![]() By Edith Mesa Staff Writer Currently in the CPS seventh grade classroom curriculum, the memoir of a young Iranian girl named Marjane Satrapi is being deemed inappropriate for seventh graders because of images containing the torture and violence that many Iranians had to suffer during the Iranian Revolution. However, many CPS students and staff disagreed and protested in front of Daley Plaza and CPS headquarters to voice their concern with CPS having the proposal for banning the book. Personally reading the book, it can be seen that there is moderate violence throughout the memoir to show how the events played out throughout the revolution. The story consists of a young Iranian girl who wants to become a prophet when she grows up. Soon enough, however, she discovers how her plans are destroyed when the revolution occurs and many rules are changed. One of the main changes was extreme religious customs and the making mandatory for women to wear a veil. In this memoir, Satrapi explains how bombs, protests, and war killed millions of people, including children who were recruited to be soldiers. The story portrays how people who were against the revolution and those viewed as communists were arrested and sent to prison to be tortured into confessions, and most of the time the inmates being tortured were innocent. Although the book does contain drawings of the violence and an occasional torture, much of the violence is shown in a way that students at the seventh grade level can comprehend without creating trauma. Much of the memoir is Satrapi examining her life, dreams, and wants. With the violence being moderate, I believe that the book is appropriate because it not only explains and narrates how the war really happened, but also provides a personal feeling of someone who lived through it all. Not only does it show the oppression of a country, but it shows how life can change in an instant. This book can complement what history books say, so that students may know not only the historical facts, but know what the citizens of Iran lived through and felt.
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