Reading Blog: The Sheep

This chapter reminded me of a movie called Inglorious Bastards.  This chapter and Inglorious Bastards share a similar environment.  Both stories take place in difficult times of war and conflict.  The war in Inglorious Bastards and Persepolis involves discriminating a group of people.  In Persepolis, the communist people are being persecuted, and in Inglorious Bastards, the Jews.  

Inglorious Bastards takes place during World War II in Nazi-occupied France.  At the beginning of the movie, a group of Nazis are searching for Jews to kill in the countryside.  Like the Nazis, the Savacks searched for communists, and killed them.  In Inglorious Bastards, the Nazis stop by a farm where a Jewish family is in hiding.  It takes little time for the Nazis to realize that there are Jews hiding in the house, so one of them begins to shoot everywhere around the house.  A whole Jewish family was killed.  In the case of "The Sheep" a group of Savacks went to Siamack's house to kill him and his family.  His family had already abandoned their house, so his sister was executed in his place.  Inglorious Bastards shows how Jews are discriminated and killed for not belonging to the Aryan race.  In "The Sheep", discrimination is shown, because every person with communist views is killed.

Both stories show that being different can mean losing your life. In both stories there is a clear contrast of good and bad, because you can see that the good are oppressed by the war and the bad are the creators of the war.  Since these stories take place in war times, the victims of discrimination suffer violent, inhumane consequences.