Lolita In Tehran

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

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