Dual Narration in Persepolis (question 1)

In certain instances where older Marji narrates events that are occurring in the story, her own view of the situation is different from that of her view at the time it is taking place. One example is in the chapter "The Cigarette" (111-117). The older Marji talks about how kids continued to try to look cool despite the rules, and later about serious issues, such as how the war had caused so many unnecessary deaths. The younger Marji, on the other hand, is one of the kids trying to be cool, and at the end of the chapter she smokes a cigarette as an act of rebellion and a statement that she no longer considers herself a child. The two narrators, young Marji and older Marji, seem to contradict, but are actually saying the same things--they merely have different points of view. Older Marji can look in retrospect at the situation, hence why she talks about how teenagers were risking arrest, and how the war caused so many unnecessary deaths. Younger Marji, on the other hand, is still experiencing the events and does not fully understand yet all of what the war will cause. She breaks the rules because other people do it and because she's avoided getting punished in any extreme way so far, and she wants to be an adult like many twelve year olds do. However, both perspectives, while conflicting in interests, still give the reader an insight into the situation caused by the social changes and by the war.