Prisoner Of Tehran Analysis

The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat is a story of young girl who was born in 1965 in Tehran, Iran. Her father was a dancer while her mother was a hairdresser. Marina in her young days liked to dance, have fun at the beach and liked to spend time with her friends and crush Andre who she met in the church. She was brought up in an orthodox Christian family and went to a school with majority of Muslims in it. Religion was never a matter of concern back in the early days when Nemat went to school.
Marina Nemat was arrested at the age of sixteen as a result of Islamic revolution 1979. She was arrested because Nemat and her friends wanted to study math and history instead of the study of Koran and political propaganda in school during Islamic revolution. When Nemat protested against her teachers to teach the students math and history and not Koran the teacher asked Nemat to leave the class if she was not interested in learning, and to her surprise all her friends and classmates followed her outside class, which resulted an arrest for Nemat and her friends.
Nemat was arrested in January 1982 at the age of sixteen with other youths and taken to the prison of Tehran. She was beaten, torched and was even sentenced to death as a result of committing political crimes. The book “prisoner of Tehran” further goes on
She now lives in Canada and has started a new life although it’s hard for her to forget what she went through. Through this book I think the message that she is trying to bring across is the message of forgiveness. It’s not hard to hate anyone, but the person who forgives is the one that goes ahead. No person is evil or engage in bad practices by birth; it’s always the circumstances that change the person. By forgiving the people that held her captive and beat her to death Nemat showed the power of love and forgiveness over evil and