Memoirs In Persepolis Book

Persepolis is a memoir about a girl named Marjane, who grew up during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane remembers growing up when there was a Shah, the king, the outcome of the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. Marjane was growing up when huge political and social changes were happening the Iranians. Marjane starts the book with the people trying to overthrow the Shah. She illustrates the movements that were going on, even her own parents were in on the action. After the Shah is taken down, the book moves toward the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. Both of these events were huge changes for Marjane; both physically and mentally. The only downfall with the book is that it’s a memoir about her life, so in this case we barely know anything happened outside of her family, which is why memoirs are not good references. Memoirs are not essentially all bad, they have certain characteristics about them that make memoirs unique. For starters, the memoir is based on the author; i.e. what the author went/was going through. In this

Memoirs are only based on one person, the author. Even though, Marjane remembers key facts about her childhood, it is only in her perspective. She is also a child during the time so how reliable is she really? Maybe she only remembers certain pieces and makes up others. As a reader, we would not know if she were telling the truth or not. We are assuming that everything is correct in terms of the history behind the time period, but there is no way for us to be completely sure of it unless we were to look for more information based on this time period, which defeats the purpose of using this for learning history. It does give us an insight, but in order to make sure that the information is correct, we are having to do more research which no one should have to do if they were learning