https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy Study Guide Questions en-us 2021-12-08 15:05:35 UTC 2025-12-29 16:10:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936831959 The novel begins in 1980 during the Islamic Revolution.]]> 2021-12-08 21:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936831959 JoeYoder https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936833023 The revolution is like a bicycle, when the wheels don’t turn it falls. People have to participate in order for things to progress. If people don’t participate then it just stalls]]> 2021-12-08 21:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936833023 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936833941 She was Mad/angry/upset.]]> 2021-12-08 21:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936833941 morganstewart8 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936835636 Marji is ashamed because of her social class. This causes her shame because she doesn't understand why they have to be different and she feels bad for the people in lower classes. This is related to the revolution because they are fighting to get rid of social classes. ]]> 2021-12-08 21:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936835636 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936836875 36. The illustrations on page 18 show the different parties aggressively yelling and fighting, showing that the demonstrations are dangerous and angry.]]> 2021-12-08 21:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936836875 peytongomez https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838340 Cyrus was a Persian emperor of the first Persian empire called the Achaemenid Empire. His tomb is still present today. ]]> 2021-12-08 21:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838340 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838476 The photo on page 15 is very depressing it shows thousands of “burned spirits” rising from the floor. We think of death. It gives you the image in your head of thosands screaming and dying from the fire.]]> 2021-12-08 21:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838476 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838591 The veil symbolizes how girls had to wear the veils to hide their faces, be repressed under men, and not have any say in the government.]]> 2021-12-08 21:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936838591 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936840930
That is because they had been in the streets all day and supporting the revolution.]]> 2021-12-08 21:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936840930 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936841255 Mehri is Marji’s family’s servant. She joins Marji’s family because her family could not afford to take care of her and all her siblings. Marji Views her as a friend and baby sitter. Mehri vies Marji as a little sister. ]]> 2021-12-08 21:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936841255 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936842378 She decided, when she was six, that she wanted to be God’s prophet and be His justice, love, and wrath.]]> 2021-12-08 21:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936842378 jzuniejones https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936842878 God left because Marji because she wanted to be a doctor instead of a prophet]]> 2021-12-08 21:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936842878 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936850474 The Shah's rule was a lot worse than Reza's. Reza was know to keep his word an promises, whereas the Shah lied to the  all of the people]]> 2021-12-08 21:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936850474 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936851553 They were concerned because the father was not home. He had left to take pictures of the demonstration which was against the law and they thought he was dead.When he got home hours later he told them that seen a great crowd carrying out the body. Then an old man being carried out on a stretcher had also been picked up by the crowd. They had called this old man a martyr. The old man’s widow had stopped them, telling the crowd that he was not a martyr but that he had died of cancer. The crowd had told her that it is okay and that he can be a martyr anyway.]]> 2021-12-08 21:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1936851553 JoeYoder https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154305 In the picture on page 42m everyone is smiling and having a good time but at the beginning of the chapter everyone looks sad. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154305 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154398 Someone that has been tortured or killed for a good cause.]]> 2021-12-09 21:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154398 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154581 The shah tries many different Prime Ministers to take his place but he doesn’t like them. He fails because the people still want him out of power and they want him out of the country. He is finally forced to leave the country and the United States doesn’t take him. So instead he goes to exile in Egypt because the leader of Egypt also betrayed his country to the Israelites.]]> 2021-12-09 21:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154581 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154626 Marji decides to tell Lally that her father is dead. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939154626 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155583 The American C.I.A led the torture practices.]]> 2021-12-09 21:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155583 charlottemorse4 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155913 Siamak was in Luristan and Mohsen was is Racht. They were there because they were communists.]]> 2021-12-09 21:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155913 morganstewart8 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155955 He tells his stories to Marji because he doesn't want their family memories to be lost. He tells her that it is okay if she doesn't understand it, but he thinks it is important for her to hear the stories first hand. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939155955 peytongomez https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939156002 He abandoned his uncle because he was arrested by the Shah’s soldiers. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939156002 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939156375  - He was wanted and he went to prison for 7 years. And her grandpa was the old Shau and the ought they were traitors ]]> 2021-12-09 21:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939156375 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939157647 Marji’s dad says the Middle East will never have peace is because they keep betraying each other. They also keep getting attacked by every one because of there oil. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939157647 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939158668 “It is not for you and me to do justice” pg 46
Not to judge and take action on other people it is someone/ something with more power’s job to do that 
“I’d even say that we half to learn to forgive.” Pg 46
If you dont forgive someone you wont get anywhere. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939158668 jzuniejones https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939159340 The war has exposed children to horrors and Ideals they should not know, for example, Children are being persuaded into thinking one side is right or one side is wrong or justifying murder]]> 2021-12-09 21:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939159340 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939160119
What is Anoosh’s primary motive for sharing his story with Marji? 102

]]> 2021-12-09 21:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939160119 georgereichardt https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939162450 Ramin believes that his father was not a murderer because his dad killed communist and Ramin was taught that communists are bad. The other kids don’t agree with him and they want to find him and beat him up with nails for his beliefs. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939162450 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939164357 Anoosh went to Moscow. He got married and had two kids. He is regretful. ]]> 2021-12-09 21:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1939164357 jzuniejones https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945586045
