Marjane Sartrapi's Persepolis

Clearly the rich cultural and historical content of the work Persepolis that his excellent plot has led available as not only comic, but has also been made into a film. Both contextualize narrating the events in Tehran (Iran) and the many cultural aspects that were developed there. The author, Marjane Sartrapi, manages to reflect on how her life story from childhood unfolds. Looking at the book from the context of the narrator at the time of writing, you can see the narrow gap between what was her life and "Persepolis.” She and her family, with pain, live the restrictions of individual liberties, repression, imposition of veiling of women and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, the new regime used to consolidate. While she grows, Marji realizes that the new Islamic regime that her parents fought has fallen into the hands of fundamentalists and that does not bring anything good. In the movie and the comic, the reader and viewer is

Marji’s first maid in the beginning of the story, Mehri, is not mentioned in the movie. Marji was eight years old when Marji started working for her family. Mehri falls for Marji’s next-door neighbor named Hossein and she use’s Marji to write love letters for her because she cannot write. Marji’s father knew about Mehri’s love for Hosssein and took it upon himself to go tell him to stop seeing her because she was a maid, which meant she was from a lower class. Marji’s father tried to explain his reasoning to Marji because she thinks it is unfair how lower class people are treated and he tells her that she “must understand that their love was impossible (Pg. 37).” People in Iran at the time would stay within their social class so when Hossein received the news about Mehri, he rejected her. Mehri character is important to the story because it shows how social class was a big issue in