Nafisi Vs Satrapi

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1. Coiled her black robe around her orange shirt, tucked her hair into her scarf, covered her gold earrings and put gloves over her hands to cover her finger nail polish. To help the reader understand that women are trying to progress but because of laws they must hid these things in fear of their lives. 2. The rhetoric of these two authors is very alike in that their use of media form is used to describe and covey their feels with great detail. Author Nafisi uses first-hand accounts and compares how Sanaz changes her behaviors while being inside out of view and outside when in view of the police. Author Satrapi uses the pictures to help the reader form an image of what these women go through. 3. The power being referred to in the

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