Marjane Essay

Marjane live is the world that is really different with us, she got lots of things, problems have to face. In her childhood is full of fear, stress, and restrictions where it builds on top of her. It’s hard for me to imagine what she has to face every single day when she wakes up in the morning. Inside the story, she also mentions how much pressure she had for her entire life. But how did she survive? How did she form her believe in this kind of environment? I believe there is a very important character behind this to help Marjane to form her believe, Marjane’s Father. He is the one who always supports Marjane to make a decision.

Marjane’s Father is the one who always support Marjane to make a decision, through Marjane’s life you can see

The reason that Marjane would be sent to Austria when she is 14 years old, is because of Marjane’s realized that Marjane didn’t suit to Iran’s society. Marjane is a child that full of imagination and creativity at that time period, based on this Marjane’s parent decide to send Marjane to Austria, to make her have a better life. “Don’t forget who you are and where you come from” (Persepolis 152) Marjane’s father notice that how hard it is for a teenage girl to live separately with her family and independently live in a different country. Although Marjane’s father had told her before she left Iran, but Marjane eventually started to lose herself. She was trying to suit herself in where she is and the friend around her, this action affect her personality become different than who she was in Iran. “That doesn’t surprise me, you always had the talent for communicating with people!” (Persepolis 193) When she told her father she is doing fine and having lots of friend through the phone call, her dad told her he believe that Marjane is talented and make Marjane’s dad thought Marjane is doing well in Austria. After this phone call, Marjane felt guilty and started to think what she had done, and what kind of person did she