She and her friends play pretend a lot, pretending to be famous revolutionaries. She believes one day she will be the last prophet, but her classmates ridicule her plan because they think it’s ridiculous. Her mother protests against the changes and her picture appears in newspapers across Europe. Her French non-religious school is abolished and boys and girls are separated for education. There are many protests both for and against this cultural revolution. Then she explains what happened after 1979 when Islamic fundamentalists took over.Īs a ten-year old girl, the author is forced to wear a veil to school by those that called for a cultural revolution in Iran. She tells about the first people to occupy that area and how they established an empire there. In Persepolis, the author gives a brief history of Iran.
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