Marjane's Punk Phase

While Marjane is in Vienna, she goes through her "punk phase." Personally, I believe that she never really liked punk music and that she just needed people to accept her. Both, in the film and the book, the audience can tell Marjane is not comfortable with her new punk friends, but she slowly becomes more like them. However, this was not the real her because later in the book, she regrets being punk and becomes more like her new boyfriend's friends. Once again, she meets another boy she likes and pretends to be interested in the same things he is, but in reality she really doesn't care and like those things. She goes through this "punk phase" simply because she is trying to fit in. She is trying to fill up this love that is missing from her family and friends back from in Iran.