The Importance Of Setting In 'The Shabbat'

Usually a setting changes how a person would act/think. Setting is very important in a story because it helps the reader have more information about what is going on to understand the plot better. In “The Shabbat,” a rebellious girl named Marjane moves to Europe from Iran. She moves to Europe because her parents were worried about her since she is so rebellious and Iran did not have a lot of freedom so they decided to send her away. When she arrives to Europe she starts to see different kinds of people and their culture. She experiences a lot of difficulties while living in Europe and eventually goes back to Iran with her family. In “A Pair of Tickets,” the protagonist is Chinese-American. After her mother dies she finds out she has half
The protagonist, Marjane is from Iran. During the time of “The Shabbat” freedom was very limited. It was the same time period when the Iranian Revolution was going on. “The Iranian Revolution has been one of the epic events of post war history, involving levels of political mobilization, international crisis, and political brutality that have few parallels.” (Halliday,1982 ) The Iranian Revolution made Marjane different compared to some people in Iran because it makes her become more rebellious. Her parents started getting worried because Iran started being too dangerous for her. According to Marjane in Graphic Ethics: Theorizing the Face in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (1982), Marjane once said ”I had .. . to try to explain to people what Iran was really like. That not every woman in Iran looked like a black bird. That the axis of evil also included people like myself. That it was a very bad idea to give democracy as a present to people by bombing them” Since her parents are worried about her they decided to send her away to Europe where she experiences different
The setting in “A Pair Tickets” takes place in China. After the death of her mother the protagonist finds out she has half sisters. The protagonist is from the United States. After communicating with her half sisters she decides to meet them. So the protagonist and her father travel to China where she discovers who she is.
The protagonist in “A Pair of Tickets” does not feel Chinese. When the protagonist was fifteen she would often state that she has no chinese blood in her whatsoever. In the story she says, “Even without make up I can never pass for a true Chinese.” (Tan, 1952) She feels that way because she lives in the United States and she looks “different” compared to chinese people. She says that because once she arrived at the airport in China she realizes that she sees above their heads but she is eye level with other tourist. In the final analysis, the story's setting in“ The Shabbat” and “A Pair of Tickets” both impacted the protagonist by helping them discover who they are. Marjane in the story “The Shabbat” went through a lot in her lifetime. She started off in Iran, then moved to Europe, then back to Iran, then finally she went on to move to France. The protagonist in “A Pair of Tickets” took over 30 years to feel chinese. It took the death of her mother to make her visit China where it made her inner Chinese blood to come