This is it. The last questions you'll ever have to respond to in EQ2. So try to enjoy them and maybe answer all four of them just for fun! (kidding, just answer TWO as usual...)
Q1: Why does Marjane betray her youthful ideals in early on in these chapters and earn her grandmother's scorn? What may have caused her to change in this way and act so against her values and character? (and why is she so initially pleased with herself?)
Q2: Related to the above, how does she rediscover her revolutionary spirit and youthful rebellion? Why are the stakes even higher now for disobedience than they were when she was a child?
Q3: Surprisingly, in a traditional society focused on a very narrow definition of women's roles, her mother is strongly against her marriage to Reza. Why does her mother object so strongly, and why also does her grandmother approve her later desire for a divorce? How does this show us a different side of Persian culture?
Q4: What is the final straw that sends her packing to leave for Europe once more? After her experiences in Vienna, what would make her think that leaving her family behind would be the lesser of two evils? (consider, too, that this time she never returns home...as of 2023, she has never returned to live in Iran, and makes her home in Paris).
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