Being already the young woman she left her native land forever, Marjane Satrapi turns the autobiography into history in pictures where the little girl intertwines with mass discontent with the shah's mode, oppositional demonstrations, sufferings from prison tortures and belief in the bright revolutionary future. Against cruel internal and foreign policy wars, Satrapi describes history of formation of the free personality not dependent from the religion imposed by the new mode from the mode. But there is in this independence also a back which brightly illustrates (even in black-and-white comic book) a cultural and moral difference between the East and the West. Europe seeming from unsuccessful Iran a saving ark in reality was unclear, full of prejudices and cynicism. Where Satrapi's family tried to find happiness for the growing-up daughter, Marjane waited for heavier disappointments: in love, in people, in new ideals. …show more content…
Straight at the beginning of the book on the page 3 in the 3 panel Satrapi herself explains that “In 1979 the Revolution took place” , “The Islamic Revolution”. As after she explains that a lot of rules have changed as for example on the same page she shows that children for example didn’t understand why do they have to wear the veil, they act as