Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

53 reviews

alex_wordweaver's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I've wanted to read Persepolis since I first saw it in my high school library. I'm so glad I finally got to read it. It was a great, fast read. Super informative and engaging.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and War

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Vomit

thegardenlesbian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Muy buen libro, me ha llenado el corazón. Recomiendo a cualquiera que lo lea. Es increíble la conexión que se siente con la autora, especialmente de niña. Te hace llorar de tristeza y de risa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

jakepasseri's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.75

For me, the power of Persepolis is in allowing a reader to understand massive conflicts not through statistics, troops or other top-down view, but through the perspectives and lives of individuals. It allows us to understand the humans at the heart of conflicts that get lost when you cannot connect with them in other mediums

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

bellsdixon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

thecandiegirl's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Alcohol, and War

allisoncdn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and War

v_andbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Da biblioteca. I haven't read a whole book so long in a day in a long time. This story tells the story of Marjane, an Iranian girl growing up during the revolution and subsequent regimes.

Talking about freedom and the horrors of war and dictatorship, and the way the western world looks at West Asian countries, this graphic novel should be taught and commented in every single school. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Xenophobia, and Medical trauma

Suicide attempt:

After Marjane comes back from Austria, at the beginning of book 4, she is very depressed and attempts suicide by drinking alcohol and taking too many pills. When this doesn't kill her, she decides to change her life completely.

Religious bigotry:

Both Islamic and Christian extremisms are brought up in this book. You can find the characters usually disagreeing with religious bigotry in Iranian politics when the story is set in Iran, but in book 3 the story is set in Europe and the Christian bigotry is seen in form of xenophobic nuns.

karitoy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Rape

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Torture, and War

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Rape, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

rainbowrocky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Sexism, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment