Dear Marjane Satrapi,
My name is Chelsea Uzueta and I am currently attending East Los Angeles College. I am taking an English class where we fortunately got to read your book Persepolis as a required text. I never heard of a graphic novel. As a matter of fact when our teacher showed us this book I thought it was going to be totally boring and a really easy book to read. But as I got in to the story I realized there is so much more then what the words are saying. The graphics make it come to live so much, im guessing that’s what you get from a graphic novel. =) I have to say you really opened my eyes about many issues I thought I already knew so much about. In actuality I didn’t really know anything. I guess when you hear about wars like this you don’t think so much about the people but mostly about the ones that are doing the fighting.
I loved so much about this book. One of my favorite things is how you made your audience feel like they were right there with you. I felt as if I was your friend walking with you every step of the way. I felt your ambition to fight for what u believe in, I felt the love and respect for your mother, and I felt the sadness of your Uncle Anoosh’s death. Maybe I felt like this because I see a lot of my self in you. I am a very politically active person and love to stand for what I believe in. I remember this one time I wanted to go to a demonstration and my mother wouldn’t let me. Well I was reading the chapter The Letter I can totally hear my mom telling me I couldn’t go to the demonstration just like your mom told you. I listened to my mom and didn’t go but a big part of me was wishing that I hadn’t listened to her just like you didn’t listen to yours. I know it’s not a good thing to not listen to your parents but you stood for what I believed in and went. It’s a scary thing isn’t it, those demonstrations? They can get really crazy. How did you feel when you were there? Didn’t it feel like such an empowering moment? Like you are changing something? I know when I go that’s how I feel. I just live for that feeling of making the world a better place and having a sense of equality for all.
You seem to take after your mom a lot or maybe that’s just what I think? I loved how your mom stood up for her self and didn’t let anyone shut her up. My mom is just the same. You don’t want to get her started. She is one of the strongest people I know. I can not ever see my self leaving somewhere to live with out her. You were really strong when you left to live with her friend. I know that must have been super hard for both you and your mom. To me you just seem like a very strong woman; a good role model for so many people. You dealt with so much death in your life but you seemed to always keep your self together. When your Uncle Anoosh passed I know it must have really done some damage to your heart, but again you held it together! Isn’t it hard being so strong all the time? I recently had to deal with a sudden death in the family. It’s so weird how one moment they are right there with you and in a blink of an eye taken away from you. I do see a lot of me in you but when it comes to things like this I guess I can’t find that strength that you have. I so badly want to just think about it as he is in a better place but I don’t see any place better then being with your family. I guess he is with my family in heaven. Did you ever thing about it in such a way? I’m sorry for bringing him up I know it must be a hard subject. I just feel at this moment what you might have felt then.
I look up to you for so many different reasons. You had anything but a normal life but you turned it all around and made something great out of it. You managed to make your life a tell-all to people like me that don’t really know anything at all about Iran. You opened our eyes and made us see the truth behind it all. I want to take the time now to thank you for that. If it wasn’t for this English class and a great writer like your self I would have never knew any of these things. Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for a great novel.
Yours Respectfully,
Chelsea Uzueta
P.S
I think you would have made an awesome prophet! =)
My name is Chelsea Uzueta and I am currently attending East Los Angeles College. I am taking an English class where we fortunately got to read your book Persepolis as a required text. I never heard of a graphic novel. As a matter of fact when our teacher showed us this book I thought it was going to be totally boring and a really easy book to read. But as I got in to the story I realized there is so much more then what the words are saying. The graphics make it come to live so much, im guessing that’s what you get from a graphic novel. =) I have to say you really opened my eyes about many issues I thought I already knew so much about. In actuality I didn’t really know anything. I guess when you hear about wars like this you don’t think so much about the people but mostly about the ones that are doing the fighting.
I loved so much about this book. One of my favorite things is how you made your audience feel like they were right there with you. I felt as if I was your friend walking with you every step of the way. I felt your ambition to fight for what u believe in, I felt the love and respect for your mother, and I felt the sadness of your Uncle Anoosh’s death. Maybe I felt like this because I see a lot of my self in you. I am a very politically active person and love to stand for what I believe in. I remember this one time I wanted to go to a demonstration and my mother wouldn’t let me. Well I was reading the chapter The Letter I can totally hear my mom telling me I couldn’t go to the demonstration just like your mom told you. I listened to my mom and didn’t go but a big part of me was wishing that I hadn’t listened to her just like you didn’t listen to yours. I know it’s not a good thing to not listen to your parents but you stood for what I believed in and went. It’s a scary thing isn’t it, those demonstrations? They can get really crazy. How did you feel when you were there? Didn’t it feel like such an empowering moment? Like you are changing something? I know when I go that’s how I feel. I just live for that feeling of making the world a better place and having a sense of equality for all.
You seem to take after your mom a lot or maybe that’s just what I think? I loved how your mom stood up for her self and didn’t let anyone shut her up. My mom is just the same. You don’t want to get her started. She is one of the strongest people I know. I can not ever see my self leaving somewhere to live with out her. You were really strong when you left to live with her friend. I know that must have been super hard for both you and your mom. To me you just seem like a very strong woman; a good role model for so many people. You dealt with so much death in your life but you seemed to always keep your self together. When your Uncle Anoosh passed I know it must have really done some damage to your heart, but again you held it together! Isn’t it hard being so strong all the time? I recently had to deal with a sudden death in the family. It’s so weird how one moment they are right there with you and in a blink of an eye taken away from you. I do see a lot of me in you but when it comes to things like this I guess I can’t find that strength that you have. I so badly want to just think about it as he is in a better place but I don’t see any place better then being with your family. I guess he is with my family in heaven. Did you ever thing about it in such a way? I’m sorry for bringing him up I know it must be a hard subject. I just feel at this moment what you might have felt then.
I look up to you for so many different reasons. You had anything but a normal life but you turned it all around and made something great out of it. You managed to make your life a tell-all to people like me that don’t really know anything at all about Iran. You opened our eyes and made us see the truth behind it all. I want to take the time now to thank you for that. If it wasn’t for this English class and a great writer like your self I would have never knew any of these things. Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for a great novel.
Yours Respectfully,
Chelsea Uzueta
P.S
I think you would have made an awesome prophet! =)
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