Reading Lolita in Tehran 4

Wow, my book is finally starting to get more interesting! Instead of just talking about the way she lived her life through books, she started commenting on the outside world and what was going on in society. She was a professor at the university in Tehran while political groups were the main focus. There were arguments and fights every day, depending on what group you belonged to. It was very hard for her to go through these things, because as the groups became more violent and threatening, rules changed for women such as that it was mandatory to wear headresses. People would even "cancel" classes to protest something that their group did not believe in (224). Life at the university was very chaotic, and eventually she did not agree with some of the rules being put in place that she just stopped coming to teach so they expelled her.

"After each revolution several thousands of the corrupt elements are executed in public and burned and the story is over. They are not allowed to publish newspapers" (235). This time that she was describing and living in seems unreal to me. She goes through her day as if it is normal; people running around with guns ready to release bullets at the sound of disagreement. This situation right now is somewhat like America's involvement right now in Iraq. I don't know very much about our involvement in Iraq except for the fact that the Iraqis do not like our being there. That was the same with the Iranians in the time of America's involvement there. I really enjoy reading this right now because she is describing all of the passionate people about their political group and what they did about their dislikes on what was happening in society.