Reading Blog: Persepolis-The Passport

When I read the title of this chapter, I immediately imagined the passport that was going to be explained was for the girl to leave the country. As I actually started reading, I was shocked by her going from a child to an adult. Later in, I encountered the remarkable man that I considered Taher to be, after surviving two heart attacks and living on happily. When I was happy with this character, I stumbled with the tragedy of a grenade landing close to his apartment, which caused yet another heart attack. For a moment there, I thought the author was going to make his stay at the hospital a tragic bump in the road but nothing big. Then I was shocked to see the passport was actually to get him to England for a strongly equipped surgery, which he needed. At that moment, I suspected he wasn't going to make it, specially since the whole chapter was dedicated to the attempt to save him. Sadly, I was right and Taher passed away.