Question 1)
I believe Marjane Satrapi beings her story Persepolis with the veil because she wants to show her and some of her peoples true feelings about the veil. How the veil can be seen through a child's eyes and how most people in Iran saw these rules and fast changes that went on in their country throughout the 1980s and so on.
Question 2)
If I were to write a memoir of my life it would begin when I was adopted from Lima, Peru when I was 1, by my mother and father who were from California. I would start my memoir off with this event because this was one of the biggest changes in my young life. This event determined whether I would grow up to be an American which in Persepolis, Satrapi doesn't speak very highly of Americans. Or was I to grow up living in poor conditions, with poor education and opportunity but maybe have more understanding of farming and how nature works.
Sounds like it would be a really interesting memoir. :)
ReplyDeleteI've been to Lima, Peru when I went on a deployment called 'CP11", meaning Continuing Promise 2011. Where United States, partner nations and non-governmental organizations worked on a ship to provide humanitarian assistance around the Caribbean, Central and South America. I found it most interesting that most of the countries I visited teenagers would be majoring in their job as 12 years of age. Well just wanted to comment.
The veil is a symbol of dicatorship in a way throughout the goverment. I find it really interesting how she talks about the veil but at the same time shows the viewer a child perspective throughout the book as far as the pictures go. Its such a big deal for a child to handle. The veil is there to cover up the woman hair and make sure she is not exposed. This makes me think about the 60's I think or I think it was the 50's when women in the U.S. was not alound to wear mini skirts because it was against the law or that wasn't hot back in the time period it wasn't lady like. So I would say the situations are very much similar. I can so see where Marjane is coming from.
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