Satrapi makes it evidently clear with her stance against social classes and social injustice that all lives have value. Because of people’s worth, people should not suffer through that “diabolical feeling of power” (52). As a result, Satrapi promotes forgiveness and passiveness in her story. Significantly, she does this by having Marji’s mother and grandmother teach Marji life lessons about “reacting to [jerk’s] cruelty” (150). The impact of these life lessons on the reader makes Satrapi’s anti-war ideals more important to the reader. Satrapi also accentuates that the lives that suffer “in prisons defending freedom,… in the war in Iraq,… [or] under repressive regimes” should never be forgotten. This theme relates to the world today because there are many political and religious conflicts that lead to oppression and violence within communities. As a woman who has lived through a dictatorship, an internal war, and a war against another country, Satrapi expresses the need to recognize the cost of violence and respond to it
Satrapi makes it evidently clear with her stance against social classes and social injustice that all lives have value. Because of people’s worth, people should not suffer through that “diabolical feeling of power” (52). As a result, Satrapi promotes forgiveness and passiveness in her story. Significantly, she does this by having Marji’s mother and grandmother teach Marji life lessons about “reacting to [jerk’s] cruelty” (150). The impact of these life lessons on the reader makes Satrapi’s anti-war ideals more important to the reader. Satrapi also accentuates that the lives that suffer “in prisons defending freedom,… in the war in Iraq,… [or] under repressive regimes” should never be forgotten. This theme relates to the world today because there are many political and religious conflicts that lead to oppression and violence within communities. As a woman who has lived through a dictatorship, an internal war, and a war against another country, Satrapi expresses the need to recognize the cost of violence and respond to it