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The Stoning of Soraya M
Carolina Jimenez, RN
Miami Dade College
Culture in Nursing Practice
Dr. Deborah Robinson

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The Stoning of Soraya is an American film from 2008 based on the adaptation from French Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam 's 1990 book, which is based on a true story. The story is about a woman named Soraya; she is falsely accused of being unfaithful by her own husband, who has been trying to divorce her in order to marry a 14-year-old girl. Soraya is condemned to be stoned to death by her whole village. The French journalist comes to the village the day after the stoning; he hears the story told by her aunt and promises her to inform the world about what had …show more content…

The film is based on an incredible true story about a woman named Soraya who is falsely accused by her husband, Ali, of adultery and is sentenced to be stoned until death, only because her cruel husband wants to get rid of her so he can marry a 14-year-old girl.
In the last scene, before she is stoned, Soraya questions the entire village for doing this to her, instead of pleading innocence. She is not a docile woman controlled by men, and ironically, in the end her murder exposes their hypocrisy to the world. Soraya is buried up to her waist in a hole dug for the occasion; she is attacked with rocks and profanity by the male villagers, including her father, husband and two sons, until she dies. The women of the village are watching and can do nothing about this. It was a great impact for me to see the scene where Ali examines his wife’s blood-drenched body to make sure she is dead and discovers signs of life in a rolled-up eye. The stoning is promptly resumed until Soraya finally dies.
A journalist drives through Soraya’s primitive Iranian village, and he is approached by Soraya’s aunt, Zahra. The writer records their conversation with his tape recorder as the aunt resolutely tells him the tale of the bloody death of her niece. Soraya’s aunt knows that her niece would have wanted her

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