...and even more controversy. The book is about the life of an English teacher during the revolution of Iran. Nafisi was born in Iran but then left for America. She later returned to teach at Tehran University. The place she once called home is sadly and horrifically changed. The theme is anti-American. The job she has so eagerly accepted and come to love has tossed her aside all because she refuses to wear a veil. Even the expression of oneself through forms of art is being censored. Some books are even being banned. Nafisi thinks that this is wrong and that books teach people valuable lessons about life. Not wanting to give up so easily she begins teaching a group of students in secret. She allows them to come to her home to go over some Western authors that she has selected and told them to read in their spare time. Some of those authors include: Jane Austin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. The memoir talks of her meetings with the girls and her discussions about the books assigned to them. She is trying to educate the students about reading. Out of all of those books I believe that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one which should be looked at the closest. This book is ideal for showing the students the importance of and reasons behind reading literature. The book has many controversial issues that deal with human nature and human emotions. It has situations and emotions that show that it is highly possible and probable that people will interpret those said situations or emotions in different ways. Love, jealousy, desire, security, and happiness are all interpreted in different ways by the different characters. Adultery and marriage are also shown to be more complicated than they outwardly appear. This shows the students that life is not just black and white. There are areas of gray as well. It also shows that despite rules...
