The Fall

In Persepolis there are various types of archetypes that you can connect to the story. The one that best fits the moral of the story to me is “The Fall”. Like I have said before Marjane had a high profile type family. They had the Cadillac, maid, and so on. As you continue to read you start to see everything, and everyone change around her. In the beginning Marjane couldn’t understand why she had the things that others did not. As things escalate with the war and her being so independent the social class didn’t matter as much as it did. The things started to get worse in Iran. So her parents thought that for the sake of my daughter let’s send her away from the chaos. As nice as it sounds it wasn’t that easy for her. War for any young kid can affect the mind; so when it comes to having freedom from that everyday nightmare. The decisions you make may differ. Like on page 185 “As if my natural deformity wasn’t enough” she expressed this in a negative way so then started to change her appearances. There were times when you can tell by the pictures in the book that she seems depressed. On page 233 she states “My breakup with Markus represented more than a simple separation. I had just lost my one emotional support”. After all the wars going on and moving to house to different houses. She felt as though he was her only support; so depending on him made “The Fall” even worse. She started to go deeper down after that happen. On page 272 she even says “She is nothing. She manages to graze herself. So I waited until my wrist healed to swallow all my anti-depressants”. She was going as far as trying to take her own life. My opinion is we all have been at our lowest point at our life or at least seen someone like that. After a while of being down there will always be a time to get back up. Marjane is a very educated girl so I feel as though over time she will learn from “The Fall” and continue to grow from everything that’s happen to her. It is probably going to be a hard process, but she will get through it.