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I think the book Persepolis is for young people who are not familiar with the history of the Middle East country--Iran. This book is written in a comic style by Iranian writer Marjane Satrapi. Iranian historical problem is complicated because of the political factor, fossil resources and islanmic religion. After I read this book, I consider the purpose of this book is to tell people something about religious revolution, Iran and Iraq war and people's life in Iran. 

Persepolis is a comic book. This is a reason of why I think it's for young people. For me, I'm a student, I don't think so many young people would like to take interest in the book which is concerned to the policy and use a lot of difficult and long words. It's hard for readers to understand and attract them a lot, especially for young people. But Persepolis has a lot of vivid pictures and words that describe the story in a clear way but interesting. 

The book is about the memory of Marjane's childhood. The main character is little girl Marjane. The book is written in a little girl's opinion. It tells many real stories and describes how was people' hard life in Iran. Such like, she tells reader the history of king by his own grandfather's story, show the conflict between government by his uncle Annosh's experience, black Friday, social class in her home. These are all her experience, they are real and convincing. She combine the polictical and religious problem with people's life to show what was happened in Iran during that special period.

I think this is her purpose and she achieved. For me, this is the first time I know something about Iran and impressed me a lot.