Images are as important as words

    Some people think reading words is the only way you can get knowledges. They opposed to read comics and think that is wasting of our time. However, the fact is that images are as important as the words. Images can even give us more information than just words. When we are free and want to read books, words usually will make us feel bored and can't totally relax ourselves from a busy day. People will choose to read comics instead. Because in comics, although there are words in it, we will be able to see the scenes when a story happened. Also, these pictures in the book usually excite us and open our mind to allow more imagination to occur. "Persepolis",written by Marjane Satrapi, is a very good example to support this point of view. 

     "Persepolis" is a book which was consisted by a lot of pictures to tell us about stories that happened on a little girl in Iran. Author Marjane Satrapi draws a lot of pictures to let us know about the real past of Iran. It is a book of her memories from childhood. When Marjane was 10, the "Islamic Revolution" took place in Tehran. People were demonstrating on the street to fight the Shah. Her parents also went to the demonstration and want to their old Iran back. Some people were arrested and put into the jail. When Marjane heard her parents' friends talk about the torturing in the jail, she was terrified. She started to imagine the sences. The first picture in page 52 showed what Marjane had imagined. When she heard about Ahmadi was cut into piece, she thought it as a doll was cut into pieces. In the picture, the man was very fake, and it was empty inside of his body. As we all knew, if a person was cut, there should be blood around. But was no blood around the man in the picture. Marjane was only a little girl, in her world, there were no pictures of horrifying things like a bloody died body. The picture of the man was the worst condition she could imagine. 

     Marjane was a very special and unique girl. She wasn't like other children at her age. She liked talking with God. And she had a very "strange" dream which she wanted to be a prophet when she grew up. She believed it was God who chose him to be the best and last prophet. In page number 8, the first and the second picture showed what God looked like in her thought. God is a very kindly and peaceful old man. His imagine was like Santa Claus. He held Marjane around with his arms like a baby lean close to him. This is Marjane's God. Her God is not like other's for worshiping but a very close friend to her. 

      All these information I get is by seeing the pictures in the book. I can totally know Marjane's inside world and try to understand the reason she feels like that. It's very interesting when you totally see a through a person from the words she said, the emotion that appears on her face. This is what you can get that you won't able to know from just words. In this case, I think images are as crucial as words for us to read a book.