Everybody with a sibling can tell you that as children there were many fights. Most of the time it would end with some sort of punishment, like being forced to sit it time out or being grounded. Yet we have all seen our parents fight and they never get punished for it. The conflict of parent and child, and many other conflicts, are seen in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This graphic novel tells of Satrapi’s tween years, where she lived through the Iranian Revolution and struggled against both her parents, the government, and herself. Satrapi describes this revolution through her childhood point of view in order to show that there is juxtaposition in all forms of conflict, because no conflict is simple. Marji, the young Satrapi, was internally
