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Age can shield or alleviate the truth, and adults are part of the shielding but also the understanding.

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"You can participate later on."
"Sure,sure! When it's all over." (Satrapi, 17)

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"Darling we are tired."
"Now is not the right time."
"It is never the right time!"
(Satrapi, 18)

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"You must understand that their love was impossible."
"Why is that?"
"Because in this country you must stay within your own social class."
(Satrapi, 37)

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"I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could."
(Satrapi, 32)

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"But Mom, Ramin's father killed."
"I know. His father did it. But it's not Ramin's fault."
(Satrapi, 46)

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The parents tried to make it seem like it wasn't a big deal and that she could just participate later on. They tried to shield how bad things were, and tried to make her understand that she's too young.

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The parents were tired from going to all the protests and they reached a breaking point and told their daughter they were too tired to play a game. This shows that they had shielded her from how tired and hard on them the protests really were. Her reaction of anger and annoyance at them not wanting to play Monopoly shows that they alleviated her from the truth.

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Satrapi's maid was of a lower social class then the next door neighbor who she fell in love with. In their country people could only be with others of their social class. So when the boy found out that she was the maid he ended things. Marji didn't understand the social class system or why it was in place because her parents had shielded the horrors of her country from her. But the dad decided to help her understand why those 'rules' are in place.

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Marji didn't understand a joke at a family discussion. Later on she laughed but didn't really know what was funny. It shows how she wasn't really educated and informed of the truth, but her grandma helps her understand these things.

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Marji and her friends tried to hurt a little boy in their class because his father was a killer. Her and her friends didn't understand that Ramin shouldn't be blamed for his fathers faults. They were never informed. Marji's Mom helped her understand.

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How is the text organized? (format/structure)

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It's a graphic novel meaning that a big part of the telling of the story is through pictures. Some of the scenes have pictures only.
This story is not in order. There is also many flashbacks, and different perspectives. She makes some pictures bigger than others and I think that that's because she wants to make a bigger deal of certain parts over others. She also uses black and white instead of color which I think makes the story a little more serious. It also takes away a little bit of the childishness of the drawings.

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Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: the Story of an Iranian Childhood. Jonathan Cape, 2003.

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How does the organization impact the author's message?

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Since the author uses a lot of pictures we see exactly how she remembers these past events. It also gives us history that explains a little bit of her past before she was born. The cool thing about this story is that she uses flashbacks every once in a while and gives us bits and pieces at a time rather than giving us all the history at once. The way the pictures were drawn makes a brutal story of war more childish, which adds to the fact that she experienced this as a child and makes us have more empathy for her.The whole story makes people empathetic because it's from a child's point of view.