gabriel's week one feedback

mr macuiggan said during Thursday's class that one of the driving questions behind our study of persepolis is the question "what drives us to tell our stories?". my first anwer to this question was "because our stories should be told". as an elaboration, i have a sense that there is something inside people that wants to share the stories of what shaped the course of our lives. maybe the reason behind our drive is that we want to help people by telling them our mistakes and our triumphs. Maybe Marjane is trying to help people refine their reactions to extreme oppressive sosieties and help people better rebel against them. telling stories is trying to help people in a way familiar to the teller.