Adventures at Post Oak High

Our interview went...okay. It lasted thirty-seven minutes on the dot (which was twenty-three minutes shorter than the recommended time) and we messed up a couple of times (most crucially at the beginning, when we forgot to ask Mr. Goerlitz his background information). We also underestimated the amount of questions that we needed, which led to a couple of awkward pauses at certain points throughout the interview ("uhhh...do we have any more questions? Uh..."). In short, when (or if) next interview rolls around, there should be at least twenty questions that we have ready, and we should never forget to ask the interviewee's background. That way, we will get good starting information, and have a sufficient amount of things to talk about to fill at least an hour.

Towards the end of Persepolis, Marjane is making increased efforts to look better to her new husband, Reza. While wearing makeup for this very purpose at a local bazaar, she notices that the Guardians of the Revolution have gathered for a raid. In an attempt to distract them, she claims that a man on a set of steps was harassing her. (The majority of this occurs on pages 283 and 284). On the first panel of page 283, she explains her whole reasoning for doing this, and I believe that it was a very selfish act, as one individual wearing makeup in public would make so little of a change and a statement to the Islamic government that the avoidance of possibly having a man tortured or killed was not only an easy choice, but a very necessary one. Thus, Marjane's scolding by her grandmother was the least the woman could have done to set the immature wife straight.