The second book is about marjane's new life outs side of iran. She moves around from place to place never really fitting in and being confused by the western culture that she is being introduced to. She is introduced to many new things such as smoking sex and drugs. She feels a little disgusted in herself at first because she feels as though she is betraying her country and her mothers honor by not being the best she can be, later she starts to join in more but only pretends. It isn't until things continue to go wrong that she finally decides to join in and actually starts participating in drug use. The more things go wrong for her the more she uses. Having troubles in school and with money she calls her mom and asks her to pray for her marjane gets a job and is also selling drugs when confronted by her instructor she quits selling drugs but starts doing more of them herself this turns her boyfriend off and she falls apart. Living on the streets for 2 months she gets sick and then ends up going back to iran.
In the movie the first half is soo much like the first book but when they introduce the second book it starts out by her smoking and briefly talking about what she had went through and then she goes home and they ad some new parts to the story. I'm not sure why the second half doesn't follow the book as closely as the first half does but I enjoyed the movie regardless.
I love how in the second book she still sticks to the black and white images and I also love how she depicts herself in the story. the attitude that she shows in her face throughout all of her tough times. I feel that if she would have switched it up and added color that it would have lost a lot of its energy and would have put a cheerful attitude to something so gloomy.
Even in the movie she holds true to the black and white imagery I just love it. Over all I just love the whole story and how she sticks to her style so well. It's honestly really well done and gets me really excited. I wish there was more to it than just the 2 books and the movie, maybe someday with time she will add a story about her in her old age.
