Marjane Satrapi's Struggle For Freedom

Freedom is a thing that people need to earn and fight for; without it, there will be many restrictions. For example, many people suffer after the Revolution in Iran, Satrapi started telling about some of their struggles: “...the government had imprisoned and executed so many high school and college students that we no longer talked politics” (Marjane Satrapi 84). This is showing how the students of different ages stood up to a law to make some changes. Other people did not keep on fighting, but instead, they let those efforts become useless; they did not work for their freedom. Another example is when Martin Luther King Jr. says in his “I Have a Dream” speech: “There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted
his citizenship rights” (King 49). The Negroes will fight for freedom until they are free of all discrimination. There was a lot of discrimination and complete freedom was not given right away from the first time; they had to keep on fighting for it. Also, Soueif writes in a diary of 2010 about the Arab Spring: “...we had come together as individuals, millions of us in a great cooperative effort” (Ahdaf Soueif 75). There had been a long fight going on and they managed to earn their freedom. They struggled to receive the treatment they wanted and in the end, it would pay off, they are able to peacefully gather together. People will be restricted from freedom if they do not stand up for their cause.