The Passport

 The Passport:

When I first read the title: The Passport, I thought things were going to get better. When you think of passport, you think of freedom, but freedom is far from what this chapter is about. Uncle Taher has another heart attack. A passport is not given to his wife so he can be operated on overseas. So they went to a friend, Khosoro, and asked him to make them fake passports. While at his house an 18-year old girl comes out of the basement. She is in hiding because she is a communist. A couple days later Khosoro’s house was ransacked. The 18-year girl was arrested and killed. Khosoro fled on a horse to turkey. Three weeks later Uncle Taher passed away. That same day his real passport arrived.

 I believe that the picture below represents what Marjane and her family were feeling at that moment. They felt trapped. In the picture you can infer that the person can’t move, that their hands are handicapped. You can also see that the wood is in the shape of a word bubble. I believe this means that they don’t have the freedom of speech, which is what the Iranian people where going through.