Summary Of The Prisoner Of Tehran By Marina Neemat

The first meeting of our book club was on the 15th of october 2014. The book we were discussing was The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat, a memoir on the struggles faced by sixteen year old Marina who was falsely charged by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the torture she faced in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison. When most teenagers are going to the movies , thinking about boys and the next celebrity gossip , Nemat was locked up in jail and was listening to her friends being disposed of. She was left to die but one of the guards Ali, who was well connected to the Khomeini regime pleaded for life and was given a life imprisonment rather than killed like her friends. But the price she’d have to pay for

For example when we were discussing our questions, we all chose the question about who had power in the story.We all agreed that the Government and Guards had al of power. Some of the guards used their powers for good, while majority of them exploited their power and tortured raped and did terrible things to the females at the Evin prison. We all also compared what was going in the story to similar situations in the present time.She spoke of the similarities of the treatment of females in the story and the way females are treated in canada and other countries such as Nigeria,pakistan etc. We also discussed about the rights of the females in the story and how we should appreciate what we have, because what e take for granted her such as freedom of speech, the females didn’t have that.If anyone spoke of their opinions they were sent to prison for opposing the Khomeini’s ideas .I feel that our first meeting was successful because we all learnt new things from each other, we were able to see the story from another perspective , and I took some of what I learned from the other members and tried to apply it to my reading of the