Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Do you ever wonder what its like to grow up in tragic, heartbreaking, war-like conditions? What it would feel like? How it would affect your family? In the novel, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi, expresses her take on growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution, through an autobiographical memoir presented through simplistic yet complex comic strips. This book develops the readers understanding on the revolution itself as well as how it affected individuals experiencing the situation. The main character, Marji, expresses and relays the sense of “lostness” she was going through throughout the novel. The author decided to use artwork to exemplify her story which appealed to me personally. It kept me interested in the not only

I would give this book a rating of 2/2 stars and would highly recommend the funny yet solemn memoir because of the author’s captivating technique in keeping the reader hooked on the story wondering what’s going to happen next along with the story itself and Marji’s progression as a character. Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood is an absolutely wonderful book infused with feeling of happiness, grief and sacrifice. There were times in her childhood where Marji was forced to mature before she was ready to. In the book, all Marji wanted to do was join the demonstration along with her parents and was extremely passionate about making the world a better place and striving to become a prophet. Satrapi, uses the voice of her childhood-self to exhibit how scary the whole situation really was to an innocent girl. I would definitely recommend this book to young adult readers because although it does deal with a mature topic, the author finds ways to relate to kids in a more modern age like today. Although the illustrations are very basic, they still convey a deep interpretation of what is going on in the scene. This first hand account sheds light upon the Islamic Revolution and the overthrow of Shah in an