Essay On Marji Religion

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Claim: Throughout this memoir, Marji grows from a young religious girl to a rebellious teenager that pushes God away due to her witnessing the revolution in Iran, meeting and losing her Uncle Anoosh, and her parents showing her the flaws in their government system. In advance to the revolution in Iran, young Marji had her eyes set on becoming a prophet however, after learning the flaws in her government and wanting to become a revolutionary, she pushes that all away. Marji had always had very concrete thoughts about her faith, but as the revolution came about, she began questioning her opinions. The policy of wearing the veil was pushed on her and her peers and she didn’t know what to think of it because she was religious, yet her family was very modern. As she looks back at her beliefs, Marji remembers, “At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was a few years before the revolution” (Satrapi 6.) This quote shows that before the revolution …show more content…

One night, Marji’s parents are conversing about the advancement of the revolution and all the destruction around them. Marji overhears them when they mention demonstrating the next day and she begs them to let her go along. Before they refuse her request, Marji speaks to God, “I want to go too. Don’t you think I look like Che Guevara? Maybe I’ll be even better as Fidel Castro! Where did you go?” (Satrapi 16.) During this scene, Marji is telling God that she wants to revolt against the Shah and participate in the demonstrations. In the midst of her telling him all this, God disappears and doesn’t return because he was offended that she was no longer interested in becoming a prophet. After Marji’s parents tell her she can’t demonstrate just yet, Marji wonders, “God, where are you? That night he didn’t come” (Satrapi 17.) Once Marji begins to show interest in the revolution and no longer shows the devotion to God she once did, he leaves her

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