The Cost...

I was so impressed by the chapter called "The Shabbat". Though this chapter is rather short, it has so much meaning to it.

The cost of the war is a human life. I don't think that we ever think about this until it happens to us. To my mind this is what have happened to Marjane. People have already "accepted" bombing, that was a part of "everyday routine". However, when Marjane hear that the bombing was in her neighborhood, something clicks inside her. She is so fearful that her parents and grandmother are dead, that she immediately runs back home from the shop. I can't imagine what emotions she has when she finally sees her mother, alive and unhurt.

 Moreover, the graphic novel helps the reader to see the story, to feel the emotions. Sometimes pictures "say" even more than words do. When she understands that their neighbors are killed by the bombing, the reader sees only the black square, as no words can ever explain what she felt.

"The Shabbat" illustrates the life of people during the war, when the usual day can suddenly become the last one.