Symbolism was also evident in the use of the cigarettes. Cigarettes were used amongst the many characters throughout this novel and was used in a way to help characterize many moments in this literature, and to provide the readers an opportunity of a more deeper and meaningful understanding of the text. When Marjane Satrapi had her first cigarette, she coughs and says “with this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye, Now I was a grown-up” (Satrapi, 117). The cigarette posed at the bridge from being a young, naive kid, to adulthood. With the lighting of her first cigarette, she is then burning the bridge of her innocence, of her childhood. The cigarette in Persepolis signifies a sign of growing up. Cigarettes represent adulthood