Marji and Tayo’s decisions are heavily influenced by their geographical background. Due to Tayo being of mixed race descent and growing up on a Native American reservation, Tayo’s views of the world were similar to many indigenous peoples beliefs. Growing up, Tayo was taught many ceremonies. One day Tayo and Rocky come across a dead deer in the Silko describes that, “Rocky slit his throat blood spilled over the grass and into the dirt; it splashed on his boots… they sprinkled the cornmeal on his nose and fed the deer’s spirit” (Silko 47). If someone not raised in a Native American environment had come across, they would have left it alone. However, Native Americans believe that people have a strong connection with nature and that nature
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Most of Tayo’s actions in the beginning of the novel are a direct result of his connection to nature due to his Native American upbringing. In “Persepolis”, most of Marji’s decisions were also a direct effect of her geographical background. Naturally, being a kid in a repressive regime is not easy; most kids are forced to grow up very fast in an environment like that, and Marji is no …show more content…
Growing up, Tayo was taught primarily in the ways of Native American culture; consequently, Tayo feels as if a medicine man is more suited to help him. Furthermore, he feels as though the white doctors don’t understand him, or the world around them. As a result of Tayo being raised on the reservation with Native American values, Tayo decides to go to a medicine man to find his cure in nature, rather than in western medicine. In “Persepolis”, Marji hears on the radio that many Iranian planes were shot down in battle; Marji wonders if friend Paradisse’s father was one of the soldiers that died. When Marji sees Paradisse at school next, she knows that her father was among the soldiers that died. Marji says, “I knew right away but I didn’t ask” (Satrapi 85). Forced to grow up in a state conflicted by war, Marji has seen a lot of death in her childhood. Most children of her age would not know to not ask if her father was okay, or even think to ask a question like that. Furthermore, her decision not to say anything to paradisse is a direct result of her
Most of Tayo’s actions in the beginning of the novel are a direct result of his connection to nature due to his Native American upbringing. In “Persepolis”, most of Marji’s decisions were also a direct effect of her geographical background. Naturally, being a kid in a repressive regime is not easy; most kids are forced to grow up very fast in an environment like that, and Marji is no …show more content…
Growing up, Tayo was taught primarily in the ways of Native American culture; consequently, Tayo feels as if a medicine man is more suited to help him. Furthermore, he feels as though the white doctors don’t understand him, or the world around them. As a result of Tayo being raised on the reservation with Native American values, Tayo decides to go to a medicine man to find his cure in nature, rather than in western medicine. In “Persepolis”, Marji hears on the radio that many Iranian planes were shot down in battle; Marji wonders if friend Paradisse’s father was one of the soldiers that died. When Marji sees Paradisse at school next, she knows that her father was among the soldiers that died. Marji says, “I knew right away but I didn’t ask” (Satrapi 85). Forced to grow up in a state conflicted by war, Marji has seen a lot of death in her childhood. Most children of her age would not know to not ask if her father was okay, or even think to ask a question like that. Furthermore, her decision not to say anything to paradisse is a direct result of her