This drawing displays the emotions of the girls at a memorial, I notice how they all have blank expressions as if they were in awe]]> 2021-12-13 21:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945586045 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945587259 Marji thinks that doing adult actions will make her become a adult. Marji smokes a cigarette and now feeels like a grownup]]> 2021-12-13 21:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945587259 morganstewart8 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588185 The regime became more repressive because the people who were opposed to it would be systematically arrested and executed together.]]> 2021-12-13 21:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588185 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588291 They lost their culture and their respect that they once had.]]> 2021-12-13 21:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588291 charlottemorse4 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588442 The shoppers do not like the refugees. They spread rumors about them and they don’t think that the refugees should be in their country.]]> 2021-12-13 21:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945588442 bradygemperline https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590030 when she wet to her uncles party to celebrate the birth of her cousin. Also when she heard about children going to war.]]> 2021-12-13 21:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590030 peytongomez https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590067 Because it was there only way of keeping sane through all the oppression. They needed to feel freedom even if it wasn’t necessarily the smartest decision.]]> 2021-12-13 21:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590067 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590078 Anoosh’s final wish is that he wants to see his niece. He wants to see her because he wants to give her another bread duck. He also wants to tell her that he loves her. His last words to her were, “Star of my life.” He was then executed for being a Russian spy.]]> 2021-12-13 21:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590078 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590702 The rationality was to protect woman from being attacked/ harmed. It was because women hair was “exiting men”. ]]> 2021-12-13 21:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945590702 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945592035 The two possible outcomes is that they become slaves to the government and society and that they would lead to the destruction of their country.]]> 2021-12-13 21:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945592035 JoeYoder https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593177 She says its the Iranian fighter jets but her Dad says its the Iraqis fighter jets]]> 2021-12-13 21:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593177 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593275 They closed down Universities to make sure that students weren’t led away from the path of islam.  ]]> 2021-12-13 21:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593275 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593642 She wanted to Be friends with Kids who were older than her. She also violated their trust when She went to the demonstration. ]]> 2021-12-13 21:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945593642 ashleydigregorio https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945594383 They told the kids that paradise would be full of riches and women and great things, and that it was better than Disneyland, but that is not at all what Heaven is like. It also was just a trick, and many of the kids were killed in war because they were looking forward to heaven.]]> 2021-12-13 21:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945594383 georgereichardt https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945594429 It was unusual to hear it because the national anthem was forbidden in Iran and replaced with a different one. It was played because Iranian planes carried out bombings on Baghdad that night.]]> 2021-12-13 21:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945594429 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945596903 The U.S. wouldn’t allow anyone to travel to the U.S. Marji is upset because she wanted to see the embassy/ America. ]]> 2021-12-13 21:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1945596903 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948065626 the mood was very sad and dreadful, Marji’s mom was trying to reassure her that they would be back in 6 monthes to visit her and she shouldn’t cry but the overlying mood was really depressing and sad.]]> 2021-12-14 21:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948065626 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948067110 I think that they will reunite fate rather war is over and have new troubles that pardon them.]]> 2021-12-14 21:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948067110 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948068436 The phone call brings news of Marjes uncle. He had suffered from a heart attack. He has the heart attack when a gernade went off right next to their house. He didn’t survive because they didn’t have the correct tools to fix him. He needed a passport to get the tools to survive but his passport came the day he died.]]> 2021-12-14 21:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948068436 hadleyjuchem https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948069953 Marji’s parents received their passports after her uncle died. The passports alowed world pass to anywhere except anywhere occupied by Palestine. ]]> 2021-12-14 21:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948069953 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948069999 A large segment of people leaving the country were young boys because they were forced to fight when they were older and were not allowed to leave the country after they turned 13.]]> 2021-12-14 21:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948069999 JoeYoder https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948070369 When she returns home she tells her mom she is just tired, but she had just been crying because she had been caught by the Guardians of the Revolution. ]]> 2021-12-14 21:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948070369 charlottemorse4 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948070426
The purpose is to make sure everyone is following the new laws that had been put in place. When they encounter Marji, they say that she is not allowed to wear the shoes and jacket. Marji responds by crying and making up a story about her family life.]]> 2021-12-14 21:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948070426 morganstewart8 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948072522 When Marji's behaves badly in school her father is happy and glad to see that she has a strong mind like her uncle. However, her mother is not as excited because her uncle was executed. She also tells Marji that she could be sold into marriage, have her virginity taken, then executed. Marji is shocked by this and thinks about it all night long. She relates it to being a martyr and "feeding societies blood line" . ]]> 2021-12-14 21:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948072522 peytongomez https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948073611 The currency tuman looses it value during the war. This is usual. ]]> 2021-12-14 21:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948073611 morganstewart8 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948074320 Don't forget who you are and where you come from.]]> 2021-12-14 21:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948074320 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948074529 The cost to make a fake passport for Marjes uncle is about $200. He agreed to make a fake passport in 5 days. Before he could finish that though, people spotted Niloufar, the girl he was hiding. That forced him to stop everything he was doing and flee to Syria. He asked Syria for asylum just like his brother did.]]> 2021-12-14 21:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948074529 https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948076698 The borders of Iran were closed for three years. This was due to very high tensions in the country. No one could go in the country or go out of it. People, like political prisoners, found ways to escape the country though.]]> 2021-12-14 21:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948076698 bradygemperline https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948077273 It warns of a bomb. It makes the characters show anticipation.]]> 2021-12-14 21:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948077273 ashleydigregorio https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948077381 Marjis mother attempts to protect her by pulling her away from the Baba-Levy's house when they walked past it so Marji wouldnt find out they were home during the bombing and got killed. Marji finds out when she sees Nada's bracelet still attached to a chunk of her arm, and that's when she realized they were dead.]]> 2021-12-14 21:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948077381 jzuniejones https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948085957
This image shows how Marji wants so badly to believe her friend is ok even though deep down she knows.]]> 2021-12-14 21:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/finneyp/xa5s27h91mqbi6xy/wish/1948085957