In Persepolis on page 31 a scene is depicted where the father went to the hospital to take pictures of a group of people that were carrying a man out that was killed by the army and right after him another group of men are carrying another man but his widow gets upset when they start to call him a martyr.
"Please! Stop It! Stop It!
What? What is it?
Stop it!
Who are You?
His Widow!
Are You a Royalist?
No, but my husband died of Cancer" (Satrapi, pg 31)
What I found most interesting about the illustrations for this particular quote and this situation was that the people yelling about the martyrs were angry and upset but the widow didn't look that angry. I also found it interesting that in this particular section of illustrations the widow after telling them what her husband died of ended up yelling about how bad the government was and began to protest with the rest of them. I think these frames are important to the novel because it shows how the people in the country progressed over time after the government was overthrown and how it affected the people emotionally. I guess my big question to this section is did they begin to call the man a martyr after they found out what he died from just to draw attention to themselves? Why did the widow start to protest with them?
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