Trouble In Farsi Critical Analysis

Education is crucial in order to get by in many places. Firoozeh Dumas in her memoir, Trouble in Farsi takes the reader back to when Dumas was a child, new in the U.S with many problems trying to get along. Throughout the story there are situations in which education would have help, especially education of language. To start off, on the first day of school Dumas and her mother have difficulty getting along with the class. Dumas’ mother is told to point out Iran on the map and she failed to do so. In failing she embarrassed herself and Dumas. The reason why she could not point out Iran on the map is because she lacked education “The problem was that my mother, like most women of her generation, had been only briefly educated.”(Dumas 113).