Satrapi uses images and text to show the drastic contrasts between the internal struggles she is facing and to more elaborately express the complex feelings she has when facing these difficulties. A frame that really shows Mari’s inner difficulties is when she is having conflicts between her faith and her families modernized life style. The frame expresses itself with Marii being “split in half with one side light and the other dark”(Satrapi 6), which represents her traditional religious and modern sides. She uses the opposing colors to better express the drastic contrasts between the two and how she cannot fully be one without lossing the other. Marii is unable to fully practice her religion without dropping some of her family’s modern ways
