How a young narrator claims identity when a city is being renamed around her
Students read an original composition about a student learning to name a city through the memories and silences of her family, alongside a clearly labeled classroom paraphrase and close reading of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2000). They examine how Satrapi uses a child narrator, graphic form, and ordinary details to show identity being remade during political change, then connect those choices to the question of who gets to name a place and belong within it.
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