Persepolis By Marjane Satrapi: An Analysis

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic autobiography that illustrates her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and her high school years in Austria, including her return to Iran. Throughout the graphic novel, Marji goes through numerous of trials when she was a child and it builds tension with her present self. The events that changes Marji as a person are the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, her moving away to Austria, and her return to Iran, When Marji was a child she lived through the Iranian Revolution. The revolution took place back in 1978 through 1979. In the beginning, Marji did not understand what was going on, she was always “down with the shah.” After several talks with her parents she began to realize the shah was not the brightest person and he needs to be dethroned. During the revolution Marji met one of her uncles, Anoosh. Even though he was only in her life for a

When she got home she started to disregard of all the “punkish” items in her room. After being home for a while Marji old friends came and visited her and questioned her about Austria. She became overwhelmed with all the questioning and started to not want company until she thought of her friend Kia. Her and Kia talked all day which than made her spirit uplift, despite that he was in a wheelchair and she could not bear to see him that way. After a while Marji family kept giving her suggestions like she should join a gym and she should find a good husband, these suggestions just made her depressed. She became so depressed that a therapist had prescribed tablets to take. She thought about suicide but nothing would work so she thought that this was not her time yet. So, she reevaluated her life and eventually she met someone new in her life. She got along great with this person but started to realize they are completely different people. But since they were not married they found themselves not able to be out in