Persepolis Marji Analysis

Being in the middle of a war at the age of ten is not fun and that is what persepolis is all about. Marji is ten years old she see people getting shot at and people's life get destroyed. This makes it hard for her to be a kid because she has so much adult stuff going on in her life so it pushes her to become more mature and make decisions on her own. So the elements of culture is what helps her get more mature though the years of her life. The three elements of culture that help Maji’s development throughout the story are Religion, Social organization and Government.

Marji does was born into Religion so she want to get a understanding of it but at the same time she is confused so sometimes she feels like she wants to defend her country and people but sometimes she want to defend the religion. “They forbade people to rescue those locked inside. Then they attacked them”(14). This demonstration made Marji think about the next demonstration and how she wanted to go so she can help and she wanted to be treated like an adult not a little kid she wanted to go for her country and her people. There is religious conflict because they want to

force their religion on these people and the only way to do that is to force it on them and they do not like that so they fight back and this causes religious conflict.
Marji wanted to be a prophet, she thought she could because her maid did not eat with them and her dad had a cadillac but later in life she found out why her maid did not eat them and her dad owned a cadillac and that would be because of there social classes. “When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed.”(37). Marji’s maid was in a different social class then the man she loved and that really hurt her and it also hurt Marji because Marji didn't understand why they had to be in the same social class to be in love. This helped Marji's development because when she realised what the war was about she had a better understanding and that helped her become more mature. There is conflict between Marji's maid and the social classes because Marji’s maid who loves a man who is in the higher class and they cannot be together because of the social classes and this is a conflict between her and the social classes. It is not her fault she is in a lower social class because she was born into it and was a maid when she was ten.
The government is a very important factor when there is a war, especially when it is a king who wants everything his way.

“Things started to degenerate. The army shot at them. And they threw stones at the army”(18). The king sent armies to Iran to spread their religion and take over but all the people of Iran didn't like that so they fought back by throwing rocks at them so the armies shot and killed a lot of people. This helped Marji’s development because she saw her parents coming home all beat up and not wanting to do anything and this made her want to help and that takes a step into being more mature and knowing what's right and what's wrong. The government and the society misunderstand each other's cultures throughout they stay and that is why there is so much conflict because they don't take the time to understand each

other.
Religion, Social organization and government are the three different elements of culture that helped Marji's development throughout the story. The elements of culture impacted Marji because it helped her want to know more and to learn more. She wanted to help to stop the war and become better and throughout the story there was a lot of obstacles but that did not stop her from helping and growing into a great individual. So being in the middle of a war is difficult and survive through it but as long as there is hope it will always be fine.