Persepolis Character Analysis Essay

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Marjane Satrapi’s views and behavior
At the beginning of the tale of Persepolis, she is a special child. In her mind and her soul don’t have nothing of wickedness. She is a girl who wishes to be a person who made good thing for her family and for the world. Things that don’t make anything bad for anyone, if not good things. In this stage, she is a child, but when she begins to grow up. She changes a lot in her personality, her points of view about her family, and the world. Her changes are caused by the Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq war.
In her short life, she must learn how to struggle with some situations that sometimes the life gives us. She learns the death of a loved one, the injustice of the laws, and the religion doesn’t involve with the politics. The first change is on her behavior by the death of her uncle Annosh. She feels so bad and sad for him, but in her mind, she doesn’t understand well why he died. In her mind, she makes an idea that God is one of the guiltiest of it, but he is not. She acts so strictly against God. She may hate God that she doesn’t want to know anymore about him. She still is a child when she begins to change her
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It’s fine not to agree with that, but she acts in rebellion, she might die for it. She tries to fight with the absurd revolution and war. Therefore, she is not the only one that is rebel, her family also when they make secret parties and drink wine. These are forbidden by the King in the time of the revolution. She is against on everything that is one-sided. They make those things because they are happy, maybe their traditions, and their point of view is different. They are in a Western culture than Iranian culture, so they enjoy their life as they want, and not as the way that king or the religion impose. While the king just wants that people prayed and followed his rules and people become more

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