Opinion Response

        Being able to speak freely, is one of the human rights. In this article they talk about a girl in swat that is shot for telling facts,through a blog, about the Taliban taking over Swat. The main reason she created this blog is because she wanted to fight for another of her rights, the right of education. I think she was doing the right thing, people all around the world are afraid to speak, and that's why we are so corrupt, dishonest etc.... Because other people have allowed us to. If everybody around the globe wasn't afraid of standing up and saying, what you are doing is harming us all, the world would be Utopian. But we all know that will never happen.
       One thing I admire this little girl is that she is now a martyr just at the age of 13. I know it is sad that she was shot in the head, and I feel sorry for her, but in some way it is good, I don't want it to sound cynical, because she is now a martyr. People in her country will follow Malala's example. They will stand up and say you are wrong so that all the world now´s what the Taliban are doing wrong.

The Dowry reading response

I relate this chapter to the real life. The chapter starts showing a rebel girl that is soon going to get into big trouble. Then her parents decide to send her to Austria. My grandma had a maid that once decided to send her son to the US to look for a better life, just as in the book, also she promised to go and live with her in a few months. She never did, and that got the maid really sad, my grandma said to e she was never the same.

The Passport reading response

I relate this chapter with the problem in Cuba. In this chapter and in the book the people can´t get out of their country legally, so in both people escape to Turkey(in the book) or to Miami(in Cuba). In the book the uncle of the main character was sick and needed to go to England for surgery. Unfortunately his visa wasn't approved so he died. In Cuba this days the medicine is horrible, people that are very sick can die easily just because of the medicine, and in Cuba they aren't even allowed to leave in such case scenario.

The Sheep Reading Response

I related this chapter with all the holocaust movies, especially with Inglorious Bastards. In this movie they start killing the family of the main character and everybody escapes from the Nazis, by leaving their country. They all do this because the Nazis are killing them just for their beliefs. The same happened in this chapter, the  muslims killed people with different beliefs as theirs. So many people started leaving the country, and in the end they kill the uncle of the main character. And I also relate it with the holocaust movies because of the disagreement of beliefs.

Persepolis reading response

I relate this chapter it to the movie Even the Rain. In the movie people view the dead as martyrs, and take pictures of them, when it is forbidden, to show people what is happening. That is what happened in this chapter. The only thing I didn’t understand and can’t relate it to the book so, I will ask a question is; why did they laugh about the dead guy?

Through the chapter the characters talk about the war, they say it was forbidden, that they could die thanks to the rebellion, but that they would give their life for the country. Everyone that dies because they are fighting for their country is an automatic martyr. That’s what they do in the book. Another very important component in this chapter is the hope that all the characters have; they think one day they will be independent. In the book they also make reference of how the government is spending all their money in ridiculous celebrations. In the movie it is the same the government spends a lot of money in celebrations. The people are full of hope, like a character named Daniel leader of the revolution that almost lost his life. And in the movie they also talk about the government waiting all their money in unnecessary things like streets.

The veil, reading response

Why do they have to use a veil?

Why do the split in boys and girs?

Why is it so bad that her mother is on the cover of a magazine?

Why having a cadillac makes her want to be a prophet?

Why did her parents act normal in front of the teacher when she told them she wanted to be a prophet and then acted normal?