Gatsby vs. Tehran
Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran is an amazing book that elicits much thought and even more controversy. The book is about the life of an English teacher during the revolution of Iran. Nafisi was born in Iran but then left for America. She later returned to teach at Tehran University. The place she once called home is sadly and horrifically changed. The theme is anti-American. The job she has so eagerly accepted and come to love has tossed her aside all because she refuses to wear a veil. Even the expression of oneself through forms of art is being censored. Some books are even being banned. Nafisi thinks that this is wrong and that books teach people valuable lessons about life. Not wanting to give up so easily she begins teaching a group of students in secret. She allows them to come to her home to go over some Western authors that she has selected and told them to read in their spare time. Some of those authors include: Jane Austin, F. Scott......
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