Persepolis Story Of A Childhood Essay

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi captures life in Iran during the 1980’s through a child's eyes. Marjane Satrapi grew up during a time when both the Islamic Revolution and the Iran/Iraq War took place. Personal experiences are expressed through themes including revolution, imperialism, nationalism, religion and loss of innocence and affect Marjane personally as she grows up.
When a revolution takes place, it brings with it riots and demonstrations among the citizens. This image shows riots throughout the streets of Iran, lead by the citizens. Although they are not a result of a revolution, it represents similar actions to those that took place during the Islamic Revolution. As a young child, Marjane was exposed to demonstrations against the Iranian leader, the Shah. Being 10 years old, she did not fully understand the purpose of these actions, but wanted to take part in them like her parents. This theme of revolution affected Marjane personally because her family, who were against the Shah, got involved in the actions, and taught her differently that …show more content…

As a young girl, the power she saw in the revolution lead her to want to be powerful, as portrayed in this picture. She longed to be related to a hero, a person she believed went to jail, was tortured, and made it out. She did not understand everything she heard, and took it into the wrong context. By the time Marjane was a teenager, the war between Iran and Iraq had exposed her to immense death, destruction and violence. She was old enough to better understand such actions, and they negatively affected her actions. Marjane made fun of school rituals, skipped class, and got expelled for hitting the principal. She saw her mother as a dictator and rebelled against her my smoking a cigarette. This theme gradually changes Marjane’s personality, and by the end of the book all her fear was

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