Jordan; day 5

Jessica; Well we are reading the same book "Persepolis". And in this book Marjane is growing up during a very rough time, Iranian Revolution. Her main problems are that she has a hunger for knowledge that is hard to obtain, about her family history and reasonings for events that take place in her world. She wants to know why the terrible events going on, are happening. But being so young there are certain things that her family thinks she is not old enough to understand. Like when she wants to know about her grandfather, she is brushed off.

When i was young, i didnt really go through any problems. My life was mostly carefree. Except, in 2001 when 9/11 happened. I was ten, when it first happened i dint understand what was going on nor did i understand the extent of it. As days went on i started to understand and i got angry that the media kept showing the attacks on tv and the victims family had to see i over and over again.

Debbie; In Persepolis the book starts off in school. Marjane learns in school that "The Shah" was picked by god to rule the country. So one day after her parents got home from protesting against the king, they were complaining. Marji said she loves the king, he was chosen by god. Her parents were flabergasted. They told her that what she thought she knew was in actuality wrong. She didnt want to listen nor believe anything they had to say because it was written in a book. So her father had to explain how he became the king. She soon understood the real truth.

As for me, well when i was younger I loved to watch "Friday" and during the movie when they are smoking and the song " Mary Jane" by rick james comes on. So of course i knew it. It was my jam!! So one day im in the car with my sister and it came on ( i was like 8) so i was like " aww snaps, this my jam!!!' She was like "huh" . . . so i dtarted to sing it and she cut it off and asked did i know what it was about and i thought the song was about Mary J. Blige. I thought it said "Mary J." so she told me that back in the day when the song came out they couldnt say "weed" so they called it Mary Jane. SO then I refused to beleive it, because that was my favorite song. So after i got older i realized she was write. That was my hard truth.