Marjane Satrapi’s world of black and white in Persepolis gives the readers an idea about its seriousness from the very first page. The seriousness and the emotion attached with each chapter are different. As soon as one starts with “The Sheep”, the heading makes it look very humorous. One cannot expect seriousness from a chapter which has the image of two sheep in the heading, and when one reaches the end of this chapter, it seems to be one of the most emotional chapters in the entire book.

The first page (Page-62, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis) of the chapter shows young Marjane, her father and her uncle Anoosh in the single frame. The background is dark, a lamp and a painting can be seen around the small space and a small table with a cup of tea and a cigarette emphasizes on the very idea of a conversation taking place. There is a stool on which her father is sitting and a sofa which looks more luxurious than the tool and on which her uncle is sitting, it gives an image that he is their guest. The young girl is seen sitting on her uncle’s lap, it clearly shows how close she is and how strong a bond she is sharing with the man, not just because she is sitting on his lap but she is doing so in the presence of her father. The chapter’s first scene starts with an idea of showing seriousness, as the reader moves on to the different blocks in the same page they could see how it ends by shifting the whole attention to her crying  and the two men standing in the background are zoomed out. It shows how Marjane concentrates on the emotions of a person.

The next page of the chapter (Page-63, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis) basically speaks about the personal life of the young girl which gets affected due to the situation of turmoil in her country. In this page not even once is the young girl smiling, as soon as she enters the frame walking there is a kind of unhappiness on her face. The second frame shows how one of the two friends of her tell about the other leaving the country and the young girl has an expression which shows the sign of thinking as well as the sign of bewilderment. In the third frame she tries to put forward a point of hers which she thinks can restrain her friend from going, but she remains unsuccessful. There is a kind of pattern shown in these blocks; the first row has three blocks or frames, which shows the passing of time in a fast and quick manner. The second row has only two frames; it shows how slowly the time is passing in the mind of the young girl, her conversation with her friend is given more space because in her mind that is one of the most precious thing as it also tells us that she likes him. The third row again has quick passing of time but the last frame is bigger as compared to the other two, as it is the end of her small tale of love and leads to an emotional breakdown. The last frame shows her in black, almost everything black and a point is made and an emotion is shown, an emotion, a feeling of separation.

The second last page of the chapter (Page-70, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis) is one of the most emotional pages of the chapter. The opening frame is only one, it shows the importance of the matter. It starts with her writing “that was my last meeting with my beloved Anoosh”, it gives goosebumps when this part is revealed. The news is also brought to us in the medium of a newspaper and not by any person as the newspaper is a trusted source and this kind of news is sensational to be on the front page. The usage of newspaper as a source of this news is to lay emphasis on the seriousness of the matter. The two bread swans gifted by him to her is kept over the newspaper as it shows how important he and his gift was to her. The second row shows her encounter with her god for the first time. The god, who is a white coloured creature, a sign of hope in the whole of the darkness means nothing to her now and she asks him not to come to her again. The page ends with her shouting in the last frame all alone. A sign of emotional outburst and also shows that one has to stand alone in the hardest of the situations and face it all by themselves as no god or any other figure will do actual help. The seriousness and the emotional part of the incidents are portrayed very carefully by Marjane in this chapter- The Sheep.