Persepolis as a graphic/movie

Responding to Katie's presentation on the Persepolis movie. After watching a short part of the Persepolis movie and reading the novel afterwards, I realized that the movie seems to be missing something. The movie did not seem as complete as the graphic novel. In Katie's presentation, she said that the movie is the complete Persepolis, containing both Persepolis 1 and 2. That is probably why the movie seems to be moving from scenes too scenes too quickly. When I watched the small part of the movie, I did not understand it that well, and I couldn't soak myself in the scene, I couldn't feel the scenes. When afterwards I read the novel, I could understand everything, and everything was going in just the right pace that I could feel each scene. Though the movie is nice to watch, the novel is probably the most original portrayal of Marjane's childhood. Also responding to the class discussion, why did Marjane write her memoir as a graphic? Why didn't she just write it as a traditional novel? Personally, I think the graphic speaks to the readers in a very different way than a novel would. Not only do graphics paint a more vivid image, it also speaks to a much larger crowd. Many people don't like reading novels, such as children or student like me, who don't randomly grab a book and start reading. But most people do enjoy comics, they are, in many ways, easier to understand. Writing her memoir as a graphic novel gives her so many extra tools to work with. She can use these pictoral tools to convey her feelings and message, which if she were to write it in traditional novel form, she would only have words as a tool. On page 43, as Marjane's mom is saying "NOW THAT THE EVIL HAS LEFT!" we see a snake/dragon-like creature surrounding the picture, giving us a whole other messege completely not given in words. If it were in words it would probably have meant "little did she know that when she said...she was completely wrong". The graphic gives it a whole other level of conveying the messege to us. We feel the creeping of something evil while seeing that on the surface, everything looked to be going perfectly. I doubt Marjane would have been able to convey the same feeling as well if she wrote it in words. Writing her memoir in graphic lets her book connect to the readers in a very deep and personal way.