in her footsteps. It is true that Marjane is not a good role model, but we can learn from her mistakes.

 

The final reason why Persepolis shouldn't be banned is because we learn about different culture. Reading this book will give us information about cultures. Cultures is fun because you learn interesting things you didn't know. For example, you learn about different foods, activities, ideas, etc. Learning about culture is a good thing because it is a way of bonding. you learn about their music, art, how they live, and what they eat. It is like you are in their shoes. Furthermore, learning about other cultures gives us a chance to know what's going around the world, and not only the country you live in. This is important because with knowledge we go forward and better ourselves. If we don't know or learn about new things what is the whole point of living? "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever," said Gandhi. Why hide from the world when you can embrace what the world has to offer? It is clear that we should not ban Persepolis.

Persepolis is a good book and should not be banned. It has pictures to give us better understanding, we learn about the world, and it teaches valuable life lessons. I strongly suggest reading Persepolis for yourself, and together we will say to Johan Bennett not to ban this amazing book!

johan argument

     In Persepolis, a graphic novel, by Marjane Satrapi, there is a young girl named Marjane. She grows up in Iran with war all around her. There are revolutions she wants to take part of as a girl, and with these revolutions she experiences deaths of loved ones. As she grew up into adult hood, she made poor decisions. For example, She ditches school, she doesn't listen to her patents, and becomes a drug dealer. Johan Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of SMJUHSD, states that Persepolis is not a Good book, well I'm here to prove him wrong.

       Johan believes That this book is not a book 10th graders should read. Bennett is banning this book from all schools. "The main character Marjane Satrapi," said Bennett," is not a good role model for your young, impressionable youth." Bennett stated this because in the novel Marjane talks about having multiple sexual partners and becoming her school's drug dealer; and clearly Bennett doesn't want us to follow in her footsteps. Johan Bennett also said, "Persepolis is not a rigorous text that high schoolers should study, and it is closer to a comic book than a novel." Some people may go against his statements.
     The graphic novel, Persepolis, is actually a very good book, in my opinion. Most people think of terrorists or bad people when they think of the middle east. you shouldn't judge a person by his or hers wrongdoing. Marjane wrote this book to show people that the middle east isn't as bad how people think it is. The book can teach some valuable life lessons, for example, It teaches the readers the consequences for disobeying your parents or the rush of ones marriage. Slow and steady, stubble that run fast. Its said that if you take things slow everything will go right, but if you rush things you will collapse. This book is a winner of Cannes film Festival Jury Prize. It is very entertaining and the students like to read this book because some feel they can relate to Marjane, whether it is religion or being one of the people that are left out all the time.
     Bennett aslo said that Persepolis is not a good book because of the comic genre, but there is a reason why there are pictures. There are pictures to have a better visual of the situations. The black and white colors set the mood and within the pictures you can find symbols. When you find the symbols you have a better understanding of the situation. A chapter in the book, The Key, is one where you can find a symbol. It has a key that represents the pathway to heaven. If a boy died during the war with the key on, he would go to heaven. You make connections with characters or even something that is going on in your life.
     I believe that this book is one of the best out there. It keeps us teens entertained and it gives us life lessons. It is a very good book, and I strongly suggest to read this book yourself!