The two different stories Persepolis and “The Lottery” are similar and yet different in many ways, such as temporary violence, people blindly follow what they are told, and how one community stays the same while the other goes through a drastic change. Both of the pieces of written contain People growing up in an environment that is very hostile for a Temporary part of time “A stone hit her in the side of the head.”(Jackson 220). This is one of the ending lines of “The Lottery” where all of the people are gathered in the center of the town to “win” the lottery. How the lottery is conducted is by people taking pieces of paper out of a box and whoever takes the piece of paper that has the black circle drawn on it “wins” then the rest of the …show more content…
As for the environment being hostile for a temporary amount of time in Persepolis this line of dialogue was stated by Mariane Satrapi “The scarf or a beating!” (76: ch. 10). During this chapter the main chapter and her parents go to an event where people are protesting women having to wear a scarf over their hair on their head in public later in this event men come and start beating people and the main character witness a women getting stabbed in the leg. This was one of the many acts of violence in this story, but in the beginning and the end of the book the violence is nowhere to be seen by the main character. Another theme that both of the books share is where people blindly follow what they are told from people who are above them in society and from leadership. In Persepolis how people blindly follow what they are told by leadership. “Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with their keys around their necks.”(102: ch. 13) What the young kids promised a better life with keys around their necks means is, how the government is teaching to young boys is that if they die in battle the key would be used to get into heaven causing many of the kids to happily charge into …show more content…
In Persepolis the group of people surrounding the main character changes by disobeying the government because of the crazy ideals that the government tries to force on them when previously they obeyed the government and their rules. “We had everything. Well everything that was forbidden even alcohol, gallons of it” (106: ch. 14). The main protagonist and her family and friends do this to celebrate an event even though it is strictly forbidden to have things such as wine at the celebration by the government, they also did this event to take their mind of the saddening war that was currently happening all around them. To continue the protagonist of Persepolis changes quite heavily over the course of this story, in the beginning she doesn’t seem to know what is happening or care why it is happening “It became obligatory to wear the veil a school. We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3: ch. 10) they didn’t understand why they had to wear the veil over the hair on their head but, in reality the government wanted this to be part of the culturally movement in Iran, but the main protagonist as child didn’t understand this and what the government was trying to do to the country and its culture, instead as a child she thought the veil was stupid