Marjane Trinh's Passage

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In Trinh’s passage, she criticized the inhuman and evil of the Iran regime by introducing the situation of how the prisoner was tortured by the judge. “The prisoner is made to sit, lay down and tie both hands upwall. A lot of scars on his back are from the cruel torture by being beaten with the rod or burned with an iron.” Even we could only feel the scene throw virtual media, it is still appalling me with the gloomy atmosphere and cruel behaviors. When the time we feel regret for the prisoner, it comes a penal which shows the end of his life. Trinh said “There are plenty of political dissent and violence happens during Marjane’s story and it shows that this country has very strict rules, control the citizens in everything, and gives no mercy

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