Both, “Hunger of Memory,” written by Richard Rodriguez and “Persepolis,” written by Marjane Satrapi demonstrate the reader their own life journey migrating to a foreign country. Marjane and Richard shared similarities such as well educated, migrated to a western culture country, and both somehow miraculously ended up becoming authors. Although, there’s similarities between Marjane and Richard, unlike Richard, Marjane did not remain as a migrant. After migrating from Iran to Vienna, Australia's capital for four years, Marjane decided to return back to Iran. Unlike Richard, migrating to a more developed nation was not as beneficial to Marjane as it was to Richard. Migrating to Australia did not actually bettered Marjane’s life, but instead it
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After leaving Ecole Jeanne D'arc because a dispute between the nuns, Mirjane left and shared a room with Julia. Julia a eighteen year old french student that Mirjane met during her time in Ecole Jeanne D’arc was fascinated with Mirjane because she have “known war.” Fascinated by Mirajane, Julia would introduced Mirjane to, “An eccentric, a punk, two orphans, and third-worlder.” (p. 167) This group, including Julia are crucial negative influencers in Mirajane's assimilation, especially Julia. Julia’s influences would be discuss later on in this essay when Mirjane returned back to Iran, where she is outcast again, but now instead of strangers, it’s her former friends in Iran. During the short year with Julia, Mirajane became close with the people Julia introduced. On page 189, Mirajane described her drastic physical changes between the ages of fifteen and sixteen. Despite calling her physical changes as an “ugly stage,” in order to assimilate, Mirajane completely changed her appearance to thick eyeliners and gelled short hair. One could opposite this change as something positive, that she’s trying new things, but even Mirajane felt uncomfortable. Saying, “As if my natural deformity wasn’t enough, I tried a few new haircuts.” (p. 190) Mentioning her “deformity,” her physical changes wasn’t bad enough, she decided to try new haircuts. With this quote, we can’t deny that …show more content…
Both Richard and Marijane were in a social group once they were assimilated to the western culture. For Richard, his social group/community was the Catholic Church. During his time in grammar school, Richard had a close relationship with the nuns and the priest. Before having friends over, Richard recalled the very first time having a gringo, someone outside of his intermediate family in his house for dinner. This specific guest was the priest of the Catholic church Richard and his family would attend to. During his years in grammar school, Richard would became an altar boy at the age of twelve. As an altar boy, Richard was responsible in carry the red missal and pour water and wine into the priest’s chalice during ceremony. At the age of thirteen and his final three years in grammar school, Richard held almost thirty baptism ceremonies from weddings to funerals. During the summertime, Richard would bounce between ceremonies as an altar boy to going to class as a student. Not only was exposure to responsibilities beneficial, Richard actual enjoyed being an altar boy. According to Richard, “My sense of belonging in this ceremonial Church was dearest when I turned twelve and became an altar boy.” (p. 104) In the matter of fact, because of the Catholic Church, Richard was well mannered. Whenever spoke to a
After leaving Ecole Jeanne D'arc because a dispute between the nuns, Mirjane left and shared a room with Julia. Julia a eighteen year old french student that Mirjane met during her time in Ecole Jeanne D’arc was fascinated with Mirjane because she have “known war.” Fascinated by Mirajane, Julia would introduced Mirjane to, “An eccentric, a punk, two orphans, and third-worlder.” (p. 167) This group, including Julia are crucial negative influencers in Mirajane's assimilation, especially Julia. Julia’s influences would be discuss later on in this essay when Mirjane returned back to Iran, where she is outcast again, but now instead of strangers, it’s her former friends in Iran. During the short year with Julia, Mirajane became close with the people Julia introduced. On page 189, Mirajane described her drastic physical changes between the ages of fifteen and sixteen. Despite calling her physical changes as an “ugly stage,” in order to assimilate, Mirajane completely changed her appearance to thick eyeliners and gelled short hair. One could opposite this change as something positive, that she’s trying new things, but even Mirajane felt uncomfortable. Saying, “As if my natural deformity wasn’t enough, I tried a few new haircuts.” (p. 190) Mentioning her “deformity,” her physical changes wasn’t bad enough, she decided to try new haircuts. With this quote, we can’t deny that …show more content…
Both Richard and Marijane were in a social group once they were assimilated to the western culture. For Richard, his social group/community was the Catholic Church. During his time in grammar school, Richard had a close relationship with the nuns and the priest. Before having friends over, Richard recalled the very first time having a gringo, someone outside of his intermediate family in his house for dinner. This specific guest was the priest of the Catholic church Richard and his family would attend to. During his years in grammar school, Richard would became an altar boy at the age of twelve. As an altar boy, Richard was responsible in carry the red missal and pour water and wine into the priest’s chalice during ceremony. At the age of thirteen and his final three years in grammar school, Richard held almost thirty baptism ceremonies from weddings to funerals. During the summertime, Richard would bounce between ceremonies as an altar boy to going to class as a student. Not only was exposure to responsibilities beneficial, Richard actual enjoyed being an altar boy. According to Richard, “My sense of belonging in this ceremonial Church was dearest when I turned twelve and became an altar boy.” (p. 104) In the matter of fact, because of the Catholic Church, Richard was well mannered. Whenever spoke to a