Persepolis

Some of the things I like about the graphic novel are, first, how realistic that the book is. I liked how she was able to experience being poor after living a rich life and being able to know why some people are poor while others are rich or just normal because it gives her the second opinion from the point of a poor person. Above all I liked how I was able to relate to her while I read because of the experiences she has had and the thoughts she has led me to think of new goals that I would like to accomplish based off of the thing that happened to her after the experiences. I was able to relate when she got herself into a position where she was only able to rely on one person and was really close to that person.

Some of the things I didn’t like are how she editorates some of the things that happened to her or people she knew. I didn’t like how she focused on some of the tortures that people who were in prison had to go through, although that is what they wnet through a lot of the time. Some things that the human kind does to eachother isn’t something that a lot of people like to focus on.

What I think that purpose of Persepolis is to show what it is like in countries that you are or might be at war with. I think that it is also to show what the effects of war are on families that are richer than the normal because it is those families that have to fund the wars that go on during their rich stage. We get to see what it is to go from being rich in a country that is at war to a country that isn’t at war, still being rich, to being in a country that isn’t at war but being poor instead of rich. I think that seeing the effects of that transformation is what we are supposed to get out of the book.

Anthony