Wars happen every single day, all over the world. Although kids should not be exposed to them, they are. Young children are traumatized by the by the graphic things that they have to see and the overall confusing concept of war. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi discusses many heavy topics, the main topic being war. The book will most likely be problematic for young children,(ages 11 and down) therefore should be limited to only older and more mature people.
Certain scenes in the book are too graphic for young kids. They might be traumatized by the scenes and be scared by seeing the drawings in the book and reading the excruciating detail. For instance, on page 40 of the book Marjane wrote, "After Black Friday, there was one massacre after another, May people were killed." Many young kids would be dolorous with the content of the book.
Young kids cannot apprehend war. This is just one of the many things kids around the age that Marjane was during the war in her country did not understand. To corroborate, Marjane wrote on page 92, "We didn't really like the veils, especially since we didn't understand why we had to wear them." If young kids cannot understand why they were being obtruded with the veil, they definitely could not understand why a war would start and why a war would be so violent and relentless.
This connects to the world because wars happen everywhere, everyday. Unfortunately, young kids cannot choose not to be there. They are traumatized by just looking out of their windows. Not having young kids read books like Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is one way of limiting the amount of traumatized and disturbed children trying to cope and understand war.
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