Marji In Persepolis

Everyone is molded through their experiences, memories, and surroundings. It is these that make who you are. The novel ”Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi, is about how the events the author experienced as a child heavily influences her identity. Marjane grows up in Iran during a very hard time; the Islamic Revolution. She has to deal with the contrasting ideas between the government and her parents. This novel shows Marjane Satrapi reflecting her identity through her parents, her loss of innocence, and of her environment; ultimately, showing how Marjane’s is very impressionable.

The conflict in Persepolis is shown through the changes that are caused between families, women and children when fundamentalist Islamic state takes over Iran. The story progresses though the main character, Marjane’s point of view and experience.

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.

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 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.”

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.

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.

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.

Marji revealed the essential role that the women around her had in expanding her character and building her into the strong women she is today. Marji Satrapi was impacted by all the women in her life that were courageous and those who supported the regime's oppressive measures. Marjane's mother, Taji, was perceived as a victim of the gender inequality present in Iran. She represents the progressive Iranian woman who wanted their opinions to be heard. Her mother taught her how to be strong, independent, and also portrayed as brave and rebellious.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The was her life, she lived through tough leaders and big changes. From going to an all girls school to having to watch her close friends and family die. The novel, Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi is a story about real, pure events that take place during her life. The reader gets a first hand view of what actually happened during this time, instead of reading or seeing things on the internet. Marji wanted to make sure “heroes,” were not forgotten and to insure people that a country should not be judged by the bad