Argument Essay-Persepolis
DRAFT # 2
A book having sexual harassment, violence, and murder can
be disturbing, especially for kids in seventh grade and under. This situation
happens to relate with the book, Persepolis, By: Marjani Satrapi. All though it
has some disturbing scenes, it should not be banned, because of its realistic
history, with also not being fair to the kids that are mature enough for it.
Besides that, Persepolis should be only available in shelves of eight grade
classes and above. So basically this book should not get accessed by kids in
seventh grade and under.
Additionally, kids in seventh grade and under should not
be able to access Persepolis, and read it, for many reasons. Most of the reasons
come from the book itself. “They insulted me. They said that women like me should
be pushed up against a wall and fucked. And then thrown in the garbage, (Pg.74)”
this quote is beyond minds of kids in seventh grade and under, because it is a
scene where they might not understand of what’s going on, or feel uncomfortable
with the concept of it. Also that quote can probably make them tense since they
usually don’t read scenes like this often. Another text from the book was “As
for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by
smoking cigarette I’d stolen from my uncle, (Pg.117)” this quotation can
influence seventh grade and under kids in a bad way because they are not mature
enough to understand if the action that is taking place in the scene is a good
or a bad thing to learn from. A quote
that also shows why seventh graders and below kids shouldn’t read this book is,
“My mother was right to believe it was a murder...when they found his body,
only the head was underwater, (Pg.65)” this can shock seventh graders of how
ruthlessly someone was murdered, because they might have not heard of this type
of murder before, and get traumatized. Overall this book contains many scenes
that can affect kids in seventh grade and below in various ways.
Furthermore, letting kids in seventh grade or under read
Persepolis will just harm in various ways. Some of those ways are stated in the
article “The sick-lit books aimed at children: It’s a disturbing phenomenon.
Tales of teenage cancer, self-harm and suicide...” One of the ways the author
mentioned is “They are aimed at young teens at a time when they most likely go
through self-harm,” this shows that authors like Marjani Satapri may influence
kids into self-harm by stating examples of how to. Another thing they mentioned
in the article is that “When young people are lost in such traumatic states,
it’s vital that they don’t feel alone, he says. Isolation makes the situation
worse and their problems more entrenched,” this shows that if kids get in
traumatic states, like by reading disturbing text in Persepolis, their mental
situation can get worse. The third type of text the article includes is related
to the text I recently stated, “How do I know this? Because young people going
through such trauma have told me so. Child psychologist Emma Citron urges
parents to keep a careful eye on their children if they find they keep reading
these books- particularly if they are under 15,” this shows that Emma is trying
to tell parents in particularly to keep their eyes on children who are reading
these books and are under fifteen, which basically shows that possibly mostly
kids fifteen years and younger have gone through trauma by reading these types
of books, like Persepolis. Overall the article had many reasons related to
pointing out ways of how Persepolis may harm kids in many ways.
Moreover, there are also reasons why seventh graders and
below kids, should be able to access this book, but without a strong reasoning.
Some of these reason come from the article “Why Chicago’s Persepolis Book Ban
Hurts Students Most”. One of text is “I survived nihilism, similar to so many
other teenage experiences, through books like Persepolis,” even though the
author got some benefit, like surviving nihilism, doesn’t mean every seventh
grader will see Persepolis, benefiting them, and instead may become the
opposite. Another text that the author
shows is “... revolutionary spirit of Satapri’s selfie-protagonist will inspire
girls to congregate, make art,” even if there are some girls in the seventh
grade or below, that get inspired by it on the other hand they also might feel
insecure about themselves at the same time, by reading about what happen to
girls before in Iran. Also how might that help the boys if they read
Persepolis? A text the author of the article also includes is “Some will become
heroines in their own narratives. That’s
precisely what Persepolis is all about,” this text is trying to say that girls
may become confident of themselves after reading the book, but what if the
girls in the grades of seventh and below just get low self-esteem instead, from
the scenes they weren’t aware of. Also if that was what Persepolis was about,
then why did they include murder and violence, that created a worse situation
in the book, which also wasn’t related too anything that would encourage
confidence in girls? Overall even if the article, “Why Chicago’s Persepolis
Book Ban Hurts Students Most” has some partly reasonable evidence why seventh
grade and below kids should read this book, it doesn’t really portray why
seventh grader really should get access.
In
Conclusion, the evidence that has been stated for kids in seventh grade and
below to not have access to Persepolis is reasonable because the context
Persepolis provides isn’t for kids who are mentally mature enough for this, and
in my point of view that goes to kids in seventh grade and below. One of the reasons
is because I picked out Persepolis in seventh grade from the class library, and
when I started to read it I didn’t understand it, nor did I feel comfortable
reading it because of its disturbing scenes. Overall Persepolis is meant for
eighth graders and above, which eventually kids in seventh grade and lower will
become, but will have to be patient to become mature enough for it.
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