What Is Marjane's Journey Through Persepolis

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of a young girl named Marjane and her family trying to survive through the Iranian Revolution. Throughout her childhood, Marjane experiences death, violence, and extreme oppression until her parents send her to Vienna, Austria. Persepolis helped me understand the Iranian Revolution better because it shows how the revolution affects the everyday person, compared to the whole country.

Marjane’s journey through Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is told through many short chapters, that all show Marjane’s adjustment to a revolution filled Iran. The first chapter, and possibly the most important, shows Marjane’s first time trying on her headscarf. Marjane’s, and most Iranian women at the time, headscarf shows their oppression during the revolution.

Marjane’s family is a part of the revolution, and because of this Marjane becomes very educated about the revolution. Marjane’s father is constantly attending protests, and her mother was even photographed at a protest. Her Uncle Anoosh was one of the original revolutionaries for Iran, and flees from Iran to the Soviet Union. He returns to Iran later in the novel, and educates Marjane about the revolutions

This can be seen in many parts of the novel, but most notably with Marjane’s Uncle Anoosh. After the ‘Russian Spy’ was executed, Marjane tried to recover from the loss by remembering her Uncle by saying “Everything will be alright... Everything will be alright” (Satrapi, 70). That is what she repeated over and over again to calm herself after her ‘fight with God’. This situation is obviously not exclusive to her, as many people in Iran experienced losses of loved ones, and tried to remember them in the best ways they