The way to show the true history

According to the book Persepolis, the writer, Marjane Satrapi worked really hard to show the audience the true history of Iran. Iran at that time, and even now, was a closed country, Satrapi, as a little girl that time had experienced this and she wanted to show people the truth.

In the book, she talked about the Iran-Iraq war, the demonstrations, the fell of the Shan, and many small events that happened to show the daily life of Iranian that time. She loved that country, but Iran wasn’t as great as what she thought before. She wanted to change but it’s too difficult for her to achieve. So, she wrote this book, wanted more people to notice the truth and whished people who are powerful enough can help Iran to change.

From the scenes in the book, Marjane’s mother once went out with out veil, and then she was threatened by two men who wanted to throw her into trash. This showed women in Iran were not free and the country was violent. Once the new Islamic government had replaced the old empire, most people from the prison had been released. However, they were still killed by the government by many strange reasons, such as being spy or did something that’s bad to the country. Actually, the truth was just they were communist and it was possible for some of them to replace the political system again. This showed that there’s no big difference between the old and new government and nothing changed, so the country was still not good for their people. Satrapi did reflect things happened in Iran in a way that’s not that heartbreak.

Even though Satrapi could not go back to Iran again, she did the right thing to tell the truth. It made people know many parts of the story. As a result, I think she achieve her purpose. Satrapi made people to understand the history by reading an interesting story. It’s attracted enough for audience who read this book couldn’t put it down. So, she successfully made more people care about Iran and Iranian’s daily life.

For me, after reading the book, and during reading the book, I started to find information about Iran. I didn’t like history for many years but I just want to understand Marjane’s feeling. Later then, I search information from the Internet, I asked my friends, and I asked my dad to know the history of Iran. Even for me, the person that didn’t like history a lot could go to find the truth of history, for others, it would work better.

Admittedly, Satrapi use the book in the perspective of a little girl, Marjane, in the form of comic to show the events happened in Iran during all of the revolution. She did what she wanted to do by writing Persepolis. She was so brave and she truly became the honest and thoughtful woman as her parents, her uncle Anoosh and herself wished so. And in my perspective, I also wish Iran would be a better country as Satrapi wish so.