I completely disagree with her father’s statement. Marji is surviving because her mother and her grandmother have shown her that politics and sentiment are mixed. How could they not be? How can a woman who is forced to cover her hair so that men won’t become excited not feel some form of sentiment or emotion for the situation? If the government made every person drive a yellow car than maybe those rules could be better obeyed with little or no sentiment, but they are asking the women to mask the parts of them that add to their femininity. I am certain Marji’s father was simply trying to teach her to see that the rules of the government are to be taken without changing who she is so that she will not lose herself or lose her life. I feel her mother was doing well by taking in the government’s rules with only a touch of sentiment until the men approached her on the street remarking that she should be raped. At this turning point we see Marji’s mother pull out all the stops on her sentimental drive and allow Persepolis to attend their next rally. At this rally we see how sentiment and government meet and it is not pretty. The men, well the sane men, must have felt sentiment for the women they care for, watching them go through strife so that the perverts of the world can better control themselves. Marji’s grandmother’s sentiment was one of the strengths that helped Marji become who she is, a strong woman who has taken charge of her life, if it was not for her grandmother’s wisdom and emotion Marji may have fallen away from her own character and masked who she really is. It would have been easier for Marji to play the role of a French woman, but her grandmother’s words, filled with emotion, haunted her. Those words reminded Marji of who she was and where she came from. Marji displays her sentimental feelings toward the teachers at school, those women where the ones who showed no sentiments, when she tells the class of the teachers lies and reminds the class of the men in prison suffering as they were being taught that the men were all free. Another time when Marji displays her sentimental feelings is when the men ask her to stop running as it is exciting for them and her response if that they can stop staring at her butt. I am glad she had enough kindled sentiment sorted up to fight her own battles and keep her strong in situations that could have pushed her over the brink so that she could tell this story that needed to be heard.