Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Persepolis

The story was very interseting, at first. The first couple of pages, mind you. The main character, Marjane, is what you would believe a child would be during the Islamic Revolution: naive, childish, and kept in the dark. Marjane wanted to become a prophet and change the world, even speaking to God about her problems. They would talk, and even add humor with their conversations when the story got dark. She began to talk about Fidel Castro, Che, and many other communists that her parents respected; even her grandfather was a communist. In fact, her granfather was actually a prince went suddenly became a prime minister. He has even been arrested on various occasions because he has protested against the way the King ruled. She would go protest in her front yard, because she was to younge to actually do anything. Eventually she noticed the social classes and hated it, always wondering why her maid was different from her. To her they were like sisters, and nothing could stop that, not even social classes.

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