Persepolis

By Vinc B.
  • Islamic Revolution

  • Protestation against the Shah (monarch)

  • Falling of the Shah

  • 3000 political prisoners are released

  • Marji met her uncle named Anoosh. He was in Prison

  • There are two parties, we don’t know which one will take the power

  • Many families left for the USA

  • Islamic fundamentalists took the power

  • Many changes in the society (school, clothes)

  • Beginning of the war Iran vs. Iraq (bombardment)

  • There are a lot of shortages (food, gas)

  • War still persist, there are many deaths and bombardments. Some young boys are obligated to go to the war

  • Taher, a uncle of Marji decided to send his son in Holland

  • Taher died after a heart attack

  • Iran’s frontiers reopen. Marji’s parents organized a travel in Turkey.

  • Marji weared the clothes that her mom bought in Turkey. She was arrested but released after.

  • Missiles hited Tehran, a lot of buildings are completely destructed.

  • Marji refused to believe the lies that are tell by the professors at school. She contradicted a few times the professor, she is excluded of the school.

  • Marji and her parents will go to Vienne, the capital of Austria, for that Marji finishs her studies.