There is an extensive amount of literature and books written on the challenges women have face throughout the years. Many of these stories involved poverty, violence, and sexual abuse. The stories we read throughout the semester were amazing and I’ve chosen to compare and contrast Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003), and Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994). These stories have many similarities, for example, they both tell a story of two young girls who are sent away from their native homeland due to the traumatic events they were being exposed to.
Satrapi writes this non-fiction graphic novel to tell us about her memories when she was 10 years old growing up in Iran. Her eyes had been exposed to war, and she and her family …show more content…
These influential people consisted of her father, mother, grandmother and uncle. She begins by telling us how she struggled with laws that prohibited her from a religious and educational freedom known as the “cultural revolution” (Sitrapi 4). During the 1980’s, “it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (Satrapi 3). “Everywhere in the streets there were demonstrations for and against the veil” (Satrapi 5) Marji faced controversy early in her life as most Iranians were subjected to the laws of a fundamentalist religious state. Oppression of the female identity in particular was one of the things Marji struggled with most. During one her outings she chose to wear a pair of “tight jeans”, “sneakers”, a “Michael Jackson button”, and a “denim jacket”. She was quickly noticed and stopped by the “Guardians of the Revolution, the women’s branch. This group had been added in 1982, to arrest women who were improperly veiled” (Satrapi 132). These were some of the few things that held her hostage to a life of an extreme regime. Satrapi demonstrates the double principles of the Islamic administration and the twofold lives that her and her family were compelled to live. This is how the government “deprived Iranian women of choice about their identity, self-presentation, and place in society”. Some women who attempted to challenge these practices have been known to
Satrapi writes this non-fiction graphic novel to tell us about her memories when she was 10 years old growing up in Iran. Her eyes had been exposed to war, and she and her family …show more content…
These influential people consisted of her father, mother, grandmother and uncle. She begins by telling us how she struggled with laws that prohibited her from a religious and educational freedom known as the “cultural revolution” (Sitrapi 4). During the 1980’s, “it became obligatory to wear the veil at school” (Satrapi 3). “Everywhere in the streets there were demonstrations for and against the veil” (Satrapi 5) Marji faced controversy early in her life as most Iranians were subjected to the laws of a fundamentalist religious state. Oppression of the female identity in particular was one of the things Marji struggled with most. During one her outings she chose to wear a pair of “tight jeans”, “sneakers”, a “Michael Jackson button”, and a “denim jacket”. She was quickly noticed and stopped by the “Guardians of the Revolution, the women’s branch. This group had been added in 1982, to arrest women who were improperly veiled” (Satrapi 132). These were some of the few things that held her hostage to a life of an extreme regime. Satrapi demonstrates the double principles of the Islamic administration and the twofold lives that her and her family were compelled to live. This is how the government “deprived Iranian women of choice about their identity, self-presentation, and place in society”. Some women who attempted to challenge these practices have been known to