Persepolis By Marjane: Character Analysis

Marjane Satrapi was returning home to Tehran from years of living in Vienna, Austria. She'd become very different from the Satrapi in Tehran; basically a makeover with ups and downs. The frames in this chapter represent the transition of past Marjane and present Marijane. What she'd come home to was intensively contrasting to the rooms he once recognized; her tapes were gone, the furniture seemed to be smaller than normal, everything appeared to have a twist to it. Marjane soon realized upon her arrival home that she had grown out of her childhood ways, she didn't idolized the same people like Kim Wilde and Camel any longer. Hence, in the book she says, "After all, mom hadn't been wrong. In any case, I no longer liked the idols of my adolescence." …show more content…
Marjane knew that she had become a change person so she essentially washed her hands of everything from her past. She said, "I decided to take this little problem as a sign. It was time to finish with the past," which left the allusion to the reader that she was completely done. I assume after Marjane came to the thought of looking towards the future, she left the house to walk the streets, maybe to get more tapes that she would like now since she has matured. But what she least expected was for there to be walls and murals depicting martyrs, everywhere she looked she seen symbolization of martyrs. She even proclaimed it seemed like she was walking through a cemetery, which was beyond what she could bear so she hurried to get home. In addition, to her not being fully used to being home and to be reminded of the ruckus she escaped from when she took the plane to Vienna was then when she acknowledged that a lot had happened since she left. She'd missed so much and her dad attempted to catch her up despite her mom not wanting him to proceed in doing