Blog two of PERCEPOLIS

What is Satrapi suggesting about the relationship between past and present, and between national and personal history? What role does her family, and the stories of her relatives, play in shaping Marji?

Satrapi is suggesting that the past and the present is two opposite things. They both have similarities but, the past brings more important memories because it is where everything happens; the bad, the good, and the excitement. The personal history is more important than history because personal keeps memories alive rather than the national history. Caring about the personal history is better o keep alive. Like keeping a village and heritage alive. But, at the same time, just for instance, the little boy from Minnesota that has a certain thing that is wrong with him I think and doesn't want a procedure to get him better because of religious beliefs. The roles her family, and the stories of her relatives play in shaping Marji is telling it all. Without her family and relatives around, she wouldn't have finished her story. The success of her story wouldn't have happened because her whole childhood life relied on her uncles being in prison and coming out to retell the life they experienced.

Written as a memoir, is percepolis more powerful than if Satrapi had fictionalized the story? Why or why not? Compare this book to other memoirs you have read. What are the benefits and drawbacks of memoirs?

I think Persepolis would have been powerful even if it was or wasn't fictionalized because I believe that to be successful in life, try and never give up. I know a lot of people who had read “Percepolis” and enjoyed every bit of text written or typed I guess but, yeah, ERIN IF YOU ARE READING THIS, SORRY FOR MY BLOG BEING SO LATE! I HAVE BEEN HAVING ISSUES!!! Ok, but, I don't think I have read any other memoirs except this one.

 “In spite of everything, kids were trying to look hip, even under risk of arrest”. (p. 112) How did they do this?....

Them kids in the story was super smart. Marji was super smart! She always looked hip, she got style all she had to do was wear the veil and cover up then she went everywhere looking hip. Covering up inside and looking better than me as a kid. She was a true Micheal Jackson fan having the Micheal Jackson sticker on her sweater at all times, singing man! Coolness man. During that time and the environment, as a child, I would have been staying home because I would be a girl being shocked and scared about the revolution but, would have been easily persuaded to go hip! Lol. I think Satrapi was a normal kid when she came to realize that her family was the most important to her when the bomb hit their neighborhood. I don't think she was ever a normal kid. I believe that every kid isn't normal but, themselves; who they were.