Azar Nafisi

Humans as a whole live together on one planet. A large area of land that is meant to unify the entire species backfired and resulted in a large area of land that is divided into many different groups, segregated and not treated equally. Everyone dreams of living in a world full of peace and unity, when really, they are avoiding the dark reality of hatred and discord. A hatred so powerful, it can result in humans taking over other humans. They shame and debase them, taking their own initiative…

make up such a large percent of their population. Azar Nafisi in her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, displays the unfair treatment of women in Iran and argues that they need to change. She also discusses education and literature’s importance throughout the novel, so that people will view it with more importance because literature is not viewed with equality. Some literature is viewed with more importance than others. Throughout the memoir, Nafisi displays how the government targeted unfairness…

others, true love and happiness. The American dream of Azar Nafisi’s, the author of "Vagabond Nation," was to become an American citizen. She was instantly intrigued by the concept of it when she first heard about it as a child, and worked hard to…

In both, Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Love 2.0” and Azar Nafisi’s, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” there is an overlap on the themes of small moments and identity. In “Love 2.0,” Barbara Fredrickson introduces scientific analyzes of the brain’s response to positive connections and presents an ongoing juxtaposition from both ends of love and strongly states how love is “forever renewable” (108). In “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Azar Nafisi illustrates her class meeting with her girls, who are driven to…

written by Azar Nafisi explains about a woman’s journey on becoming a U.S. citizen and also explains about what it means to become an American citizen. She, Nafisi was at first nervous and somewhat frightened when she arrived at the Immigration and Naturalization office in Fairfax, Virginia. She explains that the office seemed very imposing and had a lack of beauty. She then began to start her well awaited interview to review her citizenship which she explained went very well. Nafisi was told…

The idea of freedom can be seen throughout collection 2 in our text book. The short story The Censors by David Unger has a theme of freedom. The idea of freedom can be seen in the graphic novel Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi. The graphic novel The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi also talks about freedom. The short story The Censors by David Unger shows a theme of freedom. Freedom is shown when Juan was trying to save Mariana. The importance of this is when Juan said something…

of our textbook. Freedom is shown in the Speech I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom can also be shown in stories like The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela.One last piece of freedom that is shown is in the memoir is in Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. The idea of Freedom can be seen in Dr.King's speech I Have a Dream when he talk to the whole world about his vision when African American . Evidence is shown when he talks about what kind of freedom black people have and compare it with a…

In her work “Selections from: Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Nafisi Azar presents, from the experience she had with her students in the Islamic Republic of Iran, some of the strong social constraints that had even been institutionalized and became part and parcel of learning institution like The University of Allameh Tabatabai.…

then erased in a quick swipe" (Nafisi 167). This quote shows that all women in Iran are controlled by the strict rules that prevents them from certain restrictions and rules. " You remember those days the regime went crazy attacking the Mujahideen" (Nafisi 191). This quote describes all the hardships all Iranian women had to face and how hard it was for all women to live a happy life. "The pride and prejudice does worry the festive air of the ball" (Nafisi 267). The author…

seen throughout Collection Two of our textbooks. Freedom can be seen in Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream “speech when he talks about the bad check being cashed and his dream. In the memoir “Reading in Lolita in Tehran from Persepolis 2” by Azar Nafisi, freedom is the main point in the story and can be seen when she describes how they must dress and what life was like during her mother’s generation. Lastly, freedom, or the lack of it, is the main topic of Luisa Valenzuela’s short story “The…