Lolita essays

Lolita essays How can someone create a world inside of a world? People of this generation and of generations past have possessed imagination in one form, perhaps two... Words are sometimes hidden by the people who use their imagination. Some (if not most) people are in touch with their imagination. Only but a few people are more in touch with their imagination than reality. Those people usually have a deep and dark hatred for reality. In Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi describes and reflects upon the creation of the other world outside of her room. How can I create this other world outside the room? I have no choice but to appeal once again to your imagination. Lets imagine one of the girls, say Sanaz, leaving my house and let us follow her from there to her final destination. She says her good-byes and puts on her black scarf over her orange shirt and jeans, coiling her scarf around her neck to cover her huge gold earrings. She directs wayward strands of hair under the scarf, puts her notes into her large bag, straps it on over her shoulder and walks out into the hall. She pauses a moment on top of the stairs to put on thin lacy black gloves to hide her nail polish. (26) In this passage, Nafisi is inviting readers to the imaginative part of the brain. That part of the brain is the part of the brain that gives human beings the power to give life and the power to move mountains. Oh, did I mention the power to take the life of another being? The power to, oh, should I say murder?! The last thing a person experiences in life is death. Many people believe in another life after death. The life spent after death is believed to be spent in a place called Heaven or in a place called Hell. Nafisi feels oppressed by the rules and restrictions of the Iranian government. She is searching for a way out. In the end, it does not matter who Nafisi will take down with her. She only knows that s ...