Marji In Persepolis

Coco Chanel once said, “The most courageous act is to think for yourself, out loud!”. In the autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, Marji does exactly that. Persepolis depicts Marji’s life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and how she finds herself and becomes more independent and rebellious by thinking for herself. Over several years, this novel follows Marji and the changes that she makes to gain her independence and how becoming independent means that she also becomes more rebellious. Along her journey, there are many factors that influence Marji’s life. Because of how her friends and family act, war restrictions forced upon her and her family, and trauma that Marji experiences, she becomes more independent and rebellious.
The first cause of Marji’s desire for independence is how her friends and family act. With many changes going on in Marji’s life, she wants to fit in, even if it might mean that she has to break the rules to do so. Fitting in is one way of Marji trying to find herself and becoming independent. One way that Marji tries to fit in is by making friends. The girls that she wants to become friends with are older than her, and because of this, she has to change how she acts in order to fit in with them. Marji has generally always followed the rules until meeting these two older girls. Her new friends influence her greatly. When Marji is first becoming friends with them, they invite her to skip class to go get
All of the events that she experiences greatly impacts her. From making new friends, to trying to make a statement through fashion, to her Uncle Anoosh dying, each event gave her some form of independence. If Marji hadn’t spoken out loud and thought for herself in those events, she wouldn’t be the independent, outspoken, risk taker that she was at the end of the