Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

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People are affected by culture everyday of their life; sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. A girl named Marjane Satrapi in the autobiography Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was impacted by a cultural revolution. Turning her life turn upside down. Over the course of a few years she had turned from a child to a young teen, experiencing the violence of war and eventually moving to Austria without her family. She was impacted greatly by the government, social organization, and changing customs and traditions. The government can change the laws and make society do whatever they want.
Marji was caught not following the proper apparel code for a woman; she spotted enforcers “They were guardians of the revolution, the women’s branch.

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