Persepolis: "The Dowry"

I have to say, this was an awesome ending for this awesome book. In the first part of the book we can see “Islamic discipline" as shown when the teachers at Marji’s school forbid the use of bracelets. Also in frame 3 in page 143 the teacher threatens her. All of these aspects of discipline are very common in the Islamic culture because not only the man is the supreme authority but fir young women, older women are their authority when men aren’t around. But Marji has had a tough life in the last years so she wasn’t letting her authority treat her bad. This reminds me of one of my best friends that she had the same attitude that Marji had when she was passing through a moment of injustice. When she hit the principal and threw her to the floor I almost died of laughter imagining that happening here at CNG what that would have been like for the audience around them. 

The third page of this chapter (page 145) reminded me of my parents when they got a complain from one of my teachers a long time ago and they were not mad at me at all. In fact, they told to not worry about it, just like Marji’s parents on this page when they got the complaint from her religion teacher at her new school for the comment she shared in class. The comment was the following: "My uncle was imprisoned by the Shah’s regime, but it was the Islamic regime the ordered the execution. You say that we don’t have political prisoners anymore. But we’ve gone from 3000 prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under your regime. How dare you lie to us like that?” Personally I think she is completely right. But of course moms are the ones that a problem for everything. Like Marji’s mom in frames 3-9 in page 145. 

When her parents want to send her to Austria because they think she is safer there and that she can get a better education. I personally think she shouldn’t go because the future of her country of her country lies within girls like her. Girls that are not afraid if saying what they think, and that spend their time worrying about their country’s status and future. In the end, she does go (which disappoints me a little). But one thing that really made the end of this book excellent was the sentence that she says: “It would have been better to just go”. But her facial expression in the last illustration shows her real emotion that is wanting to stay.