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Persepolis Movie Essay

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Persepolis is a movie about a girl named Marjane living in Iran during the revolution and her struggles through that time. The movie starts with the girl being young and ends with the girl in her mid-20’s. it shows Marjane issues she faced every day, her relationship with her family and guys, her ideology of communism, and her love hate relationship with Iran.
The Iran revolution was a fight against the Shah the current leader of Iran during 1979. The people didn’t like that he was Westernizing Iran and even torturing civilians. America backed the shah so America had a heavy influence on the Shahs decisions. After the Shahs brutality became too much the Iran people started a revolution and put the Islamic Khomeini leader.
Marjane at the very
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