Captivity and Freedom in Persepolis

In Persepolis, the Iranian Revolution was going on. During the Revolution, there were hardly any freedoms at all. The freedom of the Iranian people was stripped from them as it was from other citizens. Women were forced to wear veils as a sign of the culture. In revolt, citizens gathered up in the streets, some in their yards, preferably the children were in the yards, they performed what they called “demonstrations” in revolt to the reign of the Shah’s. Consequently to this revolt in demonstrations, the citizens were often beat, their bodies were mutilated, they were also often assassinated and killed, and a majority of them were thrown in prison to where they were treated like crap. With being beat and mutilated, the citizens in revolt kept on with the demonstrations them giving power to the theme of staying true to yourself staying true to themselves.
Before some people could get caught, they would often leave the country because they did not like the reign of the Shah and feel that they did not need to revolt. Some of them felt the convening in the demonstrations were not giving them the help that they needed, and their population was just decreasing as a result of it. One instance in the book was when a number of people were locked inside of a cinema from the outside, and the authorities were not doing a single thing about it. The police forbid for the citizens to try and help the people locked inside the cinema. The people charged and tried to do something about it, but they were attacked, and some were even murdered. It is only assumed that the police were the ones who locked them inside the cinema. Parts of the police force were revolutionaries. This is a major problem because the only thought of bringing justice to the ...

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...m. Marji was also seen going to parties. She was being seen smoking. She states that now that she is smoking, she not a child anymore and now she is an adult. She was being a rebel and going against the culture. Marji also got into the music of early 80s rock bands. One of them was Iron Maiden.
The theme of “brainwashing in schools” in strengthened by all of the bilingual schools being shut down. They said to the kids that the bilingual schools were a sign of capitalism. Not only did the schools brainwash the children, but the parents were also part of the brainwashing of the children. Marji states to her mother and her father that the Shah came into reign because he was chosen by god, and that it was meant to be. Marji’s mother then goes to bed as her father strikes up a conversation with Marji telling her that god has played no role the Shah coming into reign.