reason‚ emotion and faith by this time. The director showed the strain between the U.S and Iran by using memory‚ because the movie itself is based on a true incident which happened in 1979. In 1979‚ the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were taken hostage. However‚ six managed to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA was eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options‚ ex-filtration expert
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Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003)‚ as the title suggests‚ is a memoir‚ which portrays the individual experiences and personal lives of the authoress and her students in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution 1979. In addition‚ as the subtitle suggests‚ Nafisi’s work constructs this personal memoir using various fictional texts such as Lolita‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ and Daisy Miller. Through the act of reading the above mentioned fictional texts‚ the individuals
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camera angles‚ and music are two elements of film that can evoke strong emotional responses called textual features of film. Many of these features are prevalent in the film Not Without My Daughter. This film is set in the 1980’s during the Iranian Revolution. The Mahmoody family consists of husband and wife‚ Moody and Betty‚ and their daughter‚ Mahtob‚ who decide to visit Iran. In Iran‚ Moody decides to keep his family but Betty does not want to stay. Betty tries to escape multiple times but Moody
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Before any revolution‚ there is a period of questioning. People begin to evaluate the legitimacy of the authority that the government has forced upon them before eventually deciding to revolt. During this time of questioning‚ people become increasingly thoughtful and observant of the world around them. They begin to question the institutions that govern them. Revolutions do not affect everyone‚ however‚ especially in Mahbod Seraji’s novel Rooftops of Tehran. In this novel divisiveness directly affects
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The Complete Persepolis‚ is highly important for one to get an awareness of the settings in which the protagonist‚ Marjane ‘Marji’ Satrapi lives during this middle-eastern conflict of the 1979 Iranian revolution. The Complete Persepolis shows the major influences that the Shah’s government had on Iranians from September 16th‚ 1941 until February 11th‚ 1979‚ by way of religious restrictions on women. Marjane’s feminism leads to in-between identities of east/west‚ black/white‚ male/female‚ equality/inequality
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Persepolis & Not Without My Daughter The Iranian revolution of 1979 refers to the overthrowing of the last king of Iran. It was an Islamic revolution which attempted to replace Mohammed Reza Shah‚ with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini‚ the leader of the revolution. Strong opposition against the Shah showed that the people wanted a religious ruler rather than someone they saw as an American puppet. Many Iranian people would think that the Shah was a ‘capitalist pig’ who
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childhood in the backdrop of the Islamic Revolution in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Young Marji develops her own sense of individuality‚ nurtured through her family’s modern lenses and lifestyle. Her modern family and their individuality sets them apart from the religious conformity that was demanded by the Shah at this point in Iranian history and culture. It is very important to note that the conflict between individuality and conformity during the revolution was cause enough for persecution. As
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is an in depth look at Marjane’s child hood in Iran. Throughout the novel Marji faces many public issues which directly relate to her personal troubles. While Marji was growing up she witnessed the relinquishment of the Shah’s regime‚ The Islamic revolution and the Iraq v Iran war. Her novel covers an eight year span‚ from the ages six to fourteen. Even though the novel begins when Marji is only six years old she was more politically aware then most modern day adolescents. Marji was extremely young
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growing up in Iran. Growing up‚ she is surrounded by her loving family and relatives‚ and like most teenagers anywhere‚ she has a penchant for pop music‚ fashion‚ and rebelliousness. Soon‚ Marjane finds herself confronting the injustices of the Iranian regime. She sees her uncle die after his window-washer-turned-government employee refused to give him permission to seek medical treatment abroad. Women like her had to shroud their faces from men. Alcohol and other Western decadence have been
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living in a revolution‚ the loss of her innocence and religion in Iran. First and foremost‚ this illustration represents the revolution‚ in Persepolis this is shown when the Iranians break the chains that their government had put on them. These people are free‚ but in the picture the shackles still remain which can also be seen as a remnant of the revolt. Which can be interpreted as the loss of people and stricter laws like those enforced in Persepolis. In the first revolution‚ Iranians wanted the
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