Imagine if your government was so corrupt that you would put others in danger just to prove your point. If it was so corrupt that you would even put yourself in danger to stand up against it. In the Name of God by Paula Jolin is a novel that deals with these imaginations. Nadia is seventeen years old, smart, and religious girl who decides to rebel against the government seeing what is going on around her. She is only a teenager, but acts as if she is an adult. Nadia’s patience against the government diminishes when her cousin, Fowzi gets arrested for speaking out about how the government is corrupt. Nadia wants to set off a suicide bomb to prove her point that no Muslim should be abused by the Americans, but she realizes it was wrong so she decides not to set it off. In overall, Nadia is more justified than unjustified in rebelling against the government for several reasons.
Firstly, Nadia is not so justified in rebelling against the government because she thought her family will be happier. For example, while in the confusion of whether she should set off the bomb or not, Nadia imagines about the future in her bedroom. She imagines news channels like CNN and Aljazeera going insane over her setting off a suicide bomb to make a point. She also imagines her family becoming happier when she is gone. Nadia says, “I pictured Mama opening the front door and finding a green check with lots of zeroes under the welcome mat. Or to keep it anonymous, a thick brown envelope stuffed with cash” (Jolin 186). The fact that she only cares about her family illustrates why she is not so justified in rebelling against the government because she is selfishly thinking better for her family while others lose their lives.
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...thing worse than speaking their mind" (Jolin 202). Nadia's response proves that she is justified for rebelling against the government because not only did she rebelled against the government for her cousin, but also for all the innocent Muslims that did not deserve to be in captivity for speaking freely.
In conclusion, Nadia is more right than wrong in rebelling against the government for a few reasons. She is not so right in rebelling against the government because she is being selfish. She is right otherwise in rebelling against the government because someone has to do something in order to keep the evils in check, Walid convinced her to, and she rebels against the government for the innocents. Nadia put hers and a lot of other people's lives at risk to prove that innocent Muslims should not be treated like criminals for speaking the truth and for speaking freely.
In a nation brimming with discrimination, violence and fear, a multitudinous number of hearts will become malevolent and unemotional. However, people will rebel. In the eye-opening novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini, the country of Afghanistan is exposed to possess cruel, treacherous and sexist law and people. The women are classified as something lower than human, and men have the jurisdiction over the women. At the same time, the most horrible treatment can bring out some of the best traits in victims, such as consideration, boldness, and protectiveness. Although, living in an inconsiderate world, women can still carry aspiration and benevolence. Mariam and Laila (the main characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns) are able to retain their consideration, boldness and protectiveness, as sufferers in their atrocious world.
During this process a lot happened. For example, many wanted to assassinate her for disobeying them and going against their rules. The thing was Malala didn’t care because she knew in her heart that she was doing the right thing when speaking. In the article it states, “ there are hundreds of Human Rights activist and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals of Education, peace and equality. Thousands of people have been killed by terrorists and millions have been injured. I am just one of them.” (Paragraph 3) She was a brave little girl for speaking up because not many had the guts to do what she did. Also, malala knew she was putting her life at risk ,but she still did what she did because now it’s not only about her, but others as
The Taliban regime was infamous for its treatment of women. Windows had to be painted black so men could not look into the windows of houses and see the women inside. Women were unable to work. Under Taliban rule, women were not allowed to be educated, unable to go to school or university. 9 out of 10 Afghan women are illiterate. Unfortunately, Meena was unwillingly cast into the role of teacher to young girls who wanted to learn how to read. Because she had been to university, girls flocked to...
