While discussing Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, with my classmates during the interactive oral, I found the many forms of exile represented in the novel very interesting. For example, while traditional examples of exile were frequently represented (i.e. how Satrapi’s Uncle Anoosh exiled himself to Russia in order to escape the Shah’s army (57/3,4)), many non-traditional forms of exile where it is more abstract, and not necessarily a person sent from a place. One example of this form of exile is after Uncle Anoosh’s death, when Satrapi exiles God, and to an extent, religion from her life (70/4,5). Keeping with the theme of many of the more abstract exiles in Persepolis, this exile both marks a large change and growth in Satrapi’s life as well
