Abigail Jessieca Liesar
English Composition 10
Mrs. Park
November 4th, 2014

Persepolis – Iran’s Class Inequity
At some point in your lives, you might have imagined or wished that there’s equality in our society, just like little Marji did. In Persepolis, The Story of A Childhood, Marji showed defiance against the existence of society classes. Marji stated that the reason of the revolution and the reason that she was ashamed for riding her father Cadillac is the same, which was because of the existence social classes in Iran. She realized that social classes made people in Iran could not receive an equal treatment in many things, like people with different social classes, can’t have relationship together and they could not receive education equally, especially people in lower social classes. I agreed with Marji, that social classes don’t need to exist, because social classes make a gap of unfairness in education and society treatment.

As you look more closely, we can see that the class disparity in Iran is getting worse. Even further worse after the revolution. At the start of the Iran-Iraqi war, the government of Iran used male children from poor area as worthless pions that can be lured easily with the plastic “keys to heaven” rewards. Shahab, Marji’s cousin even said, “It’s nuts! They hypnotize them and just toss them into battle. Absolute carnage. The key to paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with their keys around their necks.” While on the other hand, Peyman, Marji’s cousin, who had a fortunate family, said that he never been given that key. This proofs that the lives of these poor children in Iran weren’t valued as it should be. Before the revolution, children weren’t just fooled by something non-existent then thrown into a war to die. If there were no social classes, people like