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Lolita In Tehran

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Adaptability is what keeps human life from deteriorating. It’s a natural mechanism that functions unconsciously, helping people deal/cope with difficult situations. In Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi's class adapts to the traumatic political changes of the Islamic Regime by creating a private classroom to attend. Without adapting in this way Nafisi and her class would have conflicting feelings over what the way they want to live, and the way the way Tehran wants them to live. In other words, they would continue to feel miserable under the unfair laws of the Islamic Regime if not for the creation of the class. In Stout's text , “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning it Was Friday,” Stout's patients adapt in a less communal and less physical …show more content…

Snakes have adapted to the wild, and as a result, have skin that can camouflage them within their environment so that they can avoid predators (i.e. death). However, have you ever wondered, what if these snakes aren’t fond of their color? What if they are forced to wear skin that they feel is not truly what they are? Martha Stout had patients who weren’t very fond of their skins (their lives). One of her patients, Julia, is trapped in her “skin” and can’t get out. Her skin, is her life of dissociating. She’s been wearing it ever since she was a child, always in this skin (dissociated world of hers). It stops her from being able to remember even the most conventional and simple memories one would usually remember easily. When explaining Julia’s dissociation Stout says, “Simply put, Julia did not remember her childhood because she was not present for it” (Stout 426). As a child Julia was abused by her parents, her body adapted to this by going into a state of protection in her mind. Julia took herself away from the abuse by leaving the physical world and dissociating. The abuse traumatized her, so she began to dissociate throughout her whole childhood since she was abused for years. Therefore she couldn’t remember because her mind really wasn’t present at the time her childhood events took place. Even though dissociating kept

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Julia describes it as having a “ghost father and ghost sister”(pg.15). All of these factors have forced Julia to face feelings of depression and guilt that she's been repressing while also intensifying them. Ever since she was little, Julia felt like the odd daughter out for liking and believing in different things. She wasn't who they wanted her to be like, Olga, “Saint Olga, the perfect Mexican daughter. Sometimes I wanted to scream at her until something switched on in her brain.

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Julia is quite the opposite from her; she is a free spirit, which her mom does not like because she is a hispanic mom who believes no child of hers should go out and be "in other people’s cocinas" (Sanchez, 56). Julia feels suffocated every time Ama compares her to Olga and says Olga did things better which shows imbalance of power in Olga having the power for being the favorite even if she’s dead because she always did what Ama told her and in Amas eyes she was perfect, while Julia was like the black sheep of the family because she never helped and was always getting in trouble. The only thing Julia wants is the love of her mother, but what she gets in return is the blame for her sister's death. That day Olga died, Julia had argued with a teacher, and Ama had to go talk to the principal instead of picking up Olga. Ama never blamed her directly until one day she said, "Maybe if you knew how to behave yourself...

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