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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

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The graphic novel Persepolis was written by Marjane Satrapi based on her childhood memories during the Islamic Revolution. She showed how the Revolution changed the lives of many people causing them to act, behave, and change to fit the situation they were presented in. The country had separated in two parts, people who were for the veil and people who were against it. Before the Islamic Revolution Satrapi was an ordinary and happy kid, she states “In 1979, we were in a French non-religious school. Where boys and girls were together” (Satrapi 4). However, in 1980 the Revolution came and every aspect of life had changed. While the boys were in one classroom the girls were in another. Satrapi explains how at this time of the Islamic Revolution
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