She grows up to be a strong-headed woman, with a mind of her own and unafraid to speak her mind. She questions those in authority and she also questions herself and her own morals. He maintains his freedoms, intellectual and physical, and refuses to apologize for his determination. She is a successful scholar, who learns from her mistakes and keeps going even when her life is hard. Marji has no reason to believe that her parents wouldn't be proud of her. Persepolis was published in 2003, nearly 25 years after the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, with an update in 2009 to include Marji's commentary on the Iranian elections. By telling the story of her life, her parents, her friends and her people, Marji can change the mindset that people in the West have towards Iranians and people living during the conflict in the Middle East as a whole. Nothing lives up to Marji's parents' expectations more than this: the honest, unapologetic approach to the suffering their people have endured and the challenge to Western stereotypes about Iran