Sean Gregoire

I enjoyed The Complete Persepolis a lot more than I thought I was going to when we first started to read it. It turned out to be much more interesting than I thought, and brought up a few good discussions in class. Marjane Satrapi tells stories of her life that I feel many of us can somewhat relate to, but in reality I think her situation is a very unique and tough one. I could never imagine my parents sending me to another country to live when I was only 14 years old. In one class we had a discussion about whether or not we think Marjane's parents made the right decision by sending her away to Austria when she was only 14. In my opinion I think their decision was a little rash and seemed to be made too quickly. It seemed to come out of no where, ya she was getting into trouble but it did not seem like she was in any real immediate danger. What seemed weird to me was that they did not even talk to her about it, they just randomly told her that she was moving to Austria alone.