Marjane sealed her act of rebellion against her mother's dictatorship by smoking and she also believes that smoking is an illustration to show that she is no longer a girl or a child and she wants to be treated as a grown up (Satrapi117). Many teenagers in our current society has indeed show that puffing cigarettes is a start to their adulthood. Cigarettes can only be purchased when a person is no longer a minor or when they have reached the country's legal age to buy cigarettes. The legal age in many countries ranges from eighteen to twenty-one years old. Thus by puffing cigarettes, teenagers who smoke might have the mindset that they are no longer a minor and the government has given them the liberty to do anything that is deemed legal as long as they exceeds that legal age. In addition, smoking in the group of smokers, will make a teenager feel that he is being accepted and respected as an individual. I condcuted several interviews with my friend who smokes and ask them why would they want to destroy their health through smoking.Many of the answers states that smoking created an environment of unity and they will not want to care of the consequences. Isn't it like Marjane's act of rebelion? Knowing of the consequences of smoking but my friends still think it is fine to do it.
2 Comments:
Nice write up.
Nice topic. Great template. Yet i feel the title should be changed to
"A puff closer to the grave" Though. LOL
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