How To Get Green Grass 101 What if the grass isn’t greener on the other side? What does one do to move forward? In the memoir “Persepolis” Marj who is the main character, watched as her family opposed the current form of government. Her parents started to participate in demonstrations to dethrone the Shah, who was Mohammad Pahlavi, because of unfair distribution of wealth. Their actions encouraged Marj to participate in the demonstrations; although she didn’t quite know what she was getting herself into, she wanted what was best for her country. She wanted a government that was established with the bones of justice and equality. So, how to get green grass? Change is how to get green grass. Damaged grass cannot return green on its
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Marj does this because while revolution got her into a dictatorship, she knew that revolution is also the only thing that can stop this. Because Marj was persistent, from the start of the memoir she continuously fights for what she views as right. From the book, readers can conclude that even from the young age of eight years old Marj was an advocate for change. In “Persepolis” Marj is extremely clear and open her position on this topic of change, at one point in time Marj revealed that she “will be a prophet... justice, love and the wrath of God all in one” (Saptripi, 9). Her locality on change was positive, she saw change as a necessary precaution to improve the livelihood of the people in her country. At this point in the Memoir she has identified a glitch in her government, inequality and she would stop at nothing to share how she feels about the government with people through her evangelistic vocation. Marj eventually wanted to start participating in demonstrations with her parents. She asked time after time …show more content…
Obviously with any dictator those who stand up against them are punished, usually by death and that was also the case in “Persepolis”. Those who exemplified the slightest opposition was killed or imprisoned, which was less likely. Marj lost a lot of people that was close to her including her uncle, whose death was publicized in the newspaper with a heading of “RUSSIAN SPY EXECUTED”(Saptripi, 70). The government not only killed someone who was simply opposing the government but the also tried to justify his execution. The fear of being killed for opposing the government soon became an unbearable reality for many in marj’s country. This fear caused people to send their kids away to other countries by themselves. One example of this was when Marj’s other uncle was telling them how he had to send “his oldest son to Holland” so that he could seek refuge and could have a chance to live, grow old and not die in Iran. After they used all their resources to try to dethrone the Shah’s regime and were unsuccessful, Marj’s parents simply made the call that potentially saved her life. They sent Marj away she knew that it was bound to happen, saying “what I feared was true … we’d never live together again”(Saptripi, 152). After all she’s done to try to correct this corrupted government, she realized that she can 't,
Marj does this because while revolution got her into a dictatorship, she knew that revolution is also the only thing that can stop this. Because Marj was persistent, from the start of the memoir she continuously fights for what she views as right. From the book, readers can conclude that even from the young age of eight years old Marj was an advocate for change. In “Persepolis” Marj is extremely clear and open her position on this topic of change, at one point in time Marj revealed that she “will be a prophet... justice, love and the wrath of God all in one” (Saptripi, 9). Her locality on change was positive, she saw change as a necessary precaution to improve the livelihood of the people in her country. At this point in the Memoir she has identified a glitch in her government, inequality and she would stop at nothing to share how she feels about the government with people through her evangelistic vocation. Marj eventually wanted to start participating in demonstrations with her parents. She asked time after time …show more content…
Obviously with any dictator those who stand up against them are punished, usually by death and that was also the case in “Persepolis”. Those who exemplified the slightest opposition was killed or imprisoned, which was less likely. Marj lost a lot of people that was close to her including her uncle, whose death was publicized in the newspaper with a heading of “RUSSIAN SPY EXECUTED”(Saptripi, 70). The government not only killed someone who was simply opposing the government but the also tried to justify his execution. The fear of being killed for opposing the government soon became an unbearable reality for many in marj’s country. This fear caused people to send their kids away to other countries by themselves. One example of this was when Marj’s other uncle was telling them how he had to send “his oldest son to Holland” so that he could seek refuge and could have a chance to live, grow old and not die in Iran. After they used all their resources to try to dethrone the Shah’s regime and were unsuccessful, Marj’s parents simply made the call that potentially saved her life. They sent Marj away she knew that it was bound to happen, saying “what I feared was true … we’d never live together again”(Saptripi, 152). After all she’s done to try to correct this corrupted government, she realized that she can 't,