Emotional Response

        I was very taken aback when I read the chapter The Trip in the memoir. It was the first time in the memoir where Marjane Satrapi used a curse word. I wasn't expecting it at all! In the book she wrote, "They insulted me. They said that woman like me should be pushed up against a wall and fucked and then thrown in the garbage can" (74). I am able to handle mature language well however I just was not expecting it at all. I kept forgetting that it wasn't young Marjane Satrapi telling the story but older Marjane Satrapi telling the story later on in life. That quote is what her mother said after he car broke down and two fundamentalist men said that to her. This was one of the few point in the story when I actually felt offended. Me being a woman I don't think it's fair for them to wear the veil. I was thinking about how I would feel if I was forced to wear one. I would feel so controlled and no longer an individual. I was able to really connect with Marjane Satrapi's moms emotions. In the book Marjane Satrapi wrote, "That incident made my mother sick for several days" (74). I would have been very disturbed for multiple days as well if someone said that to me. I may even have been scarred for life. This was the point in the story where I really became interested in reading more and finding out the outcome of the Revolution.
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