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"What, you mean you were poor too? Oh yes, so  poor that we only had bread to eat. I was so ashamed that I pretended to cook so the neighbors wouldn't notice anything." (Satrapi 26)"
When it says "I was so ashamed," it shows the central idea because Marji's grandma was very poor, and she was so worried about what others think about her that she boiled water. She was very ashamed of herself because she couldn't afford food.

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I am very lucky to live the life that I live. I have a nice house and live in a good area. Many people assume people like me (upper and middle class) have a perfect life. That is far from true. I experience many problems and terrible situations. Just because someone may have a good amount of money, doesn't mean that their life is flawless.

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I read an article all about people in poverty and why their most dominant feature is shame. Struggling people in poverty often don't go to food shelters or seek help. The main reason for this is because they are too ashamed to walk to the food shelter or that they can't provide for their children. This article directly relates to the central idea of persepolis because it explains that there are many people in the world today that feel ashamed about their social class (being in poverty)

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Persepolis is a graphic novel. It often switches perspectives from Marji to other important people in her life. Also, it switches to the past a lot in stories that are told to Marji.

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The organization of this book affects the author's message because it helps enhance her story. Instead of just telling her story in the order of the events that they happened, she mixed up stories that she's heard from the past and her own personal experiences and memories. Not only the order of events played a role in the organization, but also the graphics. In many cases, it allowed the author to talk/explain through the graphics. The message of the book was able to be shown through the organization because if it was only told from Marji's perspectives then we wouldn't be able to understand the social classes very well. When you are in the perspective of someone that is experiencing poverty,you can understand at a deeper level what is really happening and what it feels like to be that person. Lastly through the pictures in some cases, you are able to learn and understand more hidden things about the social classes.

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"It disgusts me that people are condemned to a bleak future by their social class." (Satrapi 23)
Marji's grandpa feels disgusted and ashamed because of what social classes do to people. When it says "People are condemned to a bleak future by their social classes," it is meaning that people's social classes affect their opportunities and things like their education.

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"Maybe we should leave too. So that I can become a taxi driver and you a cleaning lady?" (Satrapi 64)."
Marji's father is making a stereotype that most people that live in America are taxi drivers or cleaning ladies when he says, "So that I can become a taxi driver and you a cleaning lady?"

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"I know that Mehri pretends to be my daughter, in reality she is my maid. Really? Do you still want to continue seeing her? Ehh..." (Satrapi 36-37)."
When it says "I know that Mehri pretends to be my daughter, in reality she is my maid," it shows how ashamed Mehri was to be a maid (in the lower class). She felt so ashamed that she lied to her boyfriend. She later learns that her boyfriend would never have dated her if he knew her real social class when he says, "Do you still want to continue seeing her? Ehh..."

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"I finally understood why I felt ashamed to sit in my father's cadillac. The reason for my shame and for the revolution is the same: the difference between social classes. (Satrapi 33)."
When she says "I felt ashamed to sit in my father's cadillac," Marji feels a sense of shame to be in a higher social class because she knows how many people have it worse than her. She was able to finally understand what social classes do to people. It puts people into stereotypes/labels which is not fair to do.

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In this graphic, you are able to see the shame/sadness in her face. She feels this way because of her social class. She has to pretend to cook in order to feel normal/fit in/not get judged. The way that the graphic/perspective shows her emotion deepens the central idea of social classes because it allows you to be more empathetic and really feel what she was feeling. (Satrapi 26)

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In this graphic, you can see the true pain and sadness that Mehri was going through at this time. Her boyfriend broke up with her when he found out she was a maid. Through this photo, you feel a lot more empathetic towards Mehri, whereas you would feel as much if you just read that she was sad. (Satrapi 37)

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In this photo, the police are being shown to be more important and higher up in society because of how big they look. The townspeople were shown very small, making them seem less important and lower in society. This picture shows the social classes by the police being drawn much bigger and the people very tiny. (Satrapi 14)

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Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Pantheon, 2000.

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Seabrook, Jeremy. “Why Shame Is the Most Dominant Feature of Modern Poverty | Jeremy Seabrook.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 30 Sept. 2014, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/shame-modern-poverty-poor-people-tory-welfare-cuts.