Examples Of Foreshadowing In Persepolis

“ Maybe God Helped Them Nevertheless” ( Satrapi pg:22) The quote that Marji uses as a ten year old young girl's point of view in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, shows her thoughts after hearing a story her father told her. Many young children and families still find ways of coping with family and friends deaths. This begins with family history and different events that build up through the novel. Marji and many others are incapable of understanding why all the chaos of people dying is happening either the wrongdoing or disobedience of veil restrictions, certain activities, they are experiencing the loss, death and destruction since they are denied the right of not wearing the veil and moreover speak against their regime or act behalf the rules.

This loss of innocence is as well reflected in the way that they seem to have a change in relationship. As they grow older and become more aware of the world around them. The destruction of their innocence and naivety of being children, for example the relationship between Marji and her parents has on her. They are cherishing and caring towards her however it can be stressful and tense. Marjane uses her family as an impact that has happened to show how much power her parents have over her that it makes her feel a certain way. Marji stated "For a revolution to succeed the entire population must support it” (Satrapi pg:17) Marji uses this quote to demonstrate that she is capable of being able to go and protest at the ‘‘demonstration” similar to her mother. Marji denied the right of not being able to go although her parents wanted to protect her since the Shah made them even more violent. Once Marji received her parents approval of taking her along to the “demonstration” even though her father did not agree with the idea of Marji going along with her mother because it was too dangerous for her and too young, her mother decided otherwise to take her to start fighting along defending the women's rights. Marji finally sees why her parents had told her at the beginning that she was too young to go to the demonstrations. Marji stated “ Things got worse from one day to the next. In September 1980, My parents abruptly planned a vacation. I think they realized that soon such things would no longer be possible. As it happened, they were right. And so we went to Italy and Spain for three weeks.” ( Starapi pg: 77). Due to all the chaos that happened with the demonstration Marji finally saw that the revolution could get worse and would