After reading the first part of Persepolis, the think that stood out to me the most was the bonds that Marji had with each of the people she knew. The bonds with her friends were like most children friendships: if you agree with each other then you friends. The bonds with her her family were of course stronger but the bond that stood out to me was her bond with her uncle Anoosh. This bond looked to me like the typical favorite niece with her favorite uncle bond but then I noticed that she was more interested in her uncle then her father. If you look at the cover of the book, when Marji is looking up at her family she’s looking at her uncle and not her father. Her uncle has had adventures and can tell cool stories while her father was a plain father that wasn’t cool. Marji even told her friends about the stories Anoosh told the show her friends how cool he was. This bond of theirs was so close that she was the last person he talked to in the prison.

I guess the bonds were prominent to me since I have some close bonds with own family. So far in the novel no matter how bad things got the family bonds kept everyone together. At this point in the novel I think Marji’s bonds are still tentative and I’m wondering what will happen to those bonds.. With the exception of Anoosh it does not look as if she takes any of the bond that she has seriously. My question to the responders is about the bonds in general. What do you think that about the bonds between Marji and her family or friends? Good? Bad? Happy? Finicky? Ironclad? Just naming a few things to get you started.