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The government finally reopens the country’s borders, and Marjane’s parents quickly receive their passports.
Marjane’s parents ask Marjane if she wants them to bring her back any gifts, and Marjane asks them to smuggle back for her a few forbidden Western items.
In Istanbul, they buy her a denim jacket, Nike shoes, and two posters, one of Kim Wilde, and one of Iron Maiden.
Marjane’s parents hide the posters in the inside lining of Marjane’s father’s coat.
Marjane excitedly puts up the posters in her room as well as wears her new clothes along with her headscarf, of course.
Though Marjane is only thirteen, Marjane’s parents let her go out alone, unlike most Iranian parents.
One day she goes to buy illegal cassettes of Western Music, but on the way home afterwards she gets stopped by two members of the women’s branch of the Guardians of the Revolution
The two members question her about her clothes, her pin of Michael Jackson, and her veil. Though Marjane lies and tries to feign ignorance, the women want to take her to “the committee,” where she might be detained for hours or days, or even whipped, without her parents finding out.
Though the two members insist on taking Marjane into their car, she comes up with a fake sob story about her difficult family situation and weeps about it in front of the two women.
The two women let her go and Marjane decides not to tell her parents about the episode because she knows that if she does they will never allow her out on her own again. She listens to American music to calm herself down.
EXTRACTS
in this extract, we see that Marjanes Parents go to buy the gifts as soon as they land in istanbul
after they purchase the items, while walking home, Marjanes parents acknowledge the fact that life for kids in Iran is hard.
when they are in the hotel room, marjanes mother shows her intuitivness by finding a solution to getting the posters past customs back home
in this extract we see that after the woman from the commitee confronts marjane,