I think that the author of this book exaggerates way to much. It's like she's writing this book so we feel sorry for her because all this bad stuff is happening to her. Don't get me wrong, I like the book fine, I just don't believe what Satrapi is telling me. I sincerely doubt that her first ever boyfriend turned out to be a homosexual and then the next boyfriend after that was cheating on her. Maybe she hates men and wants that to be portayed in her book.
Like Holden in Catcher in the Rye, I find Satrapi to be an unreliable narrator. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe all this stuff actually did happen to her. But I am sticking by my opinion. She's a liar!
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I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one Justin. I thought Marjane was a more reliable narrator than Holden, by far. I believe this for many reasons but we will not get into those right now.
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm going to have to agree with cam on this one and disagree with you. I thought she was a very reliable narrator. The storys she told were real to me, and I thought they all could happen. Marji just seemed to have horrible luck since all those bad things happened to her and not other people too.
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