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The Passport (Persepolis) (Characters (Uncle - Taher (Visits Marjane's…
The Passport (Persepolis)
Setting
Uncle Taher's house
Chapter begins at the uncle Taher's house.
Hospital
The hospital demonstrates how the new regime has allowed those opportunists who once were in a lower class to rise up to the higher class if they also abide by the religious rules of the regime
Khosro's Basement
He also hides in his basement a young lady named Niloufar, a communist who the police have been trying to find.
Characters
Uncle - Taher
Visits Marjane's family to tell them of his son who he has sent to Holland for safety but the borders of iran have closed to Taher so he can't leave.
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane and her father go to meet khosro to get uncle taher a fake passport so he can get his heart surgery.
Father - Mr. Satrapi
Goes with Marjane to meet a man named Khosro who spent time in prison with anoosh (Marjane's Uncle who fled to the USSR but was executed) and he makes fake passports for people seeking to leave the country.
Mother - Mrs. Satrapi
Does not have an important part in the chapter
Doctor
a doctor shows Taher’s wife and Marjane’s family the swamped hospital premises, in order to explain why supplies are so short.
plot
Families have been separated, and because the war threatens to drag on for a long time, many wonder, legitimately, whether they will ever be reunited with their loved ones.
Taher needs open heart surgery in England, but the only way for him to receive a permit to leave the country is if the hospital director agrees. However, the hospital director, who is actually Taher’s former window washer, refuses to help him.
Cost of War
Swamped hospital premises, in order to explain why supplies are so short.
Create fake passports to leave the country
Themes
This chapter further explores the human cost of the war
families have been separated many wonder whether they will ever be reunited with their loved ones
having to sacrifice their own happiness and wellbeing
Most likely the hospital director invokes the will of God to show Taher how the tables have been turned—a power play rather than true religious devotion.
Though Taher would have been able to fly out to London with a fake passport and thus his life would have been saved, Khosro has to flee the country and cannot help him
The irony is that at the end Taher does receive a real government-issued passport, but only on the same day as his death.