Western culture has often misunderstood the East and how society works. In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Satrapi uses graphic novels as a way to demonstrate to Western culture how the East has been misrepresented. The use of the media helps describe to the West how its view of the East may have been unfairly formed in the past. The media has revealed only limited knowledge that shows only partial perspectives because it is difficult to get the perspectives of minorities, even though they hold most of the truth. In other words, the use of graphic novels and a child's perspective give the West a new idea of ​​how Eastern society works. This style of writing brings the connection between the two very different ideologies closer together through the use of a recognizable perspective. Having multiple perspectives of a foreign perspective helps the West better understand the beliefs of the East and expose the misrepresentation given by the media. Also important is how the West understands that the media has misperceived the ideas of the East and how they can change them. Using the style of a graphic novel, she clearly shows the reader what she experienced as a child and how she remembers it. Graphic novels eliminate the need for any questions about what the scenario might have looked like; gives the reader an unbiased opinion from a child who experienced it firsthand. This idea of ​​making “the hidden visible” shows that Satrapi is showing the West a new point of view that they may have been naive to before reading the novel (Chute 106). If it were solely up to the reader to imagine the photos in their mind, they might be more biased because of the exposure of weste...... half of the paper...... was ignored by the media. Since the media has such a large impact on the lives of Westerners, it is important that Westerners have the opportunity to form their own opinions of the East without interference. Satrapi uses graphic novels to demonstrate that the West has been misrepresented by the media and offers them the opportunity to reconsider this perspective. Works Cited Chute, Hillary. “The Trace Plot in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.” WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 36. 1 (2008): 92--110. Print.Darda, Giuseppe. “Graphic Ethics: Theorizing the Face in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” University Literature, 40. 2 (2013): 31--51. Print.Naghibi, Nima and Andrew O'malley. “Estrangizing the Familiar: “East” and “West” in Satrapi's Persepolis.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, 1. 2 (2005): 223--247. Print.Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2003. Print.