Hi again, the entry that I'm about to write this time will be a little different, not about torture or politics. One of my classmate Miho had a presentation about this part but I would like to share my point of view about social class. In the book Pesepolis Marjane, the story has a maid named Mehri. She lived with Marsjane since she was ten years old. Mehri came to stay with Marjane's family because her parents had too many children and could not provide food for her. When she was sixteen years old, she fell in love with the neighborhood son across from Marjane's house. They started to write letters to each other, and eventually both fell in love. Mehri told her real sister that she fell in love and sooner of later, her sister fell in love with the same man as well. Her sister was very jealous of Mehri and told Marjane’s uncle the news. This eventually reached Marjane’s dad. Her dad try to clear everything and went to the neighbor’s son. Soon Mehri was rejected by that guy because she was viewed as low class. In the book, it states, “you must understand that their love was imposible”(Satrapi 37)
Social class in particular has been an issue for long time. Many people view social class from many different background such as economic and race. The societies believe that the poor can not and should not be mixed with the rich, just like in the book, Persepolis. Poor people are always viewed as parasites that will suck down on rich people's wealth. No matter what their personality is, once they are viewed as poor or low class, people cannot over look that fact. Because of this, they are brought down, and the depression from it makes it hard for them to be motivated to be better in life. Since Mehri was a member of the lower class, she could not really do much about her situation and seek her true love because that guy she loved was a member of the upper class.
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