I'm Only Human

For your final blog post on Persepolis, you may write about anything else that interested you about the novel that you have not yet had a chance to write about.

One thing that I found interesting was when Marjane would poke her eyes to give the illusion that she was high. She did this because her friends did drugs, but she didn't want to, and yet, she wanted to be accepted. 

I liked this because it shows that even a child who had seen war and whose family was torn apart is still human. She still wants to be accepted by someone, anyone. She needs to be accepted. In fact, Marjane goes to great lengths trying to be accepted throughout the course of the book, including becoming a drug dealer. 

It just goes to illustrate that no matter who you are and what you've been through--you're still only human and we're all doing the best we can with what we have.