Kayley Nguyen

Dr. Cobos

ELA

October 27, 2017

What led to Marjane's grandmother yelling at her? Was the yelling justified? Why or why not?

I chose this topic because I thought that there was a reasonable explanation behind why her grandma was yelling at her. From page 285-287 and 291 explains what happened and why her grandma acted the way she did. The story starts when Marjane wanting to get a makeover. After her makeover she saw the guardians and freaked out, since makeup was not really allowed her first thing was to completely blame it on the man that was right next to her as a distraction. On page 285 quotes “I had to distract them. I had to go see them before they saw me…. There’s a guy who said something indecent to me.” To me the first thing I thought was why would you do this, out of anything you could have done you chose this? Another thing is when looking at some of the pictures after the man was arrested she looked as if she knew she was guilty. I think that her grandma had the right to yell at Marjane because she told her grandma the story in a way that was not serious. Also I think what also made it worse was that Iran is already strict and she knows it, to put someone through that knowing the consequences are bad is just not acceptable. I also think that Marjane’s partner was a bad influence on her because like I was saying before on page 286-287 she looked as if she felt bad until she told him, he started laughing and then she became ok with what she did. The grandma did bring up a good point on page 291 when she brought up how her grandfather was arrested and locked up. “Have you forgotten who your grandfather was? He spent years of his life in prison for having defending some innocents”. I don’t think that Marjane understood how important that was to her grandma and to see your grandchild do something so awful is honestly heartbreaking.