Marjane Satrapi, the author of the book "Persepolis" who is an Iranian-born French novelist as well as illustrator, wrote her book about her childhood story to people who are not aware of real history of Iran and Islamic Revolution. Still there are many people who didn't learn about a world history especially about Iran, and many people don't have interest in the history of Iran. Because of those reasons, she used a way that readers could easily understand it; such as using of picture and easy vocabulary. She wanted to make readers not get bored while they read her book. Honestly, I didn't have interest and care about the country called "Iran" before I read this book. I thought Iran was peaceful place because my home country South Korea and Iran are "Diplomatic Relations" which is connected with peace making, trade, culture and economic. Anyway, let's think about this. Why did Satrapi write and publish this book in France? This is important problem. If she published this book in Iran and many people got to know about the terrifying reality of Iran, of course she would be seriously in danger. The Iranian government never let her be alive. Probably she would be killed.
Satrapi tried to convey how chaotic and painful was the reality and the hardship she undergone. She wanted to denounce all the horrible things committed by the brutal government; such as recruiting young boys to the army and making into a slaughter, serious unfairness between men and women, demonstrations and wars that led many people to die. By setting her as the main character, the readers could feel more realistic and empathize with her because they would think this book as a autobiography. Also because of her vivid descriptions and pictures of background, the readers could easily approach to the book, and Satrapi could show what she wanted to convey more effectively. I think the message she wanted to tell was "Be aware of the real situations at that time, and don't forget the hardships that was undergone by the martyrs made Iran of now." Her book plays the role of history textbook that tells the facts that should be indelible to descendants.
I think she definitely achieved her purpose. I am the one of the audiences she aimed, and at least my classmates and I became to know about the reality of that time. She wanted more and more people to know about her message and spread out. In that perspective, this book was filmed as a movie and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academic Award 2007 too. That shows her book was impressive and implies the number of people who have read or watched "Persepolis" would be large. Also, thanks to this book, I could fully understand about the real history of Iran and wrote a book review to recommend this book to others. Thus I hope this book spread out more widely and people start to recognize about the history of Iran.
I think she definitely achieved her purpose. I am the one of the audiences she aimed, and at least my classmates and I became to know about the reality of that time. She wanted more and more people to know about her message and spread out. In that perspective, this book was filmed as a movie and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academic Award 2007 too. That shows her book was impressive and implies the number of people who have read or watched "Persepolis" would be large. Also, thanks to this book, I could fully understand about the real history of Iran and wrote a book review to recommend this book to others. Thus I hope this book spread out more widely and people start to recognize about the history of Iran.
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