Complete Persepolis

Overall I feel that the story was very well written (and drawn) and that it was a good idea by Marjane Satrapi to present her story in a graphic novel format. By creating a story with pictures explaining the words she was able to reach teenagers as well as adults and keep both interested throughout the work. Although not everyone will be able to relate, by having her story out there and available she is showing that not all Iranians are the way that American culture has been lead to believe and that she feels that the actions that are shown coming from her country are more or less just because the people are being repressed by a government who doesn't seem to place it's people first. I thought that the marriage scene in the story was incredibly important. It really shows how different Iranian culture is from American or French culture. Marji and Reza are a couple, but not married and everywhere they go they find that it is difficult for them to do anything together without being married. So Reza asks Marji to marry him and although Marji goes around and around about it she accepts. My question is though, although she loves him, does she just accept for the convenience? It seems like she does, her father already knows that the marriage will fall apart, but he feels that it is important for Marji to realize that herself. Love can be blinding so it makes sense that Marji felt that it would work between them, but if her father could see it, then all Marji would have had to do was take a step back and she would have seen it too. All in all it was a good book, I feel that it had equal parts of happy and sad, but didn't leave the reader feeling depressed at the end.