At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet (page 6, Persepolis). Reading this and then digesting the first six pages that a little girl wanted to be a prophet made me think of my life as a child. My first impression of Marji the little girl in the book was that she was very ambitious. Marji actually has a close relationship with God in the book to the point where she can talk to him as if he was as human as she was. Also her arrogance and self thought worth was mind tampering. She had actually told her teacher in one instance she would become a prophet one day. Even had her peers acting out what she thought would be future scenes. Her parents reminded me of my grandparents back in the 60’s. Her parents were upset with the cultural change and mistreatment of their own kind, so they joined the fight. Marching and protesting was all my grandparents did as to what Marji’s parents did. Her parents called it demonstrating while my grandparents called going to fight.
The choosing of this book for me had to deal with my love for graphic novels. I respect the art in which a person feels that words can’t describe it good enough. This book to me is very interesting because although we’re from two different places our lives were affected the same due to government trying to control us all the time. This book is definitely for me and any one who likes pictures and great stories.
I agree with you on many points in your post. It being a graphic novel had something to dow ith my choice to. The prophet scene also spoke to me as well.
ReplyDeletei feel as if the graphics were cool to even though i had delt with books different from this i found i pretty interesting to read this book
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