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How Does Marji Leave Her Family In Persepolis

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In the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2000), the main character Marji is forced to move on from her family. Her home country of Iran is at war with Iraq and her parents feel that she will be safer if she was sent to Austria. It was a heartbreaking decision for her family, but they knew it was best. Satrapi demonstrates that moving on is hard even if it is for the good, because it is tough to leave everything you remember behind. In this panel, Marji is at the airport leaving for Austria. She decides to look back at her parents one last time before leaving, but when she does, she sees her mom collapsed in her dad’s arms. The voice over represents how she regrets looking back at her parents. She didn’t want to see her mom like that and

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