About the final

We have been going through for a lot of projects and staging performance works this whole year, and we have finally finished the IB exam, which lasts us only one work before the last month of our school year, the final project. So this time our topic is free and open minded, that we can choose whatever we want as scenes and content. Any kinds of books (appropriated) are accepted. So this is a kind of good news, but also a bad news in some way for some certain kinds of people. For example, me. I have limited imagination and I really have a hard time to think about topics and ideas when it is open for us to find. So this is 12 o'clock in the "morning" of Monday, and I just came out of an idea. Although this idea is not quiet solid and completed, but I am still proud to say that it is from my true heart.

So the book that I want to choose is Persepolis. This is the book that we have learned last year, also from Ms. Guarino's class. That is the first book that I really liked and payed a lot of attention on reading it since I started to read English books. So that should be the top choice which gave me a a strong impression. Although I know that mostly the choice for staging should be more comedy like, or at least not a heavy topic in order to let classmates to come and participate. But this is the topic what I love to talk about, the unfortunate mixture of politic, time period, religion, and the chaos of homeland. That topic is heavier than everything that we can think of, but also that is really valuable to make literature product. 

That book brings us back to the chaos of 1979 the Islamic revolution of Iran and how the author's life changed, as a participant, a watcher, and a 9 years old young girl who even did not quiet understand what have changed for her life, and homeland. 1870-1980 is the time period of chaos in worldwide, and people had to fight against the struggles from governments, or even stronger powers. And that is life. The whole book tells the story from when the riot against the Shah, the last dynasty of Iran, and then the Islamic revolution started, when the main character was a 9 years old girl, ends up f or her adventure in Europe which her parents sent her to there, Vienna of Austria. They were worried for her safety. The author is also the narrator, which makes this comic book more like an autobiography. The "camera" is always on the moments of life on Marja, the girl who suffered from life. 

I believe that book is a wealthy choice with so many possibilities to stage for, although I do not have a clear idea for them.

In the end, I want to quote from her comments for the book.

"I know, when I choose to tell this story, I can not go back , forever. My homeland, Persepolis. The Mountain Alberz with shinning snow, and the smell of jasmine from my grandma. 

However, I choose to tell you the story, from Persepolis of the Ancient Persian civilization, to the mysterious scarf of Iran in nowadays. I remember my grandma's words forever, "Do not forget where you are from. "

That is my pure childhood within the revolution, my vagrancy of my love in my youth.

This is my Iran, my homeland.

This is my Persepolis. "