Sophia’s Reviews > The Complete Persepolis > Status Update

Poor baby was homeless for three months, now she’s going home to her mother. Just so sad reading this.

“And it’s the banal story of love that almost carried me away.” Chin up. Life can get crazy. But you can always pick yourself up and move on and I’m sure she will be 🫶🏼

Oh, the first love heartbreak. It gets easier over time.

Ah, Marjane, come on don’t lie about the guy just because he threatens your ability to fit in with others. Her grandmother was right, ignore jerks/anyone mean to you cos you will always come across people like that, stay true to yourself, don’t make yourself bitter over revenge. If only everyone would just have that mentality.

I’m really enjoying Marjane adjusting to life in Austria (she’s left Iran). Poor Marjane, she’s hearing about how everyone is going to all these holidays with their families but she can’t go home, but Lucia takes her to see her family and gives her a family - all this time after complaining about her hair dryer and she said she’s not going to complain about Lucia and her hair dryer again. So good so far.

She’s got really out there ideas about heroism, more knighthood than heroism especially even her peers found the idea of heroism too much. Heroism is someone taking care of you and defending you, but in such a backdrop how much is too much heroism? Her ideas are sounding like a contemporary Bollywood film.

Erm, this is very graphic and I’m traumatised.

Ah this is so bad. At 10 years old, Mehri, their maid, was given to their family because her family couldn’t support this many children. A maid, a caretaker, from the age of 10. She falls in love later but they cannot be together because of difference in social class and she has Marji write letters on her behalf because she can’t write. Makes me feel so bad, I used to have a very young handmaid back home as well.

The author draws God or depicts God, I don’t even know how to phrase it. This is not something we can do. She draws how she imagines God to look like I’m guessing and I feel really uncomfortable because wouldn’t this be shirk?

No, that’s not nice, the maid should sit and eat dinner with them.