Our class has just read the book called "Persepolis". This book was mainly about Marjane Satrapi’s young life in Iran. She grew up during the Islamic revolution and a memoir of her growing up to ten through fourteen! Her family is really insecure of what is happening now in there country and they are far from proletariat. Marjane's family lives our getting more closer from being decadent because they have a bad background. In the beginning , Marjane is a eleven and the Islamic revolution starts to evolve. This revolution was really between the people of Iran against Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the King of Iran during 1979. After all the protest of the people of Iran trying to overthrow the shah, in 1980 the King that replaced the shah said that all women have to wear veils for now on at schools and everywhere else. The girls did not like the idea of wearing veils because before the new laws were enforced, women didn't have to wear veils at school and the new law says that boys can't be in the same school as girls. The people who were protesting again to get the King out of there country were called Islamic fundamentalists because they don't like the ideas of what the king is enforcing. Also the new king is killing many citizens that were Islamic fundamentalists because they were going against him. The Iranians that were again protesting because a day before, the new king locked up 400 people in a movie theater and burned it while the people were still inside. So the Iranian fundamentalists didn't want to have this protest from being clandestine because they were
veritably ready to get back at the king. Back in the beginning of the book, there was Black Friday and it was a day of protesting. So much people died during Black Friday because they were trying to overthrow the Shah and most of the protesters were martyrs. The king had a really good secular monarchy going on and a lot of the people in Islam wanted to get rid of the monarchy and hopefully overthrow the king. In 1982 the war got bigger with Iran and Iraq because Saddam had enforced more bombs towards the citizens in Iran. So Iraq used their reservoir missiles to bomb Iran even more than Iran did to Iraq. With Iran trying to defend their country it was really hard because Iraq had better weapons and more power than Iran.2. What are the experiences Marji endures in the text and how do those experiences shape her perceptions of her family, her country, and herself?
Marji had to wear a veil in the beginning of the book and she didn't want to wear it at all. So I think she gets really mad and this really starts Marji to get more in this fight for there freedom in Iran. Her parents are always going to protest aganist the new king because there isn't anything else to do at home, but Marji can't go because she is to young. I think she got more stronger when she said she can't and seeing her parents fighting for there freedom. So when there was a day when the parents didn't go protest, her and the babysitter went to protest so they can feel how it felt to protest. Even though her parents were mad at her for doing the actions she did, the family stayed strong through the bombings, killings in their family, and they were acting like a strong family that will fight until they get what is right.
3. What do you think happens to Marji when she heads to Vienna? Write the remaining story of her life up unto the time she writes this text in 2002.
When Marji goes ti Vienna I think she will help other country's that have the same problems she had with her life and try to make the people in the country that needs help more easier. But of course she will get back to learning French again and meet new friends that have the same ideas a her. She will always contact her family every week because she wants to know that they are safe. But one of the weeks she has been contacting them, they don't call back. She is a little worried but still has faith that her family is still alive even though the war is still going on. Then she finds out that her family has died because of a roadside bomb out of the house and she is really depressed. She starts to care less to live but she remembers that she was a soul survivor when she was with her family and she starts to say to herself that she can't give up. She needs to continue what her family started and that is to help to secure freedom and stand up for what is right!
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