The world is an amazing place with amazing people; people who sacrifice morals, rights and lives for the sake of power and prestige and greatness and renown– pursuing them as though they are their own lives running from them and they must capture them at all costs.
Laleh Khadivi 's The Age of Orphans (set in Iran) recounts the enduring story of these amazing people and those who suffer under their greatness hunt, focusing on the loss of identity and the effects of forced assimilation through the life and ventures of one fictional but legitimate Reza Pejman Khourdi. The main sufferers are the Kurds; indigenous peoples of the Middle East (primarily mountainous regions of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria) who remain one of the world’s largest ethnic …show more content…
Just as I am your father you will one day father and the land has fathered us, the lines of Kurd blood do not cross but flow together from their time to ours, through those bodies and down into the bodies of son and son and father and son and king and son and me and you. We are aligned in our duty and our duty is to those three (Khadivi 11)…
We are the children of Mount Cudi, where Noah 's ark rested after the flood, and our families are born of the animals and gardens of the survived, of God 's chosen... children born of mountain shaitans and golden angels (Khadivi 11-12)…
We survived the evil king Zahak, who fed on the brains of Kurds, until one by one we escaped to the mountains and that is how we came to live in the Zagros, to drink of the snow water and eat from cracks in the rock and grow into strong men, men of stone (Khadivi …show more content…
This festering desire makes him a monster as years pass. He becomes half-machine, half-man shorn of the boy he once was, certain of his place in the world. A tribal conscript in the shah 's army at fifteen, he moves with them to a Kurdish village in search of two Kurdish rebel commanders and there they all engage in terrifying brutality to terrorize the civilians and force the rebels out of hiding. Reza partakes in the most brutal acts to prove he is one of them, even to a fellow cadet– the perfect soldier representing them and them alone. He becomes the worst of them and is duly given recognition in the army captain 's letter to the shah. In his early adulthood he still reinforces this mentality, making a palimpsest and a liar of himself although it is tearing him
Laleh Khadivi 's The Age of Orphans (set in Iran) recounts the enduring story of these amazing people and those who suffer under their greatness hunt, focusing on the loss of identity and the effects of forced assimilation through the life and ventures of one fictional but legitimate Reza Pejman Khourdi. The main sufferers are the Kurds; indigenous peoples of the Middle East (primarily mountainous regions of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria) who remain one of the world’s largest ethnic …show more content…
Just as I am your father you will one day father and the land has fathered us, the lines of Kurd blood do not cross but flow together from their time to ours, through those bodies and down into the bodies of son and son and father and son and king and son and me and you. We are aligned in our duty and our duty is to those three (Khadivi 11)…
We are the children of Mount Cudi, where Noah 's ark rested after the flood, and our families are born of the animals and gardens of the survived, of God 's chosen... children born of mountain shaitans and golden angels (Khadivi 11-12)…
We survived the evil king Zahak, who fed on the brains of Kurds, until one by one we escaped to the mountains and that is how we came to live in the Zagros, to drink of the snow water and eat from cracks in the rock and grow into strong men, men of stone (Khadivi …show more content…
This festering desire makes him a monster as years pass. He becomes half-machine, half-man shorn of the boy he once was, certain of his place in the world. A tribal conscript in the shah 's army at fifteen, he moves with them to a Kurdish village in search of two Kurdish rebel commanders and there they all engage in terrifying brutality to terrorize the civilians and force the rebels out of hiding. Reza partakes in the most brutal acts to prove he is one of them, even to a fellow cadet– the perfect soldier representing them and them alone. He becomes the worst of them and is duly given recognition in the army captain 's letter to the shah. In his early adulthood he still reinforces this mentality, making a palimpsest and a liar of himself although it is tearing him