Summary Of Prisoners Of Tehran By Marina Nemat

All of us have our own stories to tell. Each and every story different from the other. In the work written by Marina Nemat, she mentions that Iranian women would have the most interesting stories to tell, why? In the work that she has written, she talks about what she has experienced. Marina said that her world turned upside down with the rise of the new Iranian Government. She said that the rights of women were violated and their freedom as women became limited. She also mentions that men were allowed to abuse their wives without consequence. This shows that women would have experienced a harsh and difficult life and would be one of the reasons why the author believes that women would have told the most interesting stories about their experience under the new Iranian Government.
Marina talks about dreams that she had that were ruined because of the new government’s laws. She was also imprisoned for a long time, and it that time she experienced horrible things such as rape. She got her freedom back and has went on to write her famous book entitled “Prisoners of Tehran”. This proves that she has lots of experiences to share because she experienced the oppression brought by the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini. I believe that when a person first-handedly experiences an event, that person would have the most interesting perspective of anyone telling that story. This is because that person is the one who will get affected the most by the experience. With Iranian women, they were the ones whose rights were violated. They were oppressed for a long amount of time. When these women break free and escape, they take with them the experiences they’ve had. Some of them, like Marina, became authors and told their stories, which really touch the reader. The more the person experiences something, the more they can tell about what happened, which is why those stories are the more