Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Discussion Questions for Part One

1. How does Satrapi portray her friends in scenes following her return from Austria?

2. What makes her uncomfortable about seeing Kia again, and how does she work through that?

3. What does she change after her failed suicide attempt?

4. Which events lead to her friend Roxana never speaking to her again?

5. Why does the "true religious man" give her a strong recommendation following her "ideological test"?

6. What causes her grandmother to yell at her for the first time in her life?

7. Why does Satrapi communicate in images exclusively (without words) from pages 307 to 310?

8. What is the contrast between the final panel in Volume II (p. 341) and the final panel in Volume I (p. 153)?