Persepolis blog 2

Persepolis is organized into small stories that talk about different things the main character experienced. The stories also go in order as none of them go back and forth in herchildhood, so this means that it is easy to follow. Although the whole book it self does not have all the components of a story, the small stories inside the book have the clear beginning, rising action, climax, etc. In this book Satrapi, the author, chose to emphesis somethings in her childhood, these things where obvious because they where mensioned many times. She focused mostly on the political revolution aspect of her childhood as her own country, Iran, was experiencing a political revolution. When talking about all the things in her childhood time was presented by telling us certian dates that where historically important in Iran's political past. These dates were days that she thought was important enough to mention specifically what year it was. Satrapi's drawings are very simple, they are 2D and not alot of detail was put into them at some points it looks like the drawing where from a 4th grader. Although the drawings are like this they do add to the narrative by emphesising the important parts of the book because the most important parts of the book have the most abstract and impresive drawings.
In this book the writers voice is very strong because the writer happens to be the main character in the book. This makes the voice of the writer appeal because the story of the main character was the story of the writer making the writing very authentic and truthful. The main character, maji, is a character that gets stronger as the story goes on but she never changes her attitude toward most things though. There is a certain part of her that I identify with and it is her pride for her country, I have the same amount of pride for my country, Ethiopia, as she has shown in this book. The part though that I identify with the least is her risk taking which I see as dangerous from my view, as some of the stuff she pulled was extremely dangerous and she was lucky she got away from it. This way my reaction to the girl caused me to read this book in a way where I found my self feeling that something bad was going to happen to her in everystory.
The revolution was a time where the rule of the country was changing from the leadership of a king to the leadership of religious people who wanted Islamic rules instated. So they force upon all the people the rules of Islam including no drinking, no parting, etc. They also made women where veil to stop men from looking at them and there was alot of security out to inforce these rules. There was no way to protest peacefully because all opposition was met by execution and that pretty much backed everybody up. Even though satrapi's parents where educated and known what was wrong, the force of the religious leader were too strong and they had to follow their way wether they liked it or not. This is part of the reason why so many people flew the country during the revolution, the other part was that there was a war between Iran and Iraq, which Iran was losing in. In this war the Iraq army was bombing many Iranian city and it became unsafe, so many people wanted to move from Iran. For these reasons and more marji's parents sent her of to live in Austria because they thought she would be happier there. They did not follow her after she left because they where probably happier staying in Iran instead of tring to make a living in another country.