Persepolis Essay

The book that I have chosen to write on is “Persepolis”, by Marjane Satrapi. I’m going to explain how the first few pages in the book perfectly describes the four points which are nationality, race, gender, and sexuality. This book is a story about a childhood of a little girl.
In 1979, the Islamic revolution took place. Then in 1980, it was mandatory for kids to wear veils to school. They didn’t really like wearing the veils because they did not understand why they had to. This was a very big change for the children because the year before, they were in a French non-religious school. It was normal for boys and girls to be together while at school, but after the Islamic Revolution things changed. In 1980, all bilingual schools were shut down. The Bilingual schools were shut down because they were symbols of capitalism. This is what they called a cultural revolution. The government was not going to put up with it, so they veiled the children and separated them from their friends. In the society, there were people who were for the veil and there were people who were against the veil. That all comes back to people’s religious beliefs. A German journalist took a photo of the girl’s mother,
In all of the French non-religious schools, the boys and girls had to be separated by gender. This is a very big change in the Islamic Revolution compared to what they are used to. Due to religious purposes, children did not understand the meaning behind the separation from their friends. The Islamic Revolution did not allow the boys and girls to be together. Back then, they were big on gender and how boys and girls would be around each other. The world is no longer comfortable with boys and girls being together. Being judged by our gender is not right by any means, but according to the Islamic Revolution, none of that mattered. However the Islamic Revolution wanted it to be is how it was going to be