In America, Miley Cyrus is paid millions for wearing nearly no clothing, however women under the control of the Taliban have been persecuted for showing nothing but their ankles. However in the book, The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah did not have the privileges that women in America have. After the Taliban took over, Farah was in fear every time she had to leave the house. The women in Afghanistan are not granted the basics rights of speech, marriage and education that American women have, which causes many women to be punished under the rule of extreme groups for doing the most miniscule of things. Remember to connect all reason to the thesis statement!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Firstly, the characters in the novel display bravery as they protect one another from physical harm. This can be seen in patterns between generations in families. Early on the reader learns that Amir’s grandfather protects Ali by, “[adopting] him into his own household, and [telling] the other students to tutor him” (26). Since Ali’s parents were killed and he is a Hazaras he would have most certainly been discriminated against at an orphanage. Ali is Hassan’s father. The reader learns near the end that he is not his biological father but he is the man who raised him. Hassan defends Amir from being beaten by Assef who has a reputation in Kabul of being a psychopath. When Assef threatens them Hassan does not hesitate to respond saying, “You are right, Agha. But perhaps you didn’t notice that I’m the one holding the slingshot. If you make a move, they’ll have to change your nickname from Assef ‘the Ear Eater’ to ‘One-Eyed Assef,’ because I have this rock pointed at your left eye” (45-46). Later on Amir stands up for Sohrab, Hassan’s son, as Hassan stood up for Amir countless times before. He demands to Assef, "All I want is the boy" (298), to take Sohrab to a safe place where he would no longer be sexually abused. In return, Sohrab is bold and prevents Amir from being slain. He points the slingshot at Assef’s face, "‘No more, Agha. Please,’ he [says], his voice husky and trembling. ‘Stop hurting him’" (304). At this point Assef is a grown man while Sohrab is only a boy. It would take plenty of courage to protect this man he did not even know. Sohrab’s action fulfills the idea foreshadowed earlier of "one-eyed Assef" as Sohrab shoots a metal ball in Assef’s eye. All these characters guarded the physical well-being of individuals that were important to them by demonstrating bravery.
and around the world we witness humans like Luther who believe in and fight for what is right; although, we also witness the shallow bystanders that Luther speaks of. In Cleveland a young 12 year old black boy, Tamir Rice was shot by a policeman. The justice system then found this cop clear of all charges involving excessive force. In this case many groups can be found shallow; the police department, the justice system, and the general public. The police department is shallow and wanton because this policeman shot a 12 year old within 2 seconds of him coming onto the scene. He shot him because he felt threatened, by his race. The justice system is shallow because they allowed this cop to escape punishment for the crime he committed. Was this because the young boy had a pellet gun? Was this because the officer was white? Was this because the young boy was black? As the general public accepted the pardon of the law they were shallow. They didn’t stand up for what was right and moral, but instead stood back and allow this injustice to occur Currently in Saudi Arabia one of the most prominent human rights activists has been arrested. She like Luther has been dedicated to her cause for years. Her sister is a human rights activist and is married to a human rights lawyer. Luther’s statement applies to this situation too. Badawi is willing to spend her whole life in prison to stand up for what she believes in but other people around her country and around the world
The sequence opens with various shots of the Red Army pioneers marching along the road. We gradually move to the back of the parade until we see Mitia, in disguise, marching with them. However, the camera only stays with him for a brief instant. It tilts down to reveal a young boy who is probably the same age as Nadia, and right after that we cut to a shot of her, at the gate, saluting the pioneers. That single cut reveals the entire essence of Nadia's character. She has one desire: to be a pioneer. She has been raised in a family that cultivates the memory of an idealistic communist regime, in which unity and devotion prevail. Nadia embodies the memories and desires of her people: memories of a past utopia, and desires to keep that utopia alive.
The women were not allowed to go to school. Many of the schools were bombed by the Taliban that where girls schools. The schools for girls, were hidden and very secretive. “As in most families, the girls stayed at home while the boys went to school.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 29). Women’s roles were to stay at home, cook, and raise children. Women had very few rights and could do very few things without a man. “A women couldn’t even open a bank account without a man’s permission.” (Yousafzai, 2015, p. 31). It was set up so women could not succeed without a man. They were oppressed to a point of being unable to anything. This blows my mind. Here in the United States, women are allowed to have bank accounts, go to school and have jobs. This hasn’t always been the case here in the United States either. Women have been oppressed all over the country and not given the same rights as men. Here in the United States, women are still struggling to get the same jobs and wages as
It seems that more often when a group of people or a nation encounters calamity, some great “act of God,” or even just change, collectively, we begin to seek answers from a higher power. We tend to either blame or seek solace in this higher power or we seek what it is we can change to please this higher power. Without realizing we begin to adjust laws, limit freedoms, and become despotic fascist, all in the name of God. This fear of conforming and reverting back to the “dark ages,” constraining women to “know their role or place” is what seems to have driven Margaret Atwood to write her satirical novel “The Handmaids Tale.”
