The story of Persepolis focuses on a young girl, Marji, and her experience in dealing with Iranian culture. She is growing up in an area devastated by war and a very controlling government. Gender separation had become prevalent throughout the country and the division between men and women was wider than ever before. Family and friends were being executed by being suspected as spies With all of this in her life, Marji decides to leave the country and flee to Vienna. This is where she starts to see the world differently and see that not everywhere in the world is as controlling as her home country. During her time in Vienna, she also became aware of how differently the world looks at her as well. The veil that she would wear felt like a constant remind of home and having to hide her true identity. This …show more content…
Many of them are trapped there and have no choice but to obey their laws or risk losing the ones that they love. This is very important giving the time and release of this novel since after 9/11 tensions were high against any Muslim from the middle east and a negative picture was painted that they were all violent like the terrorist that perpetrated the horrible act. Reading this novel opens the eyes of many people who, beforehand, would be frightened by seeing a Muslim walking down the street. This book does have limitations as well. Where it does not describe the horrid events in detail about how terrible it would be to live in this government, it cannot be understood unless one personally go through the events themselves. For an American that does not have to worry about safety of his or her family on day to day basis, it would be it hard for that person to truly comprehend the messages behind the words of the novel. Some people would still be naive and believe that all muslims are bad and negative, it is impossible to sway everyone’s