Sunday, April 25, 2010
Relationship's in Persepolis
After reading the first couple of chapters of Persepolis, I was a little thrown off by the relationship between the author and her uncle. I felt as though she was a lot closer to her uncle than her father. It seemed that she thought it was “cool” that her uncle spent some years in prison and that she could use that to her advantage and brag to her friends at school. She and her friends considered their family members to be heroes if they spent time in prison. I also think that it didn’t help that her father lied to her about her uncle leaving. She felt a little betrayed about her father lying to her because she was smart enough to figure out that he was taken away to prison again. It probably would have been better if he just straight up told her the truth.
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I did find it a little strange that after never really knowing her uncle they formed such a close connection, shown by the fact that her uncle asked her to come visit him in prison instead of anyone else. I feel that for the uncle the author is the daughter he never had. Honestly I got a little emotional when I learned he had died because he was her hero and she really idolized him. It will be interesting to see if his predicament will have any repercussions for their family as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI found the relationship a little odd too, at first. But since she's very young, it makes sense for her to attach herself to someone she looks up to and for some reason she looks up to him because he was in prison.
ReplyDeleteWell, the war was pretty much the only thing that anyone ever talked about in the story because it was something that was affected everyone in Iran. When Marjane found someone who was directly involved, it kind of makes sense that she is interested. Also I think a big part of it was honor. She was jealous that she had friends at school that were war heroes, and she wanted to have that too.
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