Week Three

The first half of the novel portrays the recounting of the author's loss of naivety and faith. As a child, Marjane sees herself as a prophet in the line of Zarathustra, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. Her imaginary friend is her vision of God as an old man with a long flowing beard. In these scenes from childhood, God encourages Marjane to become a prophet and to stand up for love and justice.
As Marjane begins to see the political and social realities of her world, the reader sees her slowly detaching from her faith. As she hears stories of political imprisonment and torture, she finds that God no longer gives her comfort. She basically begins to see life in a whole different perspective to the extent where the only thing she puts her faith into are the things that she physically hears and witnesses. The imprisonment and execution of her Uncle Anoosh causes a break in her faith and she describes herself as lost and alone in the universe. In the part of the novel that we see Anoosh come into role the reader can see it titled the "Sheep." This symbolizes the people as sheep or followers. Furthermore as the novels progresses you can now see a pattern how Marijane's believes and values are changing. Also i believe from the begining of the book till this point we can se how the envrionment that the author is surrounded by effects personality change through out the story. Lastly the death of her uncle Anoosh is what will effect Marijane the most and alter outcomes in the novel.

The Letter

Social classes are economic and cultural aspects of groups in the society,that usually determine an individuals status in society in terms of power. In Persepolis this term signifies key components of Marijane Satrapi daily life to extent where it creates diversity in everyday existence. One of Satrapi’s strengths is how she shows us the prevalence of social censorship to an extent in which she portrays how everyone is out to protect themselves. In pages 34 through 37 we witness the love scene between Mehri and Marijane's neighbor. Here we see the impact of social classes breaking apart the relationship between two individuals because of different social seeding. Just because Mehri was really a maid and not Marijane's sister the love of her life decided to turn his back on her. Yet what stood out most about the entire scene was on pg. 37 where you can see Marijane thoughts on the situation as she states "we were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed." This quotation as a reader grabbed my attention to give a understanding of the the main characters aspects and values of life as she sees it at such a young age. Furthermore I can relate to this scene in terms of understanding how social terms such as lower, middle, and upper class can make someone feel unwanted. When I recently visited my country Fiji I came to realize how life was much more difficult there compared to the U.S. Everything was based upon social structure, who you were and what you had. Yet this scenario just does not exist there but all around the world. Power is what makes people who they are and without it you are seen as nobody in the eye of the world. I think the authors main purpose of having this scene in her book was to signify how life was during that particular time period and also to show how inequality will always exist. This scene just makes the rest of the novel more interesting to read because as you read along you see how the violence continues and the people with the most power remain to stay on top. Furthermore it gives a sense of the main characters personality because at one point in the book Marijane expresses how she is ashamed of her father's Cadillac, which resembles the wealth in her family along with many other things.

My Mother Never

My mother has never told me no for something. I am the youngest out of four children and one thing that I noticed about my beautiful mother is that she always took care of her four sons equally especially when it came to me. Compared to my three oldest brothers I would say I am probably the most spoiled of them all. Whether it was toys, shoes, clothes or video games my mother never said no to me. She always made sure to provide me with every thing I ever asked for. When it comes time to make that special somebody the one she has to be loving and as caring or even more then my mother. I still remember those days my mom would stay awake waitng for me to come back from basketball practice and make what ever I asked her to make. "Behind every mans success there's a woman behind it," and till this point that would be mother because from my baby steps to the huge strides that I made in life till this point, theres only woman who I could think of that was always there. Also mother's are probably the only woman guranteed not to hurt you or ever bring you down. My mother has never said no to me till this day for anything that I desired or wish to have done but thats not what make me love her the most. When I am older I will always like to keep my mother with me and take her of her the way she has all these years. In addtion I will also like to make sure that I fulfill my part as a son and give her everything in life just the way she did for me.

I AM

"Hello I am Vitesh Chand. I was born on the Islands of Fiji and moved to the U.S when I was about two years old. I have lived in San Jose my entire life and it is getting very boring out here. I had the oppurtunity to move away for the first of year college which I spent at San Francisco State Univeristy. Living in different city was an awesome expierence because "the city" was difinately a whole different environment then San Jose. I plan to finish my general education at San Jose city college then transfer out to a four year institution. I am currently employed at the San Jose airport working for Enterprise Car Rental.My first sport was soccer which is the main sport played in Fiji. I like to workout and love to play basketball. I played my entire four years at high school and would consider playing for college if I didnt have to work.  My major is Biology beacuse I plan to pursue a career in the medical field because math and science are difinately my favorite subjects." Also because it is my father's highly desired wish for me to pursue a career in the medical field.