Booth's Types of Narration vs. Satrapi Narration

The medium of storytelling is as important as the story itself. Satrapi making her story a graphic novel by using frames of drawing with minimal text, calls on the reader to enter into a different kind of textual interpretation. Artistic style becomes as important as text for relaying narrative to the reader.  

Persepolis brings a particular graphic style to the autobiographical narrative. Satrapi draws in a simple style: black and white, often only six to eight panels on a page. As talked about in class, this style is meant to represent a childlike understanding of the world since the novel follows Satrapi's own childhood.

After reading Booth's Types of Narration  and Persepolis, Satrapi has used the narration 'person' and 'dramatized and undramatized narrators'. Booth claims the narration 'person' is when we actually get to know the author. Considering Satrapi is using 'I' within the book and the family members are calling the little girl Marji, we see that the little girl is in fact, the author. Finding out that Satrapi is using herself as the character, helps us get to know the author much more and be able to realize what exactly she wants.

Booth claims that 'dramatized and undramatized narrators' is when the narrator creates an suggested picture for the readers as who the author could maybe be. At the beginning of Persepolis, we see that Marji would like to become a prophet and talked with God a lot. Finding out that the little girl is actually Satrapi herself, we can see that she has a religious background. The fact that Marji has a religious background might be irrelevant to the story as a whole, but it helped us get to know more about the author. Getting to know more about the author will help us connect with the book as a whole.