Marjan is a young Iranian girl, she was not the same as most girls who lived in Iran. She lived in the time that the country was in the war which Iraq invaded to Iran. People had a horrible situation; everybody helped or did something for their country to win the war. Unfortunately, Marjan’s family did not want to involve themselves to horrible feeling that most Iranian had. Majority of young girls did not think about wearing a tight jean (Satrapi 133) or still Cigarette to smoke on that days. On that time some family escape from Iran’s condition, and moved to other courtiers. It was rear that a girl from family escapes to other country. For this reason, she was not a normal girl; she was rebellious because of that her mom and dad decided to send her out of country. I believe, Marjan’s parents got tired of her nasty behavior, and they wanted to kick her out. Most of my classmates are agreeing that marjan was a rebelious girl; she was so young to do such a negative manners. For example, she was disrespectful to her teacher, “How dare you lie to us like that” (144). In this point, if her teacher was lying to marjan at the class, she should answer her teacher more politely. On the other hand, Marjan wanted to have a freedom out of her home town or her country. For Marjan’s family and Marjan the meaning of freedom has been simplify to not have a veil or wear a tight jean, for many people in Iran freedom is more meaningful than that. Many ladies in Iran or other countries (mostly Islamic country) think you can have freedom more, if you have veil or not to show your body in a tight jean. They believe freedom is in your mind, and present yourself from your intelligence not your body. Therefore, Marjan was not the same as majority of Iranian girls in Iran, and her family.
This is an excellent post and I'm so glad that you were able to finish our conversation here in the blog. I'm sorry we were interrupted in class because I was very interested in what you were saying. Your point about freedom is a good one and very interesting. I hope you will write more about this topic on your paper? I think you make an interesting and important argument on behalf of women's freedom. I would encourage you to center your paper on this very important topic. You could use either Reader Response theory, if you want to incorporate you personal experience or you could use Feminist theory to focus you paper. Thanks for being such an important member of our community. You are giving many of us an opportunity to learn so much!
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