Harry Chin
Professor Knapp
English 1A
3 April 2013
Reader Response #1: Persepolis
I can actually relate to this
based on my own experience. As you can see when I was younger as any other
child, I believed in Santa Claus. I always believe that the presents in front
of the Christmas tree during Christmas were brought by Santa Claus. Somehow, my
logic rejected reality and I truly believed Santa could fit through my chimney
even though I couldn’t myself. One Christmas Eve before Christmas was the night
where I discovered the truth. When I reach a certain age, I was able to
distinguish between the reality and the falsest of Santa Claus. I discovered
that my parents were the ones who put the presents in front of the Christmas
tree. After I realized it, I want to discover many other truths about the world
and prove if everything that I once believed in was true. The moral of the
story is that one should be a willing to understand the difference between
reality and fantasies. If one just lives in their own little world with their
own beliefs, then everybody will be oblivious and nobody will get along. Just as
Marji realized that the outside world is not what it seems like when she
understands more about this system she goes deeper into it. When she realized
this, at such a young age, she was able to make such an intelligent decision
and became interested in studying more on the history and past of her hometown.
Margie was one intelligent person who is able to understand all this is so
short time. This is interesting because Margie at such a young age was able to
comprehend all this information in such a short time. Unluckily now, she is too
young and her parents wouldn’t allow her to protest in the revolution because
many people were killed during these protests. But I foreshadow that but after
couple more years she'll be more involved with the protest and the revolutions.
Persepolis is a short comic based
on the author’s childhood in Iran throughout the Iraq and Iranian war. It
begins with a young girl named Marji as child who after the Islamic war. During
that time, the government made it a law that girls in the country had to wear
veils. Marji has had a hard time understanding the meaning of the veil due to
her family backgrounds. She later believed that she could become the prophet,
the person who can solve all the problems in the world. Later, she realizes the
history of the past about her country and how god did not select the king or
partake in any role was all false. She devoted herself into reading and gaining
as much knowledge as possible. Then she finally understood was about social
class issues and the difference between her and her maid.
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