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Reflective Essay on Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis

Revolutions often cause widespread dehumanization. Because of the thousands of lives that get destroyed during the course of revolutions, we tend to view these deaths more as statistics than as real, ordinary lives lost. The papers publish these numbers and we tend to get used to reading about twenty more, a hundred more lives lost, without really wondering about it at all. Marjane Satrapi tries to undo this effect in several ways in her graphic novel, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.

The first device she uses to do this is to use the child’s perspective. The story of the revolution re-told through the eyes of an Iranian ten-year old girl makes it very poignant. She provides a fresh perspective on what the ideals of the revolution meant to those who initially opposed the Shah’s regime. The little girl is unusually conscious and well-read for her age: “But my favorite was comic book entitled “Dialectic Materialism”.” (Satrapi 12). Class differences bother her and she repeatedly protests against it, as in the case of the brief love affair between Mehri and the neighbor’s son (Satrapi 37).

Satrapi also uses a sparse, bare style of drawing to add to this poignant tone. This is especially evident in some of the illustrations like that of the Rex Cinema being burnt down where the flames resemble the skeletons of the people who must have died inside (Satrapi 15) and in her depiction of the massacre that begins the section entitled “The Party” (Satrapi 40). The faces of the dead revolutionaries all resemble each other, emphasizing the great number of people who died for this cause.