She experiments with her femininity, actively disobeys societal restrictions on her actions and character, and lets her intellect control her independently, much to the chagrin of her fundamentalist neighbors and peers. She starts to question her faith, deconstruct it and reconstruct it to match her values. They represent the change and development that character Marji experiences as she progresses from a young age to her relatively rebellious teenage years.Īs Marji grows older, she begins to experience a change in personal views. As the novel progresses, however, the sentences start to become more varied in length, style, and diction. It’s almost as if the author, Satrapi, carefully crafted the young Marji to live up to every societal expectation handed down to her to be followed.
Her mannerisms, speech, and thoughts mirror the fundamentalist Iranian views on society, femininity, religion and sexual practice. Marji’s conversations with other characters in the book generally reflect the traditions and conservative culture of revolutionary Iran, where the novel takes place in. The speech at the beginning of the first chapter is short and underdeveloped. The book was written in a way that the words and diction match the developmental progression of the novel’s main character, Marji.
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