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= = BJ I chose the picture on page 95 of the school girls beating their chests. I believe that this picture is very important to the book's message because it shows many things. First of all, it shows how the government has basically brainwashed the people into doing whatever they want. Also, if you look at the girls' faces, the majority of them have very blank expressions. Some of them, however, are genuinely sad, and another is angry with her situation.

SH The first panel on page 102 is a significant picture to me because it shows thatkids gave up thier life on Earth to go to heaven for a better one. With the keys around thier neck the poor people thought they would go to heaven. To be so young and not to know much about life is a risky thing to do. It shows how much these kids cured for thier country.

JG My favorite comic square is on the bottom left hand corner on page 46. it shows emotion in a way that words can't just can't show. It shows sadhess, worry, and exitement all in one drawing. This contributes to the story because at this time in the story everyone in Iran was feeling those same emotions.

KH My favorite panel in Persepolis is the first panel on page 64. This panel is my favorite because it show the people that are headed to the United States because of the things that have occured in their country. It also shows how alot of people are leaving their family members behind because they all have different ideas about what is going to happen in their country.

CA In persepolis the picture that I thought had the most meaning was on page 65 (bottom right corner) I think the picture where Anoosh says "Everything will be alright" summarizes the meaning of the book because I think it is the main saying in the book and throughout the story they either say or imply the phrase. During the bombing, her uncle having a heart attack, when a bomb hit their neighbor's house, when her mom was harrassed, at the end when she has to leave Iran, etc. They always say something like "Everything will be alright"

EH I chose the first panel on page 116 becaue Marji is really starting to realize how bad her situation is. When she says "when it think we could have avoided it all... it just makes me sick.A million people would be alive," then progresses on page 117 to "leave" childhood by smoking a cigarrette that she stole from her uncle, she is becoming a woman in a sense that she realizes what is happening. That the survival of the current regime depends on the war, that innocent people are dying, that to be a child in this environment would not do. She became an adult that way because, i think, she thought that she could make a change in the situation in Iran at the time. She also said she sealed her rebellion against her mother's dictatorship by smoking that cigarrette, in other words, she wanted to have her own point of view in all that was happenning, not her parents' point of view.