Persepolis Essays -- Marjane Satrapi

PersepolisAmazing, intriguing, and unimaginable are just a few words to place how I felt about Persepolis while I read this true life story of Marjane Satrapi. This maintain has helped me to see alone the life struggles, good times, and adversities that Marji set about between the ages of nine to thirteen. The Islamic Revolution had much(prenominal) a daunting effect in the Middle East, especially in the county of Iran where Marji and her family resided. In the year of 1979 all that Marjane knew what it was like to not have to be aimd into wearing a obscure. Before the Islamic Revolution she was able to attend a a french Non-Religious school where girls and boys were allowed to study and play together. Unfortunately her creation of carefree ness ended once the Islamic government decided to change their ways and force others to conform to their religious beliefs of what is right and wrong. Marjanne was raised by two very independent and brilliant parents who were upper middle class people. Her parents tried to raise her to commit that she could be anything that she wanted to be as gigantic as she put her mind to it. Mr. Satrapi would give Marji books on communism and by Marz, because her father was a Marxist. one time the Islamic revolution took over Iran Marji had to wear the veil and was not allowed to go to school with her male friends because it is not of Islam for children of different sexes to be educated in a unisex school environment. Marjanes mother Mrs. Satrapi was a sales demonstrator and her and her husband believed in protesting for things that they did not believe in. Protesting was seen as demonstrations that meant bad to all who participated in them. Well Mrs. Satrapi, was photographed by a German photographer in the characterization of protesting one day... ...had a law that if a virgin woman was against the Islamic Revolution she would be espouse kickoff to her enemy and she would be de-virginized and then killed. I found this in truth appalling not only were these girls about to be killed because they had different opinions, but first their innocence would be taken from them. I really enjoyed this book and it made me sympathize with the good people in the Middle East. It was nice to see how Marjane Satrapi grew up and try to learn how difficult life was for her and her people. This book made me really grateful for all that I have been blessed with through God. This novel taught me a lot about Iranian history and how the totally Islamic Revolution began. This novel was so good that I am in the process of spill to buy the follow-up to her novel. BibliographySatrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Paris Pantheon Books, 2003. Persepolis Essays -- Marjane SatrapiPersepolisAmazing, 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 advers ities 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. In the year of 1979 all that Marjane knew what it was like to not have to be agonistic into wearing a veil. Before the Islamic Revolution she was able to attend a a French Non-Religious school where girls and boys were allowed to study and play together. Unfortunately her world of carefree ness ended once the Islamic government decided to change their ways and force others to conform to their religious beliefs of what is right and wrong. Marjanne was raised by two very independent and brilliant parents who were upper middle class people. Her parents tried to raise her to believe that she could be anything that she wanted to be as long as she put her mind to it. Mr. Satrapi would give Marji books on communism and by Marz, because her father was a Marxist. Once the Islamic revolution to ok over Iran Marji had to wear the veil and was not allowed to go to school with her male friends because it is not of Islam for children of different sexes to be educated in a unisex school environment. Marjanes mother Mrs. Satrapi was a protester and her and her husband believed in protesting for things that they did not believe in. Protesting was seen as demonstrations that meant bad to all who participated in them. Well Mrs. Satrapi, was photographed by a German photographer in the act of protesting one day... ...had a law that if a virgin woman was against the Islamic Revolution she would be married first to her enemy and she would be de-virginized and then killed. I found this really appalling not only were these girls about to be killed because they had different opinions, but first their innocence would be taken from them. I really enjoyed this book and it made me sympathize with the good people in the Middle East. It was nice to see how Marjane Satrapi grew up and try to l earn how difficult life was for her and her people. This book made me really grateful for all that I have been blessed with through God. This novel taught me a lot about Iranian history and how the whole Islamic Revolution began. This novel was so good that I am in the process of going to buy the follow-up to her novel. BibliographySatrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Paris Pantheon Books, 2003.