Natalia..
I feel that the characters such as Marji's father and the boy next door could have gone about it differently. To me, I feel that the social classes they were both in shouldn't have mattered if they really cared about one another. Just because Mehri was their maid does not mean that she should be treated any differently than any other person. It's just like with gay marriage. Some people tend to frown upon the fact that two people of the same sex want to get married when the "typical" family should consist of a male and a female. But who honestly gives them the right to keep them from marrying or even being together? I believe in love to the utmost and I always have. Growing up, I was in a religion where gay marriage was against the bible and seen as something terrible that made them hell bound. But as I grew up and went through things in my life, I saw that love was something powerful that I felt anyone could have with whoever they wanted. I hate the fact there is this separation between things just based on certain opinions or rules that are made. It' understandable that society had to have rules and all but I also feel that when it comes to the right to break those barriers, people shouldn't be shunned or judged or even punished. The experience that I had with this was kind of recent. I was dating this guy who was in the army and ever since, his family has been in the military dating back to his great great grandfather. When the day came that I met his family, his father asked me what I wanted to do with my future after high school. When I explained that I wanted to be a journalist and write, he laughed and was instantly judging my choice. He said that it was better to be out fighting in the war and diminishing peace than to write. Automatically, I knew my relationship was not going to last long. Not because of what his father said but basically because I saw that no matter how much we cared for one another, his family wanted an army girl and a fighter; I was a thinker and a writer. Even now I look back and see that it shouldn't have been a factor but then again, no one can really decide the fate of things. But overall, fighting the dividing factor is something everyone should do.
Ashley...
I couldn't honestly say just one situation that I've gone though where I had to do something I didn't want to do. But if I did have to choose one, It would have to be my current one. I start college and I'm going to be living on campus. I only live 45 minutes away but I felt it better and easier for me to stay on campus. I have a little sister who is ten years old and is barely starting to grow up and mature. To my sister, I've always been the person she looks up to and also the person that she knows she can come to if she needs something or wants to ask me something. Being away from home is something I find really hard to do because I won't be there to keep being that support she needs in her life. But at the same time, I have to honestly think about my future and how I want to pursue my dream so badly and I know that being at home will not help me do that. It makes me feel helpless and sad because I just really hope that she'll remember that I'm still there for her and that I'm not leaving her behind. With Marji, she tries really hard to sort of figure out what's going on and at the same time learning not to hold anger inside of her for certain friend's parents who maybe partaking in the way things are going on around them and killing off people in the war.She explains to her friend Ramin on page 46 that even though his dad killed people, it wasn't Ramin's fault. after he tells her that his dad is actually a hero for doing so, she tells her mother how wrong he was. I don't believe that anyone can be a hero for killing someone for any reason or circumstance. Just like Marji, we always wanna think that there always has to be something good that'll come soon. She sees the trouble and corruption but also believes that there will be hope for the future.
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