Reading Blog: Persepolis-The Veil

The comic book Persepolis starts with an odd but rather interesting introduction. The author started the first chapter by criticizing the Islamic culture from a child, the main charater´s, point of view. The introduction told the reader how the girl was born at the beginning of the Islamic revolution and how this affected her life as a little girl. She questioned that suddenly her school required the girls to wear veils. Then the school breaks apart to different boy and girl schools. This puts her in much doubt, as well as seeing the changes in society with the beginning of the revolution. In this chapter, the author also introduces the fact that this girl´s dream is to become the last prophet. With this, she starts living that part of her life and talking to god every night before going to sleep. I personally had never thought of these point of views when I see the news about a new reform in the Middle East for example. The children´s point of view is usually ignored and not taken into consideration for public awareness. So mostly, I was left with three questions from this chapter: 1. What is the girl´s name? 2. How does she make her point of view important to society and 3. How will she succeed as the prophet she wants to be.