The book Persepolis tells the story of young Marjane Satrapi and her experience during the Islamic Revolution. At ten years old, she is very naive and innocent at the beginning of this war, but it soon gives her knowledge on more serious topics of discussion. Marjane Satrapi’s perspective in Persepolis affected her view on religion, her loss of innocents, and her knowledge on social classes.
Loss of innocence is something that everybody goes through, but having it occur at ten years old is rare. This picture shows the slow loss of innocence experienced by Marjane, symbolized by a flower. She starts off naive and with no idea how serious this war is. Soon the war begins to break out, slowly changing her and taking away her innocence. The flower starts to fall and look more matured, which is exactly what happened to Marjane. At ten years old, many aren’t living in fear that their parents will die or that you’ll lose your life to a bomb, but that’s not even the half of what happened to her. Defending yourself against others was defined as ”You should …show more content…
To a child as young as Marjane, they can’t really comprehend that idea. Fortunately for Marjane, she was in the higher class because of her family’s bloodline and part in politics. This image depicts a pyramid, plain and simple. Specifically, all around the world pyramids seem to be a symbol for social classes. Simultaneously, when Marjane was learning about social class, the revolution was using social class as a weapon. A big part of Marjane’s perspective is affected by her social class within Iran. As Satrapi says “But it is her fault she was born where she is born?” (37). She doesn’t understand why her maid is being punished for falling in love with the guy next door, but her dad is attempting to explain how it would never work. His reasoning is only because they are in different social
Loss of innocence is something that everybody goes through, but having it occur at ten years old is rare. This picture shows the slow loss of innocence experienced by Marjane, symbolized by a flower. She starts off naive and with no idea how serious this war is. Soon the war begins to break out, slowly changing her and taking away her innocence. The flower starts to fall and look more matured, which is exactly what happened to Marjane. At ten years old, many aren’t living in fear that their parents will die or that you’ll lose your life to a bomb, but that’s not even the half of what happened to her. Defending yourself against others was defined as ”You should …show more content…
To a child as young as Marjane, they can’t really comprehend that idea. Fortunately for Marjane, she was in the higher class because of her family’s bloodline and part in politics. This image depicts a pyramid, plain and simple. Specifically, all around the world pyramids seem to be a symbol for social classes. Simultaneously, when Marjane was learning about social class, the revolution was using social class as a weapon. A big part of Marjane’s perspective is affected by her social class within Iran. As Satrapi says “But it is her fault she was born where she is born?” (37). She doesn’t understand why her maid is being punished for falling in love with the guy next door, but her dad is attempting to explain how it would never work. His reasoning is only because they are in different social