One of the lines that struck me from Suheir's poems are, "I will not dance to your war drum, I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum, I will not dance to that beating," because she refuses to join in and support wars. Another quote that struck me was, "I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you, especially I will not die for you,I will not mourn the dead with murder or suicide," which again, to me, says that she will not support or join wars. Another line from her peoms that struck me was, "Girl spoiled before ripened, language can't math me, I experience exponentially, everything is everything. One woman loses 15 maybe twenty member's of her family, one loses 6, one woman loses her head, One woman searches rubble, one woman feeds on trash." because it reminds me about what happened to Marji and how countries that are at war become impoverished and filled with sadness and death.
The connections between Marjane's ideas and Suheir's ideas on war are that war is painful, pointless, and is not as powerful as peace. Also that too many young people die in wars and that everyone is left broken by war, physicaly and emotionaly. That families are torn apart by wars and death. That refugees (like Marji) don't have many places to go.
Something that struck me about Persepolis is that it gave the point of veiw of someone who knew how life was before and after the revolution, it gave a good comparison of both times. And also that Marjane was very discriptive about how life was in Iran at that time.
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