The Dowry

 The Dowry is the last chapter of the book. This chapter is about Marji  leaving school because of her behavior in class with her teachers. She gets warnings until her parents get tired and finally decide to send  her to Austria to finish her studies. Marji thought and then figured out that she was traveling alone, without a companion (her parents) to be with her. She knew that she would only see them in their visits, and not actually live with them. When she realized that, she got scared and didnt know how to feel, because this was a complete new experience. Marji turned around one last time to see her parents and then left to Austria. She knew that there was something left to do, but I guess that that will happen in the next book. This reminded me of the first time I traveled alone in a plane. I thought that I would never see my parents again, and that I would have no one to rely on. I was so frightened that I didn't know what to do. Even if I knew that my sister was going to wait me on the other side of the world,  I was scared. One thing different was that I knew that I was going to see my parents again, and she knew she didn't, but I know how she might felt in that moment. 

The Sheep

I think that this is the roughest chapter that this book has. It is about the time when Marji's friends and family leave her there alone, mentally, physically, or in most cases both. Most of them are being killed or are leaving forever. A really important boy in her life was leaving to the United States, which made her really sad. In this chapter they introduce Anoosh, who is Marji's uncle. He is a calm person who cares a lot about her. He has all the right things to say all the time. He is the one that Marji most cares about, which makes him a very important character in the book. This chapter reminds me of the Holocaust's book "Number the Stars". It is about a Jewish girl who had no clue about what was going on in the time of the holocaust. Her friends parents are taken to the concentration camps and they are left with her. Then they take them to the concentration camps all together. I find this similar mainly because in the chapter you can see the religion and racism, just like in the holocaust.

Persepolis

In this chapter Marji asks her grandmother about her grandfather. Her grandma, instead of answering Marji's questions, she started to tell her about the Shah. Marji doesn't care about the topic that grandma is talking about, so she gets mad. She really wants to know about her grandpa, not the Shah. They talked for a long while and they left to the kitchen to wait for Marji's dad. Hours pass and he doesn't appear. Everyone starts to get very worried until her dad comes back home. They where so relieved that he was home that they felt the excitement in the air. As soon as he gets there, he starts telling a tale about some revolutionists who thought that this dead old man was a man killed because of racism but his wife told them that he had just died as an old man. This revolutionists where very racist people, so they had said that the Shah was the "murderer", so she joined the protesting. The girl's family found it like a big joke, unlike her but she still laughed. This reminds me of my little cousins. We where once at a family reunion and we sit by groups. I sat with my older cousins and the little ones came along. He was telling this funny story which made me and my older cousins laugh. My little cousins made awkward faces and then just laughed along. When I read this chapter I thought a lot of that time with my little cousins. They act a lot like Marji. 

The Veil

This chapter was the introduction of the book. It was in the time when the religions stood out and made a bigger part of life than what they do now. In Marji's time, the people in her religion had to stand out and follow their beliefs, even if she didn't wanted to. Marji is a girl with a very different point of view that the people in that period of time. She wanted to be the 1st female profit, which made it harder for her because of the fact that she was a girl. In this chapter you could see that the men where the authority or the source of power of the time. This reminded me of the book "the Iliad" because here the main characters are men. The fighters and the strong ones where men. I find this very stereotypical, just like in is book. Men aren't always the source of authority, and I think that that is a factor that Marji is trying to point out.