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One of the closures in the book is at page (52), Ahmadi was the one that has been cut into pieces. Although it is all by Marji's imagination, but we can able to predict what is going to happen when they get arrested, this scene helped Marji to create a sense of fear of the unknown ending for those people who get caught. “The Letter” is the fifth chapter in this graphic novel Persepolis. This chapter is really important for the story because it is about the differences between the social classes in Iran. Mehri's family was living in a really low social class and with fifteen children to feed, under the pressure of living they had to give away eight years old Mehri as a maid. After two years Marji was born, they almost did everything together and the social class was irrelevant to them. This chapter focuses mainly on the letters sent between Mehri and Hossein, the neighbour’s son. The case that Marji is writing letters for them relates to the idea of different social classes. Unlike Marji, the lower classes were unable to get well educated, they cannot even write a letter to express their feelings and they cannot fall in love with someone who is living in higher class because all people think that was wrong. Of course, Mehri and Hossein stopped contacting after Hossein knows that Mehri is not Marji’s sister, instead she is an actual maid. This fact brings up a confusion in Marji’s childhood, she could not understand why people must separate each classes specifically. In my opinion, I think the last panel in page (153) is the most important. It happens at the airport when Marji is going to depart from Iran to Australia, the reason of leaving was to send her way for study but the real purpose was to keep Marji safe, her parents are really worried about her because of Marji’s behaviours in Iran during the war. In the picture, Marji turned around to have

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