Adventures at Post Oak High

Since in Persepolis Marjane is in Austria, she has to adapt to a new and unfamiliar culture. This includes her peers engaging in casual sex, smoking marijuana and cigarettes and shooting heroin, and generally disrespecting rules of religion and tradition that are so fundamental in Iran. She initially has a hard time adapting, because she learns that being able to simply speak the language is not enough to fully immerse herself. But even beyond this, she also is struggling with issues that teenagers have to deal with on a regular basis in almost all parts of the world, such as not feeling loved, connecting with her teachers, and listening to parents and figures of authority. All of these things make it the largest struggle in her life thus far, even more than having to deal with routine airstrikes and war erupting al around her. However, the experience will likely turn out to improve her life. The experience of clashing with another culture and immersing yourself within it, while scar...

In Persepolis , I believe that the author is actually discussing her own personal relationships with God in a very meaningful in honest way; she doesn't show that she has the perfect relationship with Him. In reality, she is frustrated by His inability to simply explain things; I think as a child, we all want the answers. Her not getting the answers, whether it's about new developing feelings for boys, for example, or the nature of religion and His role in society in an Islamic takeover is a really frustrating for her. So frustrating, that she yells and screams at him. To her, he is not an all-powerful, all-knowing benevolent being; he is simply another person that she doesn't get. And I really like this aspect to Marjane's character, because as a child, I think God is one of the most frightening things to us. And her describing their relationship this personally really gives more insight into her character.