Innocence In Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi portrays her depression and shift from innocence in her book The Complete Persepolis. She uses colors and memories to show her true feelings. There is a major shift from her innocence to corruption of knowledge about war around the time she leaves for Vienna. She felt the weight of Iran in a place she was supposed to be safe.
Right up until Satrapi leaves for Vienna, she can be seen wearing white in her clothing on almost every page. After this point, she can be seen wearing white only five times. She is portraying the depression that she was spiraling into and the how she was no longer the child that found good in things. The white symbolized her innocence and happiness she could still find during the war. The black represented her understanding of war and her unhappiness. It shows how affected she had been, even when she was no longer affected by the war.
On page 194, she dreams of some good memories but mostly bad memories from Iran and says she wishes her past would disappear. She is showing that she often dwelled on the past and bad memories are often most prominent to her. She is showing the readers that Iran haunted her even after she left. She views herself as oppressed and surrounded by haunting memories. Her bad memories became the depression that she would fall into.
Satrapi often forgot about the good times and it drove her into a depression. She became the oppressed woman she would’ve been in Iran, but she became it while in Vienna. She still felt the weight of the war and her depression covered her in the black veil even though she was outside of Iran. Her knowledge of war lead her to become depressed, even when she was no longer being