For my final paper, I want to write about Persepolis and how its naivete in design and writing help to make the novel more mature, despite the fact that it is written as a graphic novel, and involving the author's childhood.
I haven't exactly formed a thesis yet, but I have been able to gather the quotes from the literary theory that I want to use. I want to use "Graphic Narrative as Witness" for my theory piece for my final paper. From there, I have gathered three quotes.

• "Persepolis is inspired by a different tradition of the avant-garde: it is expressionistic and minimalist. The stylization of Persepolis suggests that the historically traumatic does not have to be visually traumatic." page 137
• "' I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis to see that I grew up just as other children do.'" page 138
• "Persepolis not only does not forget but also, more significant, shows us the process of 'never forgetting' through its layers of verbal and visual narration: it presents the procedure, in addition to the object, of memory. Persepolis proliferates selves on the page." page 143

The pages I want to use from Persepolis to convey my point:

• Page 89
• Cars surrounded by a fire but not burning
• flames are not eve touching the cars.
• brutality in the picture, but it's not actually being portrayed.
• Page 18
• Bottom left panel, talks about Satrapi interrupting her parents to ask them if they want to play Monopoly
• Image of her being a normal child, and wanting to do childlike things despite what is going on in the world around her.
• Page 91
• Images of a family friend's sons and how their childhood was not hindered by any of the world's events.
• They talk about pop culture things, like Star Wars, and wanting to play games.

"I want people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just as other children do."
Marjane Satrapi
"Graphic Narrative as Witness"
page 138

"I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could."
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis
page 32

I think it is really to point out this quote that Satrapi made of herself and her book. I know for me, there is no way that I grew up like her. Yes, I understand that she was a child once, as all of us are at some point, but not everyone has to live through what she lived through. I know I grew up very differently from Satrapi, and I never had to live through a civil war, or an uprising, or persecution. Yes, I struggled growing up, but I never feared for my life, even though I did grow up in Flint, Michigan, a very dangerous city to grow up in.
There is some truth to her quote though, and that is coming to realization of when one loses their naivete. I feel that Satrapi portrays this aspect of herself on page thirty-two in the last frame. It is at this point that Satrapi is tired of asking for answers and having to have everything explained to her, or not explained fully, and she wants to know the whole truth, so she buys a bunch of books and teaches herself about what is going on around her. This is almost like shrugging off her childhood in order to be more aware of her surroundings, even if her surroundings are morbid and dangerous.
I remember our discussion in class the other day, and I remember a few of my classmates said that she lost her childhood and naivete when she wondered about the theater fire, but I think that its in this scene on page thirty-two, because this is her wanting to grow up, and wanting to know what is going on with the world; children don't often seek to find the answers to war, or violence, but she does, and she gets rid of her naivete to do so.