What is it?
What is a thought balloon?
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Who were the Shavak?
The secret police of the shah's regime
What was the torture?
"I wanted to know what it felt to be in a cell filled of water" (p.25)
What is the Cultural Revolution?
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Who was the prince?
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Marjane playing with Monopoly
What is the Irony?
What is the Rex Cinema Fire?
Cinema burning down killing 400 people
What was the Cultural Revolution?
"We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends" (p.4)
What is the religious critic?
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Who took everything?
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What is the allusion?
Similarities between God and Marx
Who went to jail?
Communists Journalists and Revolutionaries against the Shah or Conservatives
What is the internal conflict?
"I really don't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde." (p.6)
How is Revolution seen?
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What is Marx´s ideology?
Communism against Capitalism
What is a metaphor?
The Shah being called as a demon
What is Black Friday?
Revolutionary communists being murdered by the same communists in a neighbourhood
Why was Mahri rejected?
"In this country you must stay within your own social class" (p.37)
How is the opression of women shown?
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What is Marx´s belief?
What is the antithesis?
Conservatives as black and Communists as white
Who is the Shah?
Spends a big amount of money for unnecessary things and tells false promises
What is the rule of politics?
"Politics and sentiments don't mix"(p.43)
What is the reason?
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How is the difference of social class percieved/seen in the family?
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