Persepolis Religion

Culture value has often changed thought time. Such as "Scientific Revolution" refers to changes that unfolded in Europe about thought, belief, and the changes in society. Some of life events might be too hard to explain with word that’s why In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Satrapi uses graphic novels as a way to demonstrate a ten years old girl that how she reacts to the world and his family helps her to make sense of what's going on around her. In other words, the use of graphic novels give us how Iranian Revolution changed all the things around Marjane as a child’s perspective, as the world changed around Marjane, her faith has changed too. At the opening of the book, Marjane, is ten years old girl who is facing Iranian Revolution, and

Later in book Marjane begins the chapter by saying “My faith was not unshakable” (10) this is a foreshadowing Marjane will slowly abandon her faith throughout the book. Additionally, throughout the story, Marjane has an imaginary friend that she refers that figure as God. An old man that look like Marx. Whenever Marjane is alone she talks to the figure and get advised. The figure encourages Marjane to be a prophet when she grows up. But later in book we going to see how god hardly appear in Marjane’s life after she changed. Should people believe everything that government told? This example, Marjane believe everything that school told to her. According the quote “He did so! It’s written on the first page of our schoolbook” (19), this quote showing that even though that she is learning about her country’s past, social, political, she is naïve enough to think that king is chosen by gods. The first time when Marjane got scared by the truth is when she heard the story about his grandfather that “sometimes they put him in a cell filled with water hours.”, immediately Marjane went to take long bath. That figure appeared to comfort her. Marjane will keep retuning to the figure in future whenever she is scared or vulnerable. She even stated in this quote” The only place I felt safe was in the arms of my friend"(52) this friend is referring to the figure which is

Under the surface there is The Shah’s falsehood, female suppression, and fundamentalist vs realist. People’s live are endangered if they don’t follow the laws. An example would be “They insulted me. They said that women like me should be pushed up against a wall and fucked. And then thrown in the garbage.” (74). This event happened when Marjane’s mother encounter a group of fundamentalist man that is angry at her because how she dressed is not like an Islamic woman. Marjane sees this action as a way of depriving a women’s identities and their value. But in the fundamentalist, man who do not follow the rule will be dehumanized their rights. This leads Marjane’s mother to experiences a violence and inhuman