PERSEPOLiS BLOG # 2

Q: DESCRIBE THE WRITER'S VOICE. IS IT APPEALING? WHICH ASPECTS OF MARJI'S CHARACTER DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH OR LIKE THE MOST, THE LEAST? DID YOUR REACTION TO THE LITTLE GIRL AFFECT YOUR READING EXPERIENCE?

A: TO ME, THE WRITER' S VOICE HAD LIKE SORROW IN IT, MAYBE BECAUSE ALL THAT "HER" COUNTRY WAS GOING THROUGH. IT ALSO HAD LIKE DETERMINAATION IN IT, LIKE MARJI IN THE STORY SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ALERT AND KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHO WAS THAT GOOD AND BAD GUY IN THE SITUATION. I LIKE THAT MARJI IS VERY INTELLIGENT AND OUTSPOKEN, I CAN RELATE TO THAT BECAUSE THAT IS HOW I AM. I LIKE TO KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN MY COMMUNITY AND ALSO MY COUNTRY [ NOSEY HUH? LOL ]. NO THE REACTION DIDNT MAKE ME LOOK AT HER DIFFERENT, IF ANYTHING IT MADE ME RELATE WITH HER ON HER CHARACTER, SO NO, IT MADE ME UNDERSTAND THE BOOK MORE

Q: " IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, KIDS WERE TRYING TO LOOK HIP, EVEN UNDER RISK OF ARREST." (P. 112) HOW DID THEY DO THIS? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE DONE HAVE YOU BEEN A CHILD IN THIS ENVIORMENT? WHAT ACTS OF REBELLION DO YOU DO AS A TEEN? IN WHAT WAYS IS SATRAPI JUST A NORMAL KID?

A: WELL THEY WORE "AMERICAN" STUFF LIKE MARJI; SHE WORE NIKES, LISTEN TO THE LATEST PUNK MUSIC, HAD JACKETS WITH MICHEAL JACKSON ON IT. I FEEL I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME. A LOT OF COUNTRIES LOOK UP TO THE UNITED STATES AND "COPY" THIER FASHION TRENDS, SO YEAH IF I WAS IN THIS ENVIORMENT GROWNING UP I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING. I HAVE REBELLED AGAINST A COUPLE OF THINGS, LIKE MY BED TIME [ WHEN I WAS YOUNGER:)...HASN'T EVERYONE?! ] BUT SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT...HMMM I WOULD HAVE TO SAY POLICE BRUTALITY. MY DAD WAS BEAT BY THE POLICE FOR NO REASON AND THAT ISNT FAIR, WE CAN HELP WHAT SKIN COLOR WE ARE AND EVEN IF WE COULD WE SHOULDNT BE JUDGED BY "THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER"- DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. YEA; I THINK SHE'S A REGULAR KID WHO IS GROWNING UP IN A DIFFICULT TIME FOR HER COUNTRY.


Q: WHAT KIND OF CAPTIVITY AND FREEDOM DOES THE AUTHOR EXPLORE IN PERSEPOLIS? WHAT STIFLES OR PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM BEING COMPLETELY FREE? HOW DO THEY CIRCUMVENT AND DEFY THE RULES IMPOSED ON THEM AND ATTEMOT TO LIVE ORDINARY LIVES DESPITE REVOLUTION AND WAR? GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF THEIR SMALL ACTS OF REBELLION?

A: THE KIND OF CAPTIVITY THAT THE IRANIANS HAVE ARE THAT THE WOMEN CANT WALK AROUND IN PUBLIC WITHOUT WEARING THIER VEIL. THEY CANT DRINK ALCOHOL EITHER. ONE EXAMPLE OF REBELLON WAS WHEN MARJI WENT TO GET THT PUNK CD AND SHE WAS NOT WARING HER VEIL. SHE WAS WEARING HER NIKE SHOES. A JACKET WITH MICHEAL JACKSON ON IT!