Day 5: Chris

Kyle Response:

I think everyone in "The Complete Perseopolis" are having realizations about many different things. Marjane is starting to learn the seriousness of war and that everything cannot go her way and when it doesn't she can't always blame someone or something. She's adapting to this day by day but you can tell she is having a hard time doing so. Like when her uncle was sentenced to death, the person she depended on most was God and so she blamed her uncle's death on him and since then we haven't seen God throughout the book. I believe soon she will realize this was a mistake and learn to let God back in her life. Marjane's parents are even starting to show signs of realizing they can't do it all to stop this war. It reminds me of how I use to always try to win arguments of who was with right and wrong with teachers. I of course always lost simply because they have higher authority over me and the same holds true to Marjane's parents with the war. Some things you have to just roll with and hope things turn out the way you want them and if not work with whatever the outcome as best you can. The problem with finding out problems such as these on your own is how devastating it can be to finally learn the truth, especially if what you find is not what you want. I think this applies to Marjane's mother conflict with the women in the grocery store. She had come to realize that even with a huge war going on, people still found a way to separate themselves from one another and put down the next person which is terrible. This is how it is in modern days as well. The only time people seem to put aside differences is when a major tragedy happens and after awhile things go back to how they once were. I think we all as a people can do better.

Taturm Response:

Marjane has the hardest time struggling with right and wrong simply because she is still trying to figure out what is right and what is wrong. As she's getting older she's starting to decide on her own, but at the same time it becomes difficult because what's right in say her parents eyes is frown upon by someone else like say her teacher. I think this is what Marjane, the author wants the reader to understand and that is you can't please everyone and you have to walk your own path regardless of what other people think. Do what is right for you. She deals with this simply by learning from her mistakes and trying fully understand everything around her so that there's no room for error. This really makes me view Marjane as the little kid she is seeing as she's trying so hard to do what's right. I can't compare Marjane with items but rather two different kinds of people, a teacher and a student. She is a student in my eyes because she wants to learn so much and she is with each passing day, but at the same time she always wants to teach people around her about what's happening in their surroundings. I wish I was more like that but I would compare myself to coffee and juice. I says this because I know I have my bitter side where I can be very negative and come off as a complete jerk, but on the other hand I've been told I can be a big sweetheart and easy to get along with. Everyday I'm learning to balance the two, because without these two sides I wouldn't be who I am now.