Hi, need to submit a 250 words essay on the topic Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 2.
She sees God as an ally and supporter who wills her to become a prophet. However, it evolved because as she grows up, she becomes exposed to the cruelties of her surroundings. She begins to detach from her belief and that God slowly is unable to really give her comfort. My relationship with God is something of the opposite. As a child, I see God as a “Controller” of everything, yet as time passes by, I see God as a “Merciful Keeper and Forgiver of Dark Secrets,” which is a more comforting view when compared to how Satrapi views God when she is older. She presents Islamic fundamentalists as people who are just as bad as the Shah. For her, these people use brutality and force to control people for their own interests and benefits. Yet, as in page 24 of the second book, Satrapi says: “In every religion, you find the same extremists” (p.24). The nuns in Vienna are no different from other religious extremists, they have the great tendency to judge and unleash injustice in the name of religion. On an ever deeper perspective, even the Christmas mass in Tyrol can be an example of extremism.
