The text Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi explores many lenses, but the most prominent are gender and culture. Marjane reveals how gender affects the daily lives of people in Iran, she also shows how her life and many other lives were affected due to the cultural changes in Iran. Marji also explains how difficult it can be growing up in Iran for children and how it affects them.
The chapter The veil explores gender inequality caused by the Islamic revolution and how it affected women and children in Iran. Marji was first affected by the Islamic Revolution in 1980 when women were forced to start wearing a veil. Making a law that forces women to wear something they don’t want to is wrong, everyone should have a choice to wear what they want. Most
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The revolution was the cause of many outrageous new laws one of which stated that women should cover their bodies and wear a veil in public. Marji and many other kids ignored this new law and continued to wear what they wanted “ Despite the new laws about clothing, many kids still wore what they wanted to, even if it meant getting arrested.” (p.132-133). If I was in the same predicament as Marji I would also wear anything I wanted to because it 's not right to tell someone how to dress in public. The Islamic law made drinking and smoking illegal, which made kids want to do it even more. Marji along with many kids started smoking and drinking because they thought it was cool, they also thought that smoking made you an adult. “ Marji kisses her childhood goodbye with her first cigarette.” (p. 117). If I was in Marji’s situation I wouldn 't smoke or drink because I know that it would affect my body. As a teen I wasn 't very rebellious, the worst thing I did was skip school. It doesn 't matter where you 're from, every teen is rebellious and makes poor choices at some point of their life, that 's why I think Marji is a