Persepolis

"...Pardisse's report was by far the best. It was a letter to her father in which she promised to take care of her mother and her little brother. "Rest in peace, dad." At recess I tried to console her... "You father acted like a genuine hero, you should be proud of him!" "I wish he were alive and in jail rather than dead and a hero." Those were her exact words to me." (Satrapi, 86)

This story was a very heavy, emotional, violent autobiography of one girls struggle with the revolution in her country of Iran. While you get many stories of personal loss in this graphic novel, this one stuck out to me the most, because it shows you the revolution from the point of view of a little girl who lost her dad in the fight to reclaim the former freedom of his country.

Pardisse's response to Marji's statement that she should be proud of her father really put the fight into an entirely new perspective. Marji was so caught up in the politics of the whole thing that it seemed she'd lost sight of the human aspect. Yes she'd experienced loss but not of a parent, so she couldn't fully appreciate Pardisse's situation until she got a first hand account of the pain of losing a parent. This is not entirely her fault, after all Marji is very young in this story, and is experiencing things that most adults have a difficult time dealing with and understanding.

The illustration of this part of the story showed that everybody felt compassion and sympathy for this girls situation. We do not know for sure how each of them felt on the subject of the revolution, but in this moment they were all united in their sympathy for Pardisse and her family.