Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Essay -- Memoir

Growing Up SatrapiIt is hard to tell the story of a typical callowness and it is hard to write a story thatrelates to experiences in everyones lives, but this is exactly what Marjane Satrapiaccomplished in her memoir. Persepolis is the story of a childs growing frompreteen to adult. The specific challenges that Satrapi faces ar unique to hersituation, but we can ask whether they accurately portray the psychologicaldevelopment that children go through. Do her reactions to situations resemble thereactions that some children have to like problems? While reading Satrapisstory, it is necessary to understand that the circumstances she encounters and herreaction to these circumstances parallel how youths around the world react tosimilar situations. Throughout her memoir, Satrapi uses stepping-stones that allchildren use and reaches the same stages of development that psychologists believemost children reach. For these reasons, Persepolis is a believable coming of agestory.Throughout a childs life, many factors influence their socialization. In Persepolis,Satrapi demonstrates the three major microsystems1 that influence a childssocialization family, education, and community. As a ten year quondam(a) child, Marjanelives in a typical nuclear family, her community is currently in the midst of arevolution, and her school is teaching her how to look and act like a proper woman.It is important to understand how these three microsystems are crucial inMarjanes development as a young adolescent.In American society, schools are used to educate children on how to becomeindependent members of society. Children are expected to abide by rules that areestablished in the classroom, and they are taught to mo... ...Company, 2004.Dopheide, Julie A. Recognizing and treating depression in children andadolescents. Clinical Reviews 01 2006. Feb 2006 .Elias, Marilyn . After suicide link, kids taking fewer antidepressants. USA Today25 Oct 2005. Feb 2006 .Halgin, Richard, and Susan Whitb ourne. Abnormal Psychology Clinical Perspectiveson Psychological Disorders. 4th ed. rising York McGraw-Hill, 2003.Rice, F. Philip, and Kim Gale. The Adolescent Development, Relationships, andCulture. 11th ed. Boston Pearson Education , Inc., 2006.Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis The story of a childhood. Pantheon Books, 2003.Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis Two The story of a return. Pantheon Books, 2004.Williams, Armstrong. Teen Suicide. The New York Amsterdam News 11 Jan 2006.Feb 2006 .