Comparing Persepolis And Marjane's The Diary Of Anne Frank

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi grew up very religeous with very large aspirations and strong political views of her proud country. The then watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution. However, as Marji grows up she sees first hand how the new Iran, ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, is a repressive tyranny on its own. Mari rebels because of the harsh rules on daily life ruled by religion. With Marji dangerously reveling and refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her to Vienna alone and she is forced to leave the life she knows and start a new one all alone at only thirteen years old and she isn't sure if she'll ever see her family again.

In The Diary of Anne Frank there is both a harsh standard set by a banine ruler forcing a religion apron an entire population, although Aldof Hitler was worse than he Iranian Shah there is still a similarity of growing up in struggle. Living in a world where you can't be who you want to be, growing up and feeling alone, not getting to experience the things that normal children get to experience are some of the many similarities between Anne Frank and Marji Satrapi. Both of these stories are true and written from the main characters perspective. Two adolescent girls learning to adapt and trying to fit in during a country wide revolution. These two characters have a lot in common considering he fact that they have many friends, dreams, and loved ones before the struggle in the story and when conflict arises in these stories the girls want to be somewhere else. Unfortunately, when they get the chance to leave the situation they get separated from their