Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Often critics refer to books as a piece of the author's soul, this is true in many cases as the author transfers their emotions and opinions into their novels. Marjane Satrapi has done just that, she has put her emotions and desires into her novel Persepolis and has given readers a look inside her life in the process. Satrapi uses her book to show readers just how different life is in her home country than one may think, she uses sociological theory points to help portray how unfair and sexist her home country's government is. Satrapi also uses marxist theory to show how the government can do whatever they want since they hold the power in the country and can control the media. Feminist theory is a very prominent theory that Satrapi has used

Sociological theory helps show how marji thinks that her society is flawed and unfair towards to women of all ages much like her own society. Women are told not to speak out and to wear veils and black clothing that covered their whole bodies, the only thing that is shown are their faces. “Women’s hair emanates rays that excite men! That’s why women should cover their hair!” says the shaw while talking about while the veil is needed (Satrapi, 74). Marji responds to this by refusing to wear the veil the right way and fights against the veil throughout the whole book. Marji had to wear this veil in her life just like her book character, so you can infer that the feelings of unfairness in the book that she mentions often are the same feelings she had herself. Satrapi also brings attention to the unfairness towards education in her book. Satrapi first introduces the idea of religion being mixed into and affecting their religion when she is suddenly no longer in a co-ed class and her only language is english in her school unlike the french non-religious school she used to have. Satrapi firsts writes

Marji demands that her parents take her to participate in the revolution and make a difference even if she's only a young girl, she wants to show everyone just how strong and important to this revolution she is. “For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it” (Satrapi,17), Marji says to her parents after they have told her she is not allowed to go to the demonstration because she may get hurt. Marji refuses to take no for an answer and wants to prove that she is needed to help this revolution continue. She does not think that revolting is just for men, she knows she can be useful as well. This relates to Satrapi’s life because instead of sitting on the sidelines, she went out and wrote a book about the struggles that her people are facing and is bringing attention to the issue. This is her own way of helping. Satrapi also may have written her book Persepolis, because books are where she learnt a lot of her knowledge from in her early years. Satrapi didn’t let being a young woman stop her from gaining all the knowledge she could through books, and eventually she became a writer that passed on knowledge as