I'e started to think that the comic book or graphic novel (what ever Persepolis is considered), is the best way to see history. I listened to Marjane Satrapi in an interview and she happened to discuss some of the very issues that we discussed in class concerning art in her literature. Satrapi talked about how drawings are able to communicate so much more than words when it comes to the more distant reaches of life. There are some things you have to see to fully know. Art, no matter the form it comes in, bridges that existential, gap between what we know about something and what that something really is.
In Persepolis, the reader watchs, quite literally, as young Marjane begins to grow up. She learns about the injustices performed against her family by the Western-supported governments of Iran. Furthermore, we see that freedoms are curtailed, purges are carried out, and dreams are crushed.
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