One of my favorite aspects of Persepolis is how the view of the surrounding events is seen through the eyes of an adolescent. It allows the reader to see everything in a naive and innocent way as well. learning about the negativity that surrounds her, and the innocence she uses to understand it, allows the audience of the story to analyze what is happening in an unbiased way. It becomes evident in the novel the disconnection that is made between the home life of our narrator, and her societal life. It seems as if it connects very well to the different aspects of American life we've touched upon in class. Although there is discrimination and racism all over the place within our society, our society, as did the Iranian, expects people to just suck it up and move on. It is about becoming complacent and not fighting back; allowing those in control to easily manipulate society in the ways in which they see necessary.
With that in mind, I find it interesting that in the beginning of the novel, Satrapi says that she wrote Persepolis in part so “that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.” While being complacent in her society, the novel itself points out many of the wrong doings within Iran, which can easily point out the wrong doings in our own country. A question I looked at when I finished this novel was how Satrapi judges Iran as a nation by the end of the novel, and if that judgement was her way of actively sticking up for those who are not to be blamed? Just a thought...
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