Cairo: My City, Reading Lolita In Tehran, And Persepolis

Rebellion is an action of resisting authority or control that has been established by a government. Three authors have given tension throughout the story they tell. Reading three stories’, “Cairo: my city, my revolution”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and “Persepolis 2” the authors will be giving their perspectives of rebellion, how rebellion is being described, and the effects of rebellion on not only them but others. No one likes to be controlled in any way but for many people it is difficult because it is enforced by law, so many people have had to act with rebelliousness. In the story, “Cairo: my city, my revolution” Ahdaf Soueif is guiding through her city of Cairo and traces the path of the revolution that’s redrawing its future, she charts a story of the revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian. According to the story, Soueif states, “… a mass of people, all in motion, but all in place” (pg 73). The author says that a crowd of people are in a single place, but to do what? According to the story, Soueif states, “…our project was to save and to reclaim our country. We stood

According to “Persepolis 2”, Satrapi states, “Are they going to whip me?” (pg 84). Men like to go for the weak, one who has no power. Governments established these hurtful laws, if women don’t go by what he authority’s say you automatically get punished. When women don’t fallow orders, or do whatever they want the authorities consider it as an act of rebellion. According to the article, Satrapi states, “Showing your hair or putting on makeup logically became acts of rebellion” (pg 84). As said within these story’s women have been taken as useless in which the government believe they can take control of them, but knowing women can in fact rebel against authorities to overrule them. No one likes to be controlled by anyone