I thought Persopolis was a very compelling narrative with a child-like playfulness in its drawing and tone compared to its at time serious topics. I also found it interesting upon how she learned philosophy from comics and now it being created in the same media as both entertainment ad education. She rather well off I believe in her ability to both have and consume knowledge. It was a very modern take. Through personal experience you could see the unrest of power and people's opinions or even how her school was taught. I found it a bit ironic on how suprised her parents were at her. behavior at time considering they were protestors with strong opinions themselves. Granted, she did not see understand everything thorny in the political climate, but she sure did try. There was a certain naivety in what was said, and overall I noticed a theme of children will repeat what they hear. Both within the narrator herself and the children she interacted with. It really does say something to lead by example to make your kid feel included.
Uncle Annosh was a hard story to read because I can not imagine that experience as a child. She definitely knew death. There was the casual talk of torture and the media lying about what happened and that was the every day. As she got older the fact that she could be pulled from the street for wearing lipstick and never heard from again is terrifying. It was also weird how it seemed society moved both backwards and forwards at times between cars, music tastes, and thought on alcohol. It had to be strangely disassociate. When she studies abroad it was good to note that she mentioned there were extremists in every religion which I think is true and really hard for some people to remember. I would say her upbringing was much more relaxed, but there were certain ideals that were still instilled such as social class (as seen when the maid was trying to romance the stranger across the street). Overall I really enjoyed the book in both because it really did feel like the right amount of self reflection and a coming of age story. There were amusing moments like how she wanted to play monopoly as a child or the story of the crowd taking a widows husband and claiming he was killed by the army instead of cancer. But also sad moments in seeing the bracelet of her friend attached to something... but it leaves me with the question would I have picked up more symbolisms or cultural reference if I knew more about the Middle East and Arabic Religion?
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