A veil is a piece of cloth that you place over your head. It may be sheer, covering from eyes to chin. It may be thick and draped over your hair and forehead. In any case it hides a part of your body. It covers not only how you look but also who you are, hiding you under fabric and suffocating your individuality. Marjane Satrapi chose to tell her story “The Veil” in a unique way that uses her particular interpretation of a character to express the overall meaning of finding one's identity. Satrapi creates a 10-year-old girl named Marji. Marji has two mixed feelings about having to wear the veil “I didn't really know what to think of the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde” (Velo 757). Satrapi uses pictures instead of words to tell her story, so I'll describe the pictures to you. The drawing that accompanies this quote above shows a box where Marji is standing with two different backgrounds behind her, dividing it in half. The right side of the drawing shows an abstract view of religion. It has a white background on which black tendrils with meandering leaves are shown. Marji wears the black veil on this side. To the left of the player it has a black background with white objects such as a hammer, ruler and gears. Marji is shown wearing a white t-shirt. The point of this entire panel is to show the reader how confused Marji seems about which identity to follow. On the one hand, Marji sees her identity as religious. She wants to conform to what is happening around her by wearing the veil and following her profound religion. She doesn't want to be considered an outcast by society. Satrapi shows it further... half of the paper... solution. Ultimately Marji decides that she doesn't have to settle for just one identity. Its particular identity, he concludes, is that of being more than one thing. “I wanted to be justice, love and wrath of God together” (Veil 760). As she talks to God in her bedroom, she declares that her once plain white nightgown has now become something different. She embraced her true identity and went from a solid white nightgown to one dotted with black flowers. Marji combined her modern avant-garde with religion. Satrapi shows that Marji has finally found her individuality by combining everything that has happened so far in her young life. Works CitedCharters, Ann. The story and its writer, an introduction to short fiction. Compact 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2011. Print.---. Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: the veil. Papers 754-760. Press.