Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Persepolis is a story of childhood through Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Iran. Much of the graphic novel focusses on the author’s family during the Iran-Iraq War. The story is a personal memoir of Satrapi’s own life, which also leads into a larger event in history. Satrapi is the protagonist throughout the entire graphic novel. The character of Marji’s growth is shaped by her personal history and her community and demonstrates the theme of the inescapability of culture and family in determining one’s identity.With this also comes people in her life that have great impacts.

The title of the book is the ancient capital of Persia, Persepolis. At a deeper level, it suggests a theme of stress and hardship between the past and the present. Persepolis once was a great historical city in Persia but now holds the the graves of many Persian kings. Persepolis represents a great change in culture. The author of the graphic novel to compares the past great culture of persia, with the modern day culture of Iran, where there is intolerance and fundamentalism.
The chapter, “The Bicycle.” is where the history gets explained. “The Bicycle” in this chapter represents the past revolutions, the past invasions and the past ideas that can be reflected upon. In this novel it is easy for a reader to gain a connectetion with the author because she actually kuved these events and we as readers get a sense of the true emotions. Persepolis creates a viewpoint like no other, it gives the reader a view from a child's perspective during the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq