Analysis Of Reading Lolita In Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran gives us a clear understanding that women around the world, particularly Iran, during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, have suffered through difficult times. Nafisi vividly shows that women in Iran have suffered through abuse and have lacked civil liberties and civil rights. Nafisi’s main argument in this memoir is that Iranian law and government makes it hard for women in Iran to live their life peacefully. Nafisi wanted to show the importance of women suffrage, and that not all women are privileged to have civil rights and civil liberties around the world. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a memoir about the life of the Azar Nafisi, who is an Iranian author and professor. Nafisi writes about her personal experiences in Iran

Nafisi’s class was an escape from reality for her students and herself. Whenever her students entered her room, Nafisi’s students would take off their veil and would be themselves. Without anyone telling them how to live their life. Nafisi’s students would forget every problem they had and get lost in the literature Nafisi and her students read. Nafisi and her students believed the veil should not be mandatory, and that the women in Iran should have a choice to wear the veil or not. Her students would be completely different people without the veil, even her students who were practicing Muslim took off their veil in Nafisi’s class. Under the veil, there would be colors. Nafisi and her students did not have to worry about the standards that were imposed on them. The class would talk however they liked without being restricted since it was in Nafisi’s class, the class brainstorms ideas of the books they read. Nafisi’s students would open up to her and really get to know each other better. As the students continued in the book club, Nafisi and her students started to rediscover that they were also living human beings. Reading Lolita in Tehran is beautifully written by Nafisi. The memoir gives an excellent insight into a culture that we as Americans do not get to see very often. Nafisi is smart, she is witty, the book is nicely written, the memoir is a deep read and there is a lot to process. Nafisi succeeded in grasping the attention of the reader by showing the reader interesting stories that Nafisi and her students underwent, and by also giving the reader her opinions, and thoughts during and before the revolution that was going on at the time. Nafisi failed at giving the reader a memoir of somebody who lived through the religious, extremist revolution that happened in 1979. The memoir would have been more interesting if Nafisi wrote about the insight about what was