{"id":287,"date":"2019-10-28T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=287"},"modified":"2019-10-28T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:27:33","slug":"the-price-of-freedom-end-of-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/28\/the-price-of-freedom-end-of-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Freedom (End of Persepolis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trigger warning: mentions of attempted suicide<\/p>\n

There were so many pieces to this final section of Persepolis that really jumped out at me. The first thing I found most jarring was how quickly we bounced back from the section about Marjane’s attempted suicide. On 272-273, she shows this remarkably sad tale of her attempt and then the consequences of it, and on 274-275, we see her teaching aerobics. It’s a very abrupt shift, and I know it’s meant to show that this moment very rapidly changed her life, but it was really something that stuck with me through the end of the story. It colored the way she both pushed herself with her small rebellions and how she accepted a bit of conformity. The way she conformed still served to further her ability to make her own decisions. It led her to have a bit more agency.<\/p>\n

We really see Marjane grow into the person I think we’ve all been rooting for her to find throughout the whole story. She talks about how she is neither western nor Iranian right before her attempt, but then we see her begin to believe in herself, make decisions that are actually for herself, and take pride in some of her accomplishments. I was very struck by how she went to the graves of her grandfather and Anoosh before she left, but I was rather perplexed by how she chose to end the story. Not the fact that it ends with her moving to France, but the specific words she chose.<\/div>\n
She tells us that her grandmother passes away a couple years later and she only managed to see her one time in the time that passes. And then she says “that’s the price of freedom…” I think the ending is left intentionally ambiguous in that sense. Does she mean the price is that she wasn’t with her grandma when she died? Does she mean the entire story? Regardless, the choice to end the story with “…” rather than a simple period really implies to me that the story continues. There’s not perfect moral or lesson to take away from the story. Each person can get what they want from her story.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trigger warning: mentions of attempted suicide There were so many pieces to this final section of Persepolis that really jumped out at me. The first…<\/p>\n

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