Journey from the Land of No by Corinne Robbins https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb PBL-Profound Passages en-us 2018-05-02 16:38:41 UTC 2018-05-03 19:13:43 UTC hello@padlet.com "I have always felt instantly at ease among black Americans and forget my own outsiderness" (16-17) crobbins2021 https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257346878 In Iran and in America, Roya is treated as outsider and as different because of her nationality and religion. Americans will never truly see here equally-since they only see darker skin and a corrupt government. ]]> 2018-05-02 16:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257346878 "[Americans] come...in two kinds: the misinformed who think of Iran as a backwards nation of Arabs...living on the periphery of oases and fairly represented by a government of mullahs: and the misguided, who believed the shah's regime was a pupped government run by the CIA, and who think that Ayatollah Khomeini...[is an] answer to unwarranted U.S meddling" (10-11) crobbins2021 https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257350514 The memoir starts with Roya in America sharing how misinformed and misguided people treat her differently. Later she shares that even in Iran, the Muslims saw Jews differently, and they even call them dirty. The fear that drives people causes rivalry between groups, that in the end are all people who bleed the same color. ]]> 2018-05-02 16:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257350514 ""Every time I protested, she paused, threw her head back, and with imperial certainty told me that beauty never cam without pain...Then she added that a woman's destiny was to suffer and sacrifice" (68) crobbins2021 https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257767396 As a girl who wants more from the world, who wants education more than doing what a woman should do, Roya struggles. Seeing her cousin make herself up for her much older husband confuses her because Roya does not feel the need to sacrifice herself. Her boldness and intelligence is yet another thing that sets her apart]]> 2018-05-03 17:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257767396 "In books I met people I admired. Like Hellen Keller, I would heed my senses. Like Marie Curie, I would only marry a man...who would truly believe in me...Somewhere beyond my home, beyond my family, there had to be a bigger universe, a sea perhaps...with possibilities greater than the ones I could see, where women lived differently from those close to me"(89) crobbins2021 https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257771059 As Roya reveals more about herself, she reveals that her age has nothing to do with her ability to understand that the world has more to offer than what she is told to take. She is ambitious and courageous, and she has rebellious mind like her brother. One day she will be in a place where she is not called dirty, or only meant for cooking and cleaning. Even though she is an outsider, she will make her own path.]]> 2018-05-03 17:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257771059 "Blood had been shed. The festivities had been made official sacrifice had come, and so had death. Love was sure to follow now"(86) crobbins2021 https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257779390 For the ceremony of Roya's cousin's marriage, a sheep was sacrificed. It is their tradition, it is right for cousin Farah to be married, but the sheep's death symbolizes more the death of a young girl's innocence and freedom. Her sacrifice to her culture. Roya was told that they did not need to love each other at first, instead marriage to a suitable man should come first. But Roya will never see why Farah should give up herself to a man she doesn't truly love. ]]> 2018-05-03 17:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/crobbins2021/73vasr7ewvsb/wish/257779390