This week most of our time was spent discussing "The Complete Persepolis" about Marjane Satrapi and her life growing up in Iran. It seems like it was a hard time growing up in theis area because there were many demonstrations and new ideas floating around which made it difficult to Marjane to understand and fully grasp things. Marjane tries very hard to try and understand everything that is going on and tries to form her own opinions about things. Sometimes when she does this she is disregarded and ignored, when she brings up her thoughts in the classroom she usually does not agree with the teacher therefore is punished for speaking against the revolution. Many people in class seemed to believe that Marjane was an outcast and to a degree I would agree, all the points that were brought up in class about how she was made complete sense. Although she is an outcast I think that she is trying very hard to understand and because of that it is not as badly outcasted as in other stories that we read. In the past stories the people usually have a physical deformity or a mental illness of some sort. This is not the case with Marjane, and in some cases I do not think it is her fault she is an outcast because she is trying very hard to know things but the government and people's ideas keep changing not allowing her to keep up. Cassidy Weeks, Post 10