Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: Summary

“Comic artist Marjane Satrapi tells the story of her childhood in Iran during the Revolution of 1979”(Stoll 1) under the suppress of the Islam fundamentalism, with extreme violence and torture. people in Iran grew out some suspicion toward the national religion. Also, the unsatisfying citizens, with the lost of freedom of right, the growth of anger from thousand of persian. Marjane “Satrapi 's storytelling ability to engage readers both emotionally and in informing them of Iran 's national history” (Stoll 1) . The author of this book is to discuss about how Islam fundamental used the power of religion twisted the original meaning of love and justice, and hope. When the extreme cruel reality, like when the time when her uncle saw as russian spy and got excuted. The shock from the facts makes marji hopeless and the real time to face at the reality and lost her innocent. Showed the despear toward islam.

In persepolis one, there are serveral motifs. Among these motifs, the god appear the most at the first few pages of the book. Marji, the main character lived in Iran, whereas become …show more content…
Satrapi narrated the god and Marx are look alike. However the god itself is not a concrete person, he is an icon, a holy figure. This comparasion between the two reveal the innocent of Marji. The idea of god in Islam and materislism is contradicting, this two figure is forshadowing of how there will be more reality of the Islam come into Marji’s face and interferr with her ideology of Islam. The impression of Islam has changed into a unfamiliar religion, which become an inter struggle between her former belief and the reality of the ideology she usee to believe. Different perspective of the society appeal to Marji and she choose to face the reality and oppose the Islam