Outside Reading #5

For this outside reading, I am going to talk about the new graphic novel that we are reading called Persepolis. I started reading this book yesterday, and have already found myself at page 140. I have really enjoyed this book, and the pictures have been a really nice change from the normal all-text books we have been reading. The novel is about a young girl in Iran that has to grow up during a time of war. She undergoes a lot of changes, and matures as the war goes on. She is a very rebellious girl, but usually for the right reasons. She slaps her teacher, but only because her teacher was trying to get her to practice the religion of the fundamentalists. Many of her close friends and relatives die in the book, but she perseveres and stays strong through times of hardships. Right now I am at the part where her parents are considering shipping her off to Austria.