Pursuit Of Freedom

Freedom is something so simple, yet it is fought over and has to be demanded. For example America took African American’s freedom by enslaving them, and even when the slaves were freed they weren’t treated fairly from this statement, “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” (King 46). The Iranian government took away the freedoms of women by taking away their freedom of thought and display. Freedom has to be demanded in some instances. For example African Americans had to demand their freedom. For example, this statement shows that African Americans had to demand their freedom, “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” (King 46). From this quote the reader can understand that African Americans felt as if they were not free and that they …show more content…
This is shown in the text when the author states that, “The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What’s going on in the political prisons?” (Satrapi 6). This shows how the Iranian government is taking away the freedom of thought by brainwashing the women. They constantly punish the women for any minor thing, an example of this would be, “In short… everything was a pretext to arrest us” (Satrapi 4). The Iranian government would use the punishments to keep the women from thinking about anything that would be harmful to the government and in that way took away the freedom of thought from Iranian