Reading Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis was a great learning experience. I have actually learned a lot more about Iran and its Islamic culture than i knew. It was sad to see all the hardships Marjane went through, but her making it into a novel was a great idea. The world should see how people have had to suffer because of their culture. In the United States we are lucky to have our freedom to live and dress as we please, but other countries do not, and reading about that was a wake up call to me. In class on Friday we had to relate a part of Satrapi's novel to our lives. It is very interesting to see how what she went through was very similar to what we have encountered in our lives. In life we all make mistakes, but like Marjane we learn from them and move on.
I am very happy that this was one of the novels we read in class this semester. We saved the best story for last. Unlike the other stories we read i found this one the most interesting and easy to follow. It could have been because it was in the style of a comic book, and the picutres made it more enjoyable but also enjoyed how she added humor to it as well. The pictures helped depict the story very well.
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