This essay will focus on this book: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/persepolis-1.pdf
Also, I do already have some in text citations from Persepolis which I want included in the essay which are:
“I was truly unsure what to make of the veil. Though I was a devout Muslim my family was very progressive and avant-garde. ” (Satrapi 6)
she said “I was overjoyed for her. Her photograph was published in every newspaper in Europe. ” Marjane’s admiration for political opposition is shown in (Satrapi 5)
“The year of the revolution, I had to act” (Satrapi 10)
“The Revolution is like a bicycle, when the wheel breaks.”(Satrapi 11)
“the revolution has finally awoken the people after a 2,500-year slumber.” (Satrapi 12)
“I knew everything about the Palestinian girls, Fidel Castro, the young Vietnamese killed by Americans, and my country’s revolutionaries.” (Satrapi 12)
“He has been waiting for this moment. He has always wanted an invasion of Iran, and this justifies his wish. This is the Arabs’ second invasion.”(Satrapi 79)
“This is the second Arab invasion in 1400 years! My blood was boiling. I was prepared to defend my country against these Arabs who tried to harass us. (1979, Satrapi, p. 79)
“We got them where it hurts!”(Satrapi 84)
“This is the second Arab invasion in 1400 years! My blood was boiling. I was prepared to defend my country against these Arabs who tried to harass us”(Satrapi 79)
“those assholes!”(Satrapi 79)
“As for me, I immediately began mocking them” (Satrapi 97)
“Naturally, the government became more totalitarian, and in the name of the fighting, they exterminated the enemy on the inside,” she explained as she walked down the basement stairs. 114.1–117.1 (Satrapi)
by smoking the cigarette I stole from my uncle two weeks ago, I sealed my first act of rebellion against my mother’s tyranny.” Marjane continued, “With this first cigarette, I kissed my childhood goodbye; now I am an adult” (Satrapi 117). 116 (Satrapi)
“no scream could have alleviated my agony and anger.” (141) (Satrapi)
“I was fourteen years old and a rebel at the time, and nothing scared me anymore.”
“My uncle was imprisoned by the Shah’s government, but his execution was ordered by the Islamic regime.” You assert that we are no longer held hostage by political forces. However, our prison population has risen from 3000 under the Shah to 300,000 under your regime. How dare you lie to us in such a way. ” 145 (Satrapi).
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