The Water Cell

Summary:

Relatives show in the streets every day.
Since the girl is not important because the parents were very exhausted, she says: "As for me, I love the King [the Shah], he was chosen by God."
The girl's father explains that "God did not choose the King".
His father tells Marjane that fifty years earlier Shah's father, Reza Shah, organized a coup to establish a Republic. Although the idea of ​​a republican government was popular among these earlier revolutionaries,
There were many different interpretations among them.
Reza Shah was not an educated leader or a natural leader, but an illiterate 'low-ranking officer', taken advantage of by the British, who wanted to alienate the Russian Bolsheviks and take advantage of Iran's vast oil fields.
The father explains that the emperor that the Shah's father overthrew was in fact her maternal great-grandfather, as son of the emperor, a prince.
The Father of the Shah took everything his grandfather possessed; however, because he was educated, the Shah's father appointed him Prime Minister, became a communist and also a critic of the regime. For this reason he was later sent to prison and tortured; He was often placed for hours in a cell full of water.
Marjane's mother, this grandfather's daughter, sadly describes how, as a child, she always feared the knock on the door which often meant that her father would once again be arrested.
She visited him in jail, but his health deteriorated dramatically due to the terrible conditions.
The girl no longer wanted to play Monopoly if not that she wants to take a bath in the tub, wanted to know how it felt to be in a cell full of water.
God asks what he is doing, as if he did not understand. When she comes out, her hands are wrinkled, "like grandpa".

My Opinion:

She has the right to say what she wants on issues of politics and religion, but she is now slowly realizing that opinions and decisions about the real world can affect her and her relatives, so she wants to get into the bath To simulate that he is in a cell to know that he feels to be someone physically damaged because of his political beliefs.
But now with the unjust policy is a lack of respect the slight faults in the countries and the community.

THE BICYCLE

Summary:
The story is about a girl who stopped being a prophet in the year of the revolution, she describes to her friends that “the revolution is like a bicycle, when the wheels don’t turn, it falls.” She suggests that often in the history of Iran the wheels haven’t been turning.
She goes back to the history of Iran as her father explained. His father describes the history of Iran as "2500 years of tyranny and submission." Abuse of power, he explains, has often been from inside and outside. Foreign invasions include the "Arab invasion of the West, the Mongol invasion from the East and finally modern imperialism," when European powers sought to control Iran.
She's parents, buy books to "enlighten" her, read about Palestine, Fidel Castro, Vietnam, Karl Marx and the many revolutionaries in Iran who died young dead.
He listened to talk about the fire at El Cine Rex, where there were 400 victims, the Shah said that it was the fault of religious groups, but people knew that he was to blame, after all that happened the girl decides to talk to her parents who thought That it was dangerous to go out into the streets and convert them to go against these unjust regimes, God who had previously been with her, disappeared when she wanted to show him how she looked. The disappearance of God, however, indicates its continuous evolution away from religious sentiment and perhaps its slow maturing process, which is full of pain and uncertainty.

THE VEIL

Summary:
This story is about the childhood of a girl in 1979 when the Islamic revolution came.
It came 1980: the year in which it became mandatory to wear the veil, for a time the society where women and men shared their same abilities and equality was lost, this was called the cultural revolution, where men and women had to do different things and women were prevented from doing various things like being prophets and not wearing a veil, men hated and prevented women from going or wanted to be prophets, women protested against the new rules in macho society.
The girl in the story dreams of being a prophet told God, which is something that can not tell the public because they laugh at it and it is forbidden to be.

My opinion:

Gender equality is the most important since all people have the right to work or do what they like. In this story we can appreciate that the girl becomes impossible to be a prophet but she deserves to be happy and be free to express her thoughts and emotions, for the simple fact that she is a woman, a living being like any other human who also have Right to do the same things equally.

Gender Equality: It is "the equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men, and girls and boys. Equality does not mean that women and men are the same, but rights, responsibilities and opportunities do not depend on the sex with which they were born.