Graphic images affect how any reader sees or reads an image. In a book where a character gets beat up, a bloody image will affect the reader more than an image where there is no blood. Marjane Satrapi’s use of graphic images in her book, Persepolis, affect how the reader sees social classes, loss of innocence and gender roles in Iranian culture. One might think a situation is not a big deal, but when a graphic image portrays the situation, a reader truly sees the importance of the situation. In the book, Persepolis, one major theme throughout is social classes. In the image, it demonstrates the theme by describing social classes within a high school setting. High school social classes are a bit different than Iranian social classes though. In the book, Marjane represented the theme by describing her relationship with her servant and different events that took place involving her servants. She really demonstrates social classes by describing how her maid fell in love with the neighbor’s son, and how she was heartbroken after he “dumped” her after finding out she was a maid (Satrapi 37). This theme connects to my thesis because in the book it describes another event revolving around social classes (Satrapi 99-102). The government gave the uneducated, “unloved”, “unneeded”, poorer and “lesser” boys keys to paradise as a way of getting them to go to war. The graphic images on page 102 depicting the poor boys dying in flames and the wealthy kids partying accurately depicts