“You can forgive but you should never forget.” - Marjane Satrapi. A memoir is a collection of unique memories that can never be forgotten. They tell the story of a person's life and capture experiences that can be wonderful or downright terrifying. In Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and illustrates the devastating effects it had on her life. Similarly, Elie Wiesel recounts his terrifying journey as a Jew who endured the unimaginable cruelty of the Holocaust in his novel: The Night. Although these memoirs are told in different time periods and places, the authors are both marginalized due to their race and must battle traditional group barriers with their community. Through ethics and marginalization, Satrapi and Wiesel demonstrate that community can be created during times of political and cultural struggle, ultimately illustrating that humans overcome traditional group barriers by including themselves with members of other marginalized groups. Marginalization occurs when communities are prevented from participating fully in social life. the economic, social and political life of their society, and is one of the main causes of the difficult experiences that narrators must overcome. In Persepolis, the veil plays an important role in Marji's life because it becomes a requirement for Iranian women to wear in public, marginalizing them from other women. Marji and her friends are unsure about the veil and don't understand why they have to wear it (Satrapi 3). He says, “We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends” (Satrapi 4). The veil is a symbol of uniformity because women cannot be distinguished from each other. Erase their individuality and... in the center of the paper... marginalized. While Satrapi was marginalized by the veil and Wiesel by the gold star, both faced a political and cultural struggle as innocent children, which creates community among readers. Both authors were able to bring a new window into our world through their memoirs, in which we learn that "one can forgive but one should never forget." Works CitedMark M. Anderson. “The Child Victim as Witness to the Holocaust: An American Story?” Jewish Social Studies 14.1 (2007): 1-22. MUSE project. Network. March 31, 2014. .Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Paris: Pantheon Books, 2003. Print.Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.Worth, Jennifer. “Unveiling: Persepolis as Embodied Performance.” Theater Research International, 32 (2007): 143-160. Cambridge journals online. Network. March 31 2014. .