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Marjane Satrapi's Struggle For Freedom
Freedom is a thing that people need to earn and fight for; without it, there will be many restrictions. For example, many people suffer after the Revolution in Iran, Satrapi started telling about some of their struggles: “...the government had imprisoned and executed so many high school and college students that we no longer talked politics” (Marjane Satrapi 84). This is showing how the students of different ages stood up to a law to make some changes. Other people did not keep on fighting, but instead, they let those efforts become useless; they did not work for their freedom. Another example is when Martin Luther King Jr. says in his “I Have a Dream” speech: “There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted

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