In life, in order to obtain freedom you have to make some sacrifices. Nobody knows this better than Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, a girl who grew up in a very modern Iranian household during the Iran-Iraq war. Her family eventually decides that they aren’t going to leave Iran but that it would be best if Marjane went to another country where she can get a proper education and be free. Satrapi uses the motif of family throughout the story to show how her freedom comes at a cost. When Marjane is out with her friends she tells a man that she is French when he asks her where she is from. She doesn't tell him she is Iranian because she is ashamed of how people perceive her culture. She then in the back of her head hears her grandmother
