This week we discussed a novel by Marjane Satrapi called "The Complete Persepolis." It is a novel length comic book she wrote to show others her life during the Islamic Revolution. Life was very difficult for everyone in Iran at this time. Women began to have to wear veils to cover themselves so they would be different to men. As a young girl, Marjane was very smart. She had her own thoughts about what was going on in her world, and she stood by them. It was very hard for her though, because her parents would tend to think differently.
Marjane is an outcast in this story, not because of how she looks, but because she wants to be. She could change her ways and conform with the rest of society but she does not want to. In class we had discussed how she wears a different colored veil in order to stand out from the rest of the people. Marjane is a person who wants to be heard and not put in the corner. I found it very sad that during this time when children's fathers were being put in jail because of their beliefs, Marjane was upset that her father was not. She wanted to have an exciting family story about being tortured or suffering. It is sad to think of such young children having to grow up in a time of war and thinking that way.
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