Awareness | Posted by Becka W on 07/8/2009
A Persepolis Reality
The hot, sunny days of summer always remind me of what it was like to be a kid – scrapes on my knees, no school, that familiar sound of the ice cream truck, sand in between my toes, shorts, tank tops, flip-flops and lemonade stands.
It’s hard to imagine what life would be like if that fun and wonderment of being a kid mixed with something more dark and complex – like what Marjane “Marji” Satrapi has to deal with as a young girl in her auto-biographical graphic novel Persepolis.
Set in Iran in 1979, Persepolis explores what it’s like to grow up and be a child of the Iranian Revolution. Marji marches around her house pretending to be a revolutionary, loses her uncle to the secret police, and …
