Persepolis Mortality Quotes

That's the one very small upside to dying in Iran: you're probably going to be honored as a martyr. The downside is that, well, you're dead, and that your memory is being exploited for political gain, depending on which side honors your death.

This whole honoring-the-dead thing sounds kind of nice, but it's once again turning death into propaganda. It's a way of forcing people, especially kids, into believing that dying for their country is a good thing.

This is the only time Marji explicitly expresses this. The closer the bombs get to home, the more the reality sets in: Marji and her family could actually die. It's easy for them to think that it won't happen to them when the bombs are farther away.