The female perspective is now brought to light as War Witch highlights that it happens all children regardless of gender and age. The lack of rights Komona possesses throughout the film is evident. Repeatedly she is abused by those in authority by means of rape and other physical abuse. Upon her capturing she is whisked off into the jungle where her training had begun, during one of the journeys from one part of the jungle to another she had fallen down due to the heavy weight she was carrying. Komona was then beaten excessively and forced to get back up and continue walking. Women and girls were viewed as lesser beings than men so they had no regard for her welfare. Her freedom was stripped away from her as well after she was captured. Having no say in it she was forced to become a soldier. After drinking from a tree sap which caused her to hallucinate she was announced the Great Tiger’s witch, she became a piece of property. This made it considerably harder to gain her freedom. When she did succeed it came with consequences resulting in the murder of her husband and the recapturing of herself. Komona’s right to say no was snatched away from her the first time she was raped and the many times after that. Men old enough to be her father were forced upon her, she was unable to resist because that could result in either her death or being physically beaten. In order to kill her commander she had to
Imagine a world where you are confined to a room, you have no say in what your day to day life holds, you have no say in anything that happens in your life. This is not an imagination it is reality for the Handmaids in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood. In this story the narrator Offred describes what it is like to be her about her existence in an oppressive organization in a theocratic dictatorship world. “A theocracy dictatorship is a form of government in which a deity is officially recognized as the civil ruler and official policy is governed by officials regarded as divinely guided, or is pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religion or religious group” (Wikipedia). In this story the dictatorship takes place in Gilead, we
As she is forced to explore the differences between herself and her new community , she comes to a realization that culture isn 't a concrete idea or written down in a code of laws, culture is something that stems from ones imagination. Muslims have reasons to why they are skeptical and hateful towards Americans. When American expatriates go to Middle eastern countries to “help” and they are rejected they become “anti-Arab” pessimists. Wilson declares that people who have lost so much because of the Westerners can not be expected to believe that they are now going to be helped by the same enemy that destroyed them. She states “they fail to realize that people who have lost dignity and opportunities to the “clash of civilizations” can not be expected to welcome peacemakers who have lost nothing” (Wilson
...a visit with Aziza, Laila saw a middle-aged woman, with her burqa pushed back…Laila recognized the sharp face… Laila remembered this woman once forbidding the female students from covering, saying women and men were equal, that there was no reason for women should cover if men didn’t” (322). To see a woman who was as close to a feminist as a woman in Afghanistan could get, to see her fall to level that the government wanted her at was crucial point in the novel that allowed us to really see the affect that the government had on the women in controlling every aspect of their lives.
It goes without saying that people are not entitled to take the law in their own hands, for it’s the responsibility of the Muslim State and its concerned bodies to maintain peace, security, etc., and to prevent chaos and disorder from creeping into the Muslim society.”
The justice system shown in this movie is disturbingly biased. Men have all the power. Even a young boy has more power than his mother. I was disgusted by how Soraya’s husband Ali turned sons against their own mother and how young boys spoke down to her. Nothing that Soraya said mattered. She had valuable points to make, but no one cared. No one would listen to her and there was nobody to speak for her. Her aunt tried to stand up for her, but nobody would listen to the aunt either. Only the men could speak and only the men could judge. I was angry and outraged by how badly the men treated the women, even women who they were very close to, women who had raised them or taken care of them. A justice system that is so biased towards one group at the expense of another cannot really be just.