There was a time where people lived in sadness and surrounded by the darkness of the world decades ago when war took over like a raging sea. The setting of the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi illustrates what it was like in a country that was in constant war and gives the experience she faced as an author during that time. The main character, Marjane, was not your average little girl. In the book she grew up with a loving family, but when war started it set things in motion that would affect not only her life, but other people's lives. With the constant threat of bombs, oppression of the soldiers strict regime, and religion had affected Satrapi live as a kid. Marijane grew up knowing and hearing about the deaths of war and protests of change. …show more content…
In Persepolis there are two types of oppression shown in the book that would leave any person speechless. The first part of oppression that is shown is the culture of why Muslim women wear Burkas. Women use to have the freedom to wear western clothes to show their individuality, but thanks to the war the men started to have built up testosterone and started to rape the women. They started to put the blame on women themselves for wearing exposed clothing, and showing skin, or hair which made the men become sexul predators. Reading this part was a surprise because women wore burkas to cover themselves from the men and it became sort of a habit for women to wear it in modern time now. I use to think it was part of their religion that the women would wear something like that, but the idea to cover themselves comes from an even darker origin then I had originally thought. In a way this is not surprising as men use their power to suppress women from doing anything considered wrong to them. In modern times men still do that by degrading them as sexual objects and if they are raped most of the women do not admit what has happened. Men with power and even women too like those of the police have a hold on the women and make sure what they are claiming is the truth, but if it was for any other claim like a beating they would go right on it without any