Why do you think Marjane chose to leave Iran again to go and live in France? Use specific examples from the book to support your claims. Would you have made the same decision? Why or why not?
I think Marjane chose to leave Iran again and go live in France because she knew she wasn't going to have what she wanted in Iran. She constantly fought the school boards for something as simple as a few strands of hair sticking out of her hijab. She had a husband whom she didn't truly love anymore. There was a war going on. All of these things fought against her hopes and dreams.
An example of a reason why Marjane wanted to leave is the lack of women's rights in Iran. At one point in the book she said "If a guy kills ten woman in the presence of fifteen others, no one can condemn him because in a murder case, we woman, we can't even testify! He's also the one who has the right to divorce and even if he gives it to you, he nonetheless has custody of the children! I heard a religious man justify this law by saying that man was the grain and woman, the earth in which the grain grew, therefore the child naturally belonged to his father! Do you realize?? I can't take it anymore. I want to leave this country!" (337).
I would have made the same decision too. I couldn't live in a country where my basic rights were revoked. Go, Marjane!
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