Part 2 The Story of a Return takes off with Marjane’s independent flee from the Iranian regime, to Vienne. We witness this world through the eyes of an innocent yet curious child (who idolizes, and hold imaginary conversations with, Allah and Karl Marx) - a world in which you shouldn’t believe every thing your teacher teach, or anything you think. Part 1: The Story of a Childhood recounts Marjane’s childhood in Iran (1970s), admist a tumultuous revolutionary times that allowed few freedoms. The absence of color in Persepolis is significant in portraying the dichotomies of freedom and oppression, faith and rejection, belonging and disorientation. Marjane, raised in an upper-class, intellectual, “modern” family, is lucky she has parents who will tolerate her punk phase and throw parties of their own, in a time when these acts are illegal. Together, the two parts of Persepolis are an exploration of traditional Islam and progressive Western ideologies. Or watch (it’s also adapted into an animated film. If you haven’t read it, make it the next thing you read. ~A graphic depiction of the Iranian revolution and one girl’s estranged coming of age in clashing cultures~
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