Compare And Contrast Maus And Persepolis

The Maus and Persepolis While we read a story, we can compare it to ourselves as well as to our community. We can imagine how these people lived at that time, and how were their conditions only by reading a small detail. Those small details make the reader to have more information about that time as well as about the characters. The two stories that we are looking at are Maus and Persepolis. The first story talks about holocaust, which was the killing of millions of Jews by Nazi during World War II, and how the Jews suffered during that period. The main character is Valdek, who is one of the survivals and tell the story to his son Art. People lived their life normally before that event, and after it who survived continued their life with all …show more content…
In Persepolis, “You must understand that their love was impossible because in the country you must stay within yours own social class” (Persepolis, 37.) That demonstrates that even in a country that had revolutions to fight a kind of inequality they had that idea bored in their mind. Marji’s father, Eby, who was an active communist revolutionary, did not have a clear sense of equality. Eby was against the systems in the country, but he supported it in some ways because as we see he said “in the country”. Eby’s main goal, even he was quite modern, like the other revolutionary’s main goal was to have more freedom and equality in the country, but their actions and practices were different because as before the revolution the rich people stayed in their social class as well as the poor people stayed in their classes. It felt like that the freedom goal was to not be forced to convert to Islam, nor did they want to force the country to convert to an Islamic Republic, and their equality aim was only in