A visit to Hell

Hey Znep, I finally read the book so I can finally call this entry a masterpiece although this entry is so gory and cruel that I can't even accept someone who would do such a thing as human. At this moment, the reign of the Shah has ended and is replaced by a Muslim regime. Even though the people were happy that the Shah was gone, still all did not look good for Marjie and her family ( Marjane Satrapi was called Marjie back then). After the end of the Shah's rule, Prisoners who was thrown in jail for opposing the Shah was released and two in particular Siamak Jari and Mohsen Shakiba was friends with Marjie's family. In this picture,they recounted their horrible experience and all the inhumane treatment they had to go thorugh that I could not find their experience being described as less than a visit to hell. Mohsen's nail was pulled off, they were whipped most of the time to get them to betray their fellow friends who were in hiding, they were also sometimes tortured by having hot iron placed on their backs and worst of all, some of them were cut into pieces.(Satrapi 50-52) It is appalling what they did back then that I shed a tear for these people who were brutally tortured. I can understand why in the beginning of this section Marjie could actually say to her friend Laly: "don't you know that when they keep saying someone is on a trip it really means he/she is dead?"(Satrapi 48) with out considering Laly's feelings whom have been told her father was on a trip. Yet even after the Shah's reign was over and everybody was released including Laly's Father, the Muslim regime was no better. Few days after Mohsen shared his experience, The people who acted under the new government murdered him by drowning him in his bathtub. As for Siamak, fortunately he managed to avoid the same fate but at the price of his sister who was killed because at that time Siamak was not at home. Well, this is today's summary I hope that you won't be so disgusted that you stop reading this summaries and just stay tuned for another masterpiece in the near future.

The history of Marjane Satrapi

Hey Znep, today has not been a very good day. I was supposed to read a what surprisingly seems like a comic entitled "Persepolis" but did not manage to finish it because I was doing too many things in the weekend. That will teach me to procrastinate in the future T_T. So anyway, even though i only manage to leaf through the first few page, I find myself having an epiphany about Iran the country. All this time, I thought all middle east people like Iraq, Iran,etc are all evil because of all their problems and how they choose to solve it.(No offense I know you are from turkey which makes it kinda close). Yet, after reading Marjane Satrapi's introduction and reading the first few page of the book, I finally realize that Iran is actually victim to a common enemy : "stereotyping" just because of some bad seeds who seems to not value their lives, The whole of Iran takes the blame. Anyway, this is my first time and I know I suck at this LOL but I hope I'll do better next time.