Marji In Persepolis

People grow up in different way, affected by many different things as they grow and mature, during the process people change perspectives and ideals. In the book "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, a middle eastern girl who is coming of age, finds that her environment changes her as the country that she is in goes through an unstable violent state. With the rise of multiple changes, Marji’s family must learn how to adjust to the changing times. While Marji becomes a bystander to the persecution, violence ,and revolution, the main theme of the book is stay true to one’s self and forming one’s true identity through their own will. Marjane Satrapi shows how the quirky, but simple and straightforward communist child in a changing world to a grown young adult who is confused about herself and the world around her.

The book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, was written by Marjane Satrapi; it is the story of her life in Iran from birth to fourteen years old. The perspective of Marjane, in her novel, affects the overall presentation of revolution, religion, and social classes. Consequently, with no background knowledge, we only have her perspective which affects our own opinion about the events of the book.

War can have devastating consequences for anyone who is unfortunate enough to live through it, especially a child. The experiences that war forces a child to go through are often unspeakable and traumatizing. Things that they see, hear and feel during times of war mold these children into people that they never thought they would be. Marji, the main character in Persepolis goes through hell during the revolution and later, the war between Iran and Iraq. These experiences make her childhood like no other. Though these experiences are horrid and not appropriate for a child, they make her into a mature woman. Marji’s loss of innocence, caused by the things she experiences in her life, have a significant impact on her.

In Persepolis, because Marji is young she grew from being an ignorant person to learning and understanding the situations that occurred around her. In the beginning when Marji was young she was an ignorant person. She didn’t understand and lacked knowledge about what was really going on in the demonstrations. In chapter two page 17 panel 4 her father said, “You can participate later on.”

The novel “Persepolis” shows many life changes during the Islamic Revolution told through the eyes of a young girl. “Persepolis” was based on Satrapi’s childhood experience in Iran. Throughout the span of the 1970’s to the early 1980’s, Satrapi experiences many changes in her life, not only with the government, or her education, but also with herself. Although she witnessed many violent acts right in front of her eyes, these experiences helped Marji (Satrapi) grow as a young child.

Amazing, intriguing, and unimaginable are just a few words to describe how I felt about Persepolis while I read this true life story of Marjane Satrapi. This book has helped me to see all the life struggles, good times, and adversities that Marji faced between the ages of nine to thirteen. The Islamic Revolution had such a daunting effect in the Middle East, especially in the county of Iran where Marji and her family resided.

Marjane Satrapi is a hopeful, inspiring, and an intelligent author. In writing Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, she had many goals and dreams including informing the public that Iran as a nation experiences rocky times like every other country. In addition, Iran is not just a place where extremists live; there are children going through the same things as children in other countries. Unlike children in some countries, Marji’s childhood was overshadowed by protests and the revolution and its reforms. Many children, especially Americans are not exposed to the hardships of life like Marji and other children in Iran.

Persepolis is the graphic novel and autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, or Marji. The novel talks about her life before and after the Iranian Revolution in the late 20th century. The novel starts off with Marjane’s childhood during the Shah’s time and the transition into the Iranian Revolution. With the assistance of her family at home, Marji was able to overcome the struggles of being a child and young adult in Iran prior and post-Revolution. Her family helped her develop an understanding on how to handle conflicts and why the conflicts happen in Iran.

Losing a loved one affects everyone differently. Some people may not fell any emotions, but others may feel like a lot of emotions like Marjane. Marjane is the main character in Persepolis. She lost her uncle Anoosh was a very strong man, they had a good bond with each other.

In the memoir, Persepolis, the main character who was Marji faced many challenges throughout the novel. She dealt with many different people, involvement with the war, her individuality, guidance, her equity, and education. She was a unique individual who explored and displayed her ability to be a strong, independent feminist. There were many examples of feminism in the novel, especially in female education. Persepolis indicated the life of an Iranian girl, named Marji, childhood to adulthood who grew up in the Islamic Revolution.

Persepolis is an autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that pushes the reader to visualize Marjane’s life from childhood to growing and becoming an adult. This story takes place in Iran and it’s during the Islamic Revolution. The name Persepolis itself comes from the capital of an ancient Persian empire. The most prominent motifs for this novel is smoking, and the major reason for it is repetition, Marji spontaneously changes her lifestyle, habits, and attitude after she begins smoking, and that holds hands with another major motif which is coming of age. This writing will prove to you how Marji’s start of smoking and coming of age will bring changes to her lifestyle, attitude, and habits.

This points to the fact that Marjane and her perspective of revolution are influenced by her parent’s ideals, for, because of her parents revolutionary ideals, she went out and protested with them. Ultimately, Marjane Satrapi's perspective on nationalism, revolution, and social class are based on influences of her country and family. With everything on going on in Iran, Marjane has opinions about Nationalism, Revolution, and Social class. She has her own opinions and her family lifestyle changes what she believes and thinks about all three of these topics. Marjane is a type of girl that believes what she hears most of the time and that can ruin her thoughts on topics.

In life, growing up is inevitable and happens to everyone, but how that growing up occurs can be very different depending on your environment. Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, is set in Iran before and during the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970’s and the war between Iran and Iraq. The graphic novel centers around the daughter of an Iranian family, Marjane, who is an energetic and jubilant young girl at the beginning of the story.The revolution and other factors force her to mature quickly as she is influenced by violence, destruction, and the people surrounding her.

In Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis published in 2003, Marji is a young girl living with her family in Iran during the Islamic revolution. Marji’s family is living under the strict control of the government that limit her freedoms as a human and also as a girl. Trauma forces a loss of innocence, which causes children grow up before their time.

Persepolis is a coming of age story for Marji living in the middle of the Iranian war and adapting to the changes to both her culture and her personal life. Inequality between genders is heavily discussed within the story, as well as the struggles between the fundamentalist ideas and customs compared to the less extreme morals of some families: it is shown through the simplistic, but effective images by Satrapi.