1. How is Azar Nafisi's perspective as a woman and a scholar living under an oppressive regime reflected in the rhetoric she uses in Reading Lolita in Tehran? 2. How is Marjane Satrapi's perspective of a young women out of place in a rigid and uncompromising society reflected In Persepolis 2?

3. What purpose(s) might these authors have in writing these texts? How might the similarities and differences in their personal histories affect their purpose(s)?

4. Thinking about the central idea in both texts, what details are emphasized and how do these details convey the authors message?