HOOK background info on Faulkner “It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past” (Faulkner). In writing, Faulkner believes, an author has the responsibility to relate the text back to readers and make them truly feel and relate to what is happening in the story. Authors not only have to provide a text that intrigues the audience, but they need to keep the audience's attention and remind them how they can apply the concepts being used in the book, in their everyday lives. In Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Nafisi’s memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, both authors use their
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Throughout the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot depicts different courageous occasions that many of the Lacks family members underwent. The youngest daughter of Henrietta Lacks, Deborah, shows her courage through her perseverance. Henrietta died when Deborah was 2 years old, so she did not have any memories of her mother that she could vividly recall. This made it very difficult for Deborah because no one ever talked about her mother, so she had no way in getting to know more about her. She took it upon herself to begin the process of discovering more about her mother and in doing so, she became sick. During her investigation, Deborah slowly began to search for more and more information on the “HeLa” cells that were taken from her mother. The information that she discovered caused her extreme stress, which resulted in hives etc.”’But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get a dime. I used to get so mad …show more content…
She began teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, in November during a time where many books had been banned based off of the morals they portrayed. During this time, the opinions of the regime endorse most of her students attitudes and acceptance towards everything they’re involved in, including literature. The regime forces their opinion on having morals and only accepting things based off of Islam, everything else should be banned. As Nafisi begins to teach The Great Gatsby her students immediately show their biased opinions, which results in them putting The Great Gatsby on trial. The prosecutors are the portion of the class that are against what they believe F. Scott Fitzgerald message in the novel is. They think Fitzgerald is solely trying to send the message of adultery being normal and acceptable, which goes directly against what the regime believes, “‘Islam is the only religion in the world that has assigned a special sacred role to literature in guiding man to a godly life,’” (Nafisi 124). Basing their opinions on the idea that all texts should help a man live a “godly life” these students are against Fitzgerald because he writes about how a man cheats on his wife and other sexual occurrences. However, the defense are the group of students on Nafisi’s side, who believe that The Great Gatsby has a stronger more powerful message. “I
Throughout the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot depicts different courageous occasions that many of the Lacks family members underwent. The youngest daughter of Henrietta Lacks, Deborah, shows her courage through her perseverance. Henrietta died when Deborah was 2 years old, so she did not have any memories of her mother that she could vividly recall. This made it very difficult for Deborah because no one ever talked about her mother, so she had no way in getting to know more about her. She took it upon herself to begin the process of discovering more about her mother and in doing so, she became sick. During her investigation, Deborah slowly began to search for more and more information on the “HeLa” cells that were taken from her mother. The information that she discovered caused her extreme stress, which resulted in hives etc.”’But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get a dime. I used to get so mad …show more content…
She began teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, in November during a time where many books had been banned based off of the morals they portrayed. During this time, the opinions of the regime endorse most of her students attitudes and acceptance towards everything they’re involved in, including literature. The regime forces their opinion on having morals and only accepting things based off of Islam, everything else should be banned. As Nafisi begins to teach The Great Gatsby her students immediately show their biased opinions, which results in them putting The Great Gatsby on trial. The prosecutors are the portion of the class that are against what they believe F. Scott Fitzgerald message in the novel is. They think Fitzgerald is solely trying to send the message of adultery being normal and acceptable, which goes directly against what the regime believes, “‘Islam is the only religion in the world that has assigned a special sacred role to literature in guiding man to a godly life,’” (Nafisi 124). Basing their opinions on the idea that all texts should help a man live a “godly life” these students are against Fitzgerald because he writes about how a man cheats on his wife and other sexual occurrences. However, the defense are the group of students on Nafisi’s side, who believe that The Great Gatsby has a stronger more powerful message. “I