"A picture can say a thousand words"

I have been converted! Let me state that while at first my impression was a bit skeptically but I really enjoyed reading this book and also watching the movie of Persepolis 2. There were many images and many words that resonated deeply with me but the one image that struck me the most without any words is on page 140, top image. It is just after Marji learned that the recent bomb that went off was on her street. She is walking down the street with her head low and very distraught. She can’t bring herself to lift her head and look and her legs are trying to fail her as she walks towards the wreckage. In the background there is widows busted out and glass everywhere from the impact. She keeps saying over and over again “Let them be alive, let them be alive.” This for her was her worst nightmare coming true. I think that I can speak for everyone when I say that in her shoes we would all feel the same. I too have had a close to home experience were something terrible happened to my loved one and I had no idea if he was alive or dead. It took several hours of waiting, which was the longest hours of my life, for my family to receive confirmation that my loved one was in fact still alive and in very critical condition, then came the waiting again to see if he was going to pull through. I cannot image what growing up for Marji was like in this type of environment. This for me was the one moment where things got really real for Marji and maybe because of my own experience really hit home. I was glad to continue reading and to see Marji reunited with her family unharmed.