Quote Response #6

When I read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis there w ere a few lines that really popped out to me. One in particular was "I didn't know what the justice was. Now that the revolution was finally over once and for all...The only place I felt safe was in the arms of my friend [God]." I think this quote is important because it shows how much everything effects children. Even though they don't understand entirely, children still have a sense of all of the events around them. I also find it significant that the "friend" Marji talks about is God, I this plays an important role in her experience and then later we find that she decides to not want him in her life. It's these experiences for children that cause them to have everlasting feelings toward certain people. I also think that her calling God a friend is important, maybe if her whole family had thought of him that way, they could have gotten through the revolution a little easier. I just find that many of the thoughts she had as a child were very far from immature, it's interesting to me how this can be so different in another country. Ours often isn't like that.