Poem Biography Of An Armenian School Girl By Naomi Shihab Nye

Life is often hard for most of the people, particularly women in general as they are the ones who are still considered as a “weaker gender.” It is hard for those poor women in developing countries like Afghanistan, who cannot afford basic needs such as clothing, shelter and transportation. Women are titled as care-givers. Although, life consists of many challenges and obstacles that everybody goes through, the way one approaches such challenges and reacts to it varies from person to person. Also, overcoming such hardships of life strengthens one’s soul and it enables them to reveal their inner strength and true character. In Afghanistan, in order for a woman to survive, she must handle adverse situations both physically and emotionally.

As human beings, the need for power is as strong as a need for love or belonging. In The Naked Citadel by Susan Faludi the students grab this power from women or even other students. They are stripped down to nothing and the only way they see to regain this power is through dominating the opposite gender and even violently taking control of their own gender. Through Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi the male government and male figures in their lives oppress the women, and they ultimately find refuge in a literature class that break down these gender barriers. In both articles the constant search for true identity of a broken down human being forces, whether good

Our tyranny gives a result in female powerlessness, a woman’s silence, and the self-realization that we have come to

During the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, which takes place in Afghanistan, the rights of women change dramatically, and at times they had no rights at all. In the extremely male dominated society women are not allowed outside without being covered, whereas in the public society women are allowed out by themselves, and uncovered. The societies in which these changes take place are very different, however in both, women are dominated by men.

Women are important in our society. Every woman has her own job or duty in this modern society in which they would view women to be less than men. We can’t forget that women’s like is lot more complicated than a men’s life. A woman must take care of her own person like and if she is a mother. She must take care also about her children’s life. Marriage women have lots of worries and believe it or not, they carry out more stressful life than marriage men. Over all women in life generaliiy have and always will have more stressful life like then men. In the three reading black girl, Girls at war and the poem Refugee at camp relates to how woman are viwed in life and there struggle they deal with throughout the stores.

All around the world women are treated differently. People just have yet to realize the harsh opinions put upon us. These harsh opinions are especially seen in third world countries, like Afghanistan. In Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner the rights of women is a great theme shown throughout the book, illustrated by the characters views and Taliban society.

The fight for freedom is the fight that people of the past and the present are trying to win. A fight where the result are endless options. In the texts “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr, “Persepolis 2” by Marjane Satrapi, and “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi the demand for freedom is shown through the thoughts and worries of the people.

In this society, feminism is forbidden. Women do not get virtual rights, power, or freedom. What is more frightening than losing control of yourself in an unknown and oppressive government? The common theme throughout this tale is that women’s bodies are used as political

In the past there were certain expectations that were to be met by men and women, but as society evolved those expectations were challenged. Where women were once expected to take care of a household and just listen to the man, they were no longer under the controlling hand of men. In Leslie Bell’s “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”, she talks about how women explored their freedom without the instructions of a man. This relates to Azar Nafisi’s “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books” because the women in Nafisi’s reading group are doing what they want by creating a secret reading group without anyone’s approval. Both these stories relate to the destructive atmosphere

For as long as our society has existed, gender inequality has been a constant problem that plagues our lives. For a long time, women were heavily discriminated around the world, but generally, their situation has improved through time. Throughout the 19th century and most of the 20th century, western women were denied basic rights, including access to higher education, right to own properties, right to vote and run for office. (Ahmad) Yet, in many parts of the world today, not only are women not granted these rights, they are also heavily oppressed and abused. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, demonstrated this through two women, Laila and Mariam, and their life journey in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. To continue living,

One does not have to look further than the cover of the book as well as the title to comprehend what her work is about. Not only does her anger point toward the aging and menopausal female body, but also –as Adele Nel states – “to the unfair social and political dispensation as well as the patriarchal discourse of power that reduces women to decolonized objects”. Beside rage, her work as well as the cover photograph suggests emotions or qualities of feebleness, loss and mourning.

The women of this world face judgments every day based on their opinions, their bodies, their fashion, and their individual decisions. Marjane Satrapi wrote about her experiences with sexism in the book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. She was shamed and ridiculed for the choices she made, simply because of her gender and her femininity. It was very difficult for her to succeed, especially in a place that strictly prohibited women from being free and expressive individuals. Satrapi wanted to live someplace where she would feel safe and freed from all of the sexist oppressions she was facing, however “For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it” (Satrapi, 17). She was living in Iran, a nation filled with sexism and other unjust treatments; therefore her dream of gender equality could not have come true at the time. It is apparent that she was uncomfortable with the way that the rest of the world viewed her people “As soon as they learn our nationality, they go through everything, as though we are all just terrorists” (Satrapi, 165). She was not happy with her situation either “I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules… I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins” (Satrapi, 143). She did this distancing in an attempt to become a stronger and more independent woman to show everyone what great things she and other women and minorities could

Born and raised in Tehran, an Islamic-controlled country, Marjane faces hardships to conform herself to the society’s conservative ideals. She grows up through the turmoil and violence of her country, and witnesses the corrupt government’s epitomes. Throughout all of the hardships she endures while growing up in the war, she learns to overcome and defy the archetypes wanted by her government-strengthening her identity as an Iranian and as a women.

In reference to the subordinate position of women in American society, Malala Yousafzai once interestingly stated “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” This idea of women being “held back” and unable to exercise their individual identities in society is explored in Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers. Specifically, the woman poet examines the marginalization of women in society through the clear juxtaposition of Aunt Jennifer’s desire to be powerful like the fearless tigers, and the reality of her life as the subject of subjugation by her husband. In reading about the unfair oppression of Aunt Jennifer by a man, I became extremely emotional because I have a younger sister and involuntarily envisioned my own role in contributing to an American patriarchal society that devalues women and strips them of influence because of my own status as a male.

Both Reading Lolita in the Tehran by Azar Nafisi and The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg are works of nonfiction documenting the lives of women in the turbulent political environments in the Middle East. Being a woman, particularly an educated one, during the 80’s and 90’s in Iran meant a drastic limitation of personal freedoms and expressions through self image and art, a concept demonstrated through how Nafisi recalls her experience as a literature professor at the University of Tehran and how her students perceived the books she taught. Nordberg similarly expresses the sexual discrimination in the Middle East through her documentation of young girls as they search for a way to achieve personal freedoms by cross-dressing as the liberated sex in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Through her interviews of Kabul’s Bacha Posh population, Nordberg establishes for the Western reader how the maltreated young girls Afghanistan constantly dream of an elusive freedom granted to their brothers, fathers, and husbands, and how few establish the otherwise unattainable by presuming the role of a boy for their adolescence. Nafisi’s demonstration of similar sexual oppression is related as a memoir of her students where she utilizes their interpretations of 20th-century western literature to serve as a reflection of the lives of her student through sexual oppression and conflicting political and religious factions.