Persepolis Essay Quotes

In the novel Persepolis it talks bildungsroman on how Marjane is growing up and developing her personality in her early age of her childhood.Marjane is first described as a young child who is very interested in her God.Throughout her life the book will describe how her identity and morals change as events in her life come in and she faces reality. “ I wanted to be a prophet...because our maid did not eat with us.Because my father had a cadillac and above all because my grandmother’s knees always ached”(Book 1 page 6)In the beginning Majane wanted to become a prophet ever since she was born. At a very young age she wanted to become the first women prophet to help everyone with their needs and wanted everyone to be treated fairly.At this point …show more content…
“We feel it’s better for you to be far away and happy then close by and miserable,judging by the situation here, you’ll be better off somewhere else.”(book 1 page 148)Marjane moving away from her parents changes her individuality and makes her more independent.The second big thing for her is her change in friends and love interest.“Things evolved.After some time,julie, the sullen girl in the second row,took an interest in me.She was an eighteen year old french girl,in a class where the average age was fourteen.”(book 2 page 12) Julie become Marjane 's first friend in the new country.She believes that the new group of friends are so amazing and unique compared to everyone else. She later finds out that they were only interested in her because she had ‘experienced’ war and then they began to make fun of her. “Well, of course! She lies when she says that she’s known war.It’s all to make her seem interesting.”(book 2 page 42) After being humiliated she finds a better group of true friends and is happy.Marjane begins to start dating but it doesn 't turn out the way she expected.The first guy she dates turns out to be gay and she feels hurt.But then she meets a guy named markus.“I finally had a real boyfriend.”(book 2 page 66) Marjane believes that she has found true happiness with Markus. Her happiness world fades when she finds markus cheating on her. “It was like a bad american movie. One of those films where the surprised man wraps himself in a sheet out of modesty and says: Wait I can explain everything!”(book 2 page 78) After this unfortunate incident Majane became lost because he was her emotional support and now had no one to turn to.She latter married but after three year they separated. “I dont know how I managed to tell him all that so suddenly.My grandma was right:I had taken my