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The story "This One Summer" talks about the story of Rose's time at Lake Awago during the summer. As usual, it starts out the same way as it always does, then there are crushes, arguments starting between her mother and father, the guy Rose likes turns out to be a jerk towards his now pregnant girlfriend, and Rose goes against her mother. There are a lot of issues during throughout this story, and towards the end, it was revealed that her mother had a miscarriage the summer before which affected her greatly. It is yet another interesting read, not just by the art but the storyline itself with an interesting composition of the art that is laid out throughout the entire comic.

Persepolis is the story starting off in the early 1980s where a young woman named Marjane Satrapi will learn to grow for herself in time from the conflict she deals within her own country. She becomes fond of her Uncle Anoosh who resists against the political and religious turmoil in Iran, but it pushes her own self even further after he is executed. Her parents start to worry that Marjane might end up facing the same fate if she continued following her passion for social activism after her uncle inspired her. She ends up being moved to Vienna and eventually wants to come back which she eventually does after dealing with nuns and becoming homeless because she feels her family is her own support system. Coming back she continues fighting social activism, gets married and then divorced after some time. Eventually, Marjane decides that Iran is not for her and moves back to Europe and that is the last time she sees her grandmother who passes away soon after. I enjoyed watching the movie first then going back to the comics, an interesting read in storytelling and art.

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