Persepolis is a comic book, which is written by Marjane Satarapi. It's also be adapted into the film. This is the first comic book I read actually. I recommend it. This is a story of childhood of a Iran girl. Marjane is a iran girl. She write her childhood memory in the book, about her parents, grandmother, uncle, school, the life during war and her parents decided to sent her abroad.
Although it's in comic style, but it's absolutely not for little kids. I think it show something serious. It concerned the topic of Iran war and policy, but this book makes readers understand easily. That's one reason of why I recommend it. As a foreign student, it's hard for me to read some boring things about the policy. Because it's not a interesting topic for most of people. But if the book is showed in the comic style. We can know what Marjane think about by the picture in the book. The pictures in the book are really nice. They usually show some details. We can guess what Marjane thinks about by analyzing her painting style.
And the second point is that, this is a mamory of a young girl. Some serious topic which concerned the policy of a country is usually affected by the government. Some books or movies can't show the true historical events because of the political factor. I never know the history of Iran. But from this book, I know some affection of religious rule to people and the peoples' life during Iran war.
Marjane lives in a rich family. I like her parents. Although in some degree, there is still social class in the family when they support the revolution. For example, their maid can't eat with them, the maid can't fall in love with the son of neighbors. But I like them because her parents didn't restrict her a lot on the policy and religion. Her parents bought her books about revolutionaries, Marx, tell her the truth of king, send her abroad to live in a more free place. They help her know more things about the country than others, help her to be a girl who is brave to say something different and have own thought.
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