Marina is the main character in this book, as it is a memoir of her life. She is a very smart, intriguing, intelligent, well informed, brave woman. She is extremely mature. She is Christian, and was arrested January 15th, 1982, she was accused for plotting against the government when she spoke out in Math class and asked her teacher to teach her Calculus instead of talking about Politics.
Marina’s Mother
Marina’s mother has her own hair dressing salon under the apartment, Marina’s mother is very disciplined on Marina and used to lock her on Marina’s balcony for hours to solitude her. “My mother’s body was shaking and her face had turned white. She had covered her mouth with her hand, as if to muffle a never-ending cry.” This is how she felt when
Marina’s Grandma is a stereotypical Russian bahboo.
Marina’s Father
Owned a dance studio, though after his mothers death he closed down his dance studio and found a job at a division of the Ministry of Arts and Culture, working with folklore dance groups. He got to travel to different countries with this job with the men and women dancers who represented
Ali
Was like marina’s dark guardian angel, he was a revolutionary guard, who took an interest in
Albert
Albert is an Amernian secondhand book keeper, for three years Albert’s bookstore were the highlights of
Sarah and Sirus
Sarah had been
Sarah and Marina re-united in Evin Political Prison after
Sarah’s father was an engineer and a big man who always told funny jokes, laughed loudly and recited beautiful old poems. Sarah’s mother worked at a bank and always wore elegant suits and very high heeled shiny black shoes, she was a small, round women with short, black hair, who always hugged
Gita
Gita and Marina have been friends since she was 13. Gita and Marina met at cottage country, 5 hours north of
Arash
Arash was
At the end of summer Arash left 2 weeks before
Irena Arash’s Grandma
Irena which is Arash’s grandma was also a refugee from
Ivanna,
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed reading your blog and I think that you did a very good job of portraying the qualities of the characters in Prisoner of Tehran. I would agree with many of the qualities that you gave Marina such as being intelligent, well informed and exceptionally brave. I think it would have been better if you concentrated more on how these qualities were portrated in the story. By the way, Humpalot is a very interesting last name...
Johno
Hey Ivanna,
ReplyDeleteYou are clearly understanding what you're reading, and have a good sense of the different characters.
It would have been interesting to hear more about your ideas and less summary - by that I mean, which characters do you think you would like and which would you dislike if you were to meet them? What are you learning about cultural rules and expectations in Iran? Do any of these characters remind you of anyone you know from popular culture or real life? Try to make more connections and share more of your connections with what you are reading in future posts.
-KH-
Love the book... was really gooe and touchy
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