Persepolis Question Three

3. The book shows how that social classes were important. People had to marry in their social class. In the story "The Letter" Satrapi's maid starts to fall for the neighbor, he does not realize that she is a maid. When news got around to Satrapi's family, her father went and told their neighbor the truth. Once he knew that she was a maid, he did not write her any more, he didn't want anything to do with her. Another situation in the book was in the story "The Key" a friend of Satrapi's mother came and told them how the school gave her boy a painted gold key. The key was for their entrance to "paradise" or afterlife. Satrapi found out and asked on of her friends if he got a key, he did not. This shows how the classes were treated differently. The lower class was told that "paradise" was better than the life they have now, they gave it to them and were told this so fighting in the war and dying would not be scary. The keys were not given to the middle class or the upper class because they needed their education. Back then the less money you made, put you in the lower class and in result they were treated differently.