With the graphic narrative “Persepolis”, the famous author Marjane Satrapi gives an interesting approach to the way she tells her childhood story and an even more interesting and personal perspective on the First Persian Gulf War. By the creative utilization of comic squares and drawings, Satrapi allows for the reader to enter a different dimension into which normal text could not transcend. In this different dimension, the reader sees the First Persian Gulf War from not only a first-person point of view but also a second-person point of view. Satrapi gives Marji’s point of view—the character that experiences the childhood—and, by including narrations throughout the entirety of the book, she gives a point of view of her childhood in retrospect. In this way, the reader has two sources of information throughout the narrative, giving the story an all-the-more immersive and revealing experience. When I read this piece of graphic literature, I found it eyeopening in a way that history books could never attempt to accomplish. Instead of giving a solely factual history of the First Persian Gulf War, Satrapi gives a valuable and emotional first-hand account of the war. By doing so, she affectively inspired a sense of awareness and gratefulness in me for how fortunate I am to live in a relatively more peaceful area of the world and a sense of empathy for the people, like Satrapi, who were not so fortunate and have to undesirably encounter war on a daily basis. Likewise, I think it is important to understand that these kinds of people who do not approve of religion and war-concentrated government, like Marji’s family, exist in countries that are submerged in bloodshed. Oftentimes we presume that just because a country’s leader behaves in a certain way, the entire country he presides over has the same set of morals and behavioural values. For example, as an American, I hear countless slurs arising from the hate for Afghan people that is perceived by many Americans in accordance with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Even after it is obvious that only a small group of Muslim extremists, al-Qaeda, was responsible, most Americans have put the blame on the entire country of Afghanistan and even Muslims as a whole. For this reason, I believe Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” is essential not only to better understand what Iranian individuals endured during the First Persian Gulf War, but to better understand a subculture that exists separate from the prominent political figure of a country and his or her decisions made on its behalf.