Essay 2 Redo

The book Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji was very interesting, intriguing but also historical. This book showed me many human experiences that we all share like laughter, tears, love, fear but most of all hope. It also gave me a different perspective about Iran at the 70s which I totally didn’t know. It shows how the government dealt with people who stood for their rights by not facing them but either torturing them. Yet with all the horrible things the government did, there is a better side where people care and love each other. Rooftops of Tehran changed my perception about the prevalence of corruption, the family and social values, and the importance of knowledge.
The prevalence of corruption of the government is shown in many parts of the book. Doctor keeps on criticizing the government’s lack of freedom that the citizens get and the politics. In addition the way the school is presented is horrible because the way they discipline them and treat them is unpractical. It shows that authorities abuse its power towards their people. Like when Pasha didn’t know how to answer a question, the teacher took the ruler and started hitting his hand over and over again until his hands burned and felt heavy. This book has many facts that are present which are that the Pahlavi Dynasty abusing their power of their dictatorship so that the people would fear them and have control over them. He directly criticizes the royals who are not also misuse their powers, but also misuse the religion in their rulings. “Most of the time the fact that the opposition even exists – the Toodeh party, the Communists, the Islamist Marxists – is denied, or those groups are referred to as kharab-kars – subversive activists, terrorists, and people who commit appalling acts in the name of politics. According to the media, Iran is a unified nation in the service of the king of the kings: the shahanshah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi. Acknowledging the existence of political opposition is considered