The Devil’s Highway written by Luis Alberto Urrea and Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi both independently advance and develop the notion of borders in their works. Although the generalized idea of borders is evident in the palpable content of their books; the types of borders themselves, as well as the purpose in writing it, is where their works begin to separate. In the Devil’s Highway, Urrea introduces the idea of an economic border between the United States and Mexico in attempts to draw awareness of the state of being in Mexico, and hopes that through these ideas individuals realize that the mass immigration into the United States is due to those existing economic issues; while Satrapi discusses the idea of cultural borders between