Final Project
Throughout the whole of this semester i sit in the back next to Ben and keep silent. The teacher asks for feedback. I have nothing to give her. I'm in a constant state of confusion. If I speak aloud then everyone will know that I don't really know what's going on. I asked Ben once to explain how to do the first project three or four times. It's hard to wrap my brain around. So I try and make it up as I go along. I hear others speak out in class with such conviction and passion and true understanding and wonder how the hell their brain is wired this way. I feel like this class for the most part is beyond my comprehension. I was not ever meant to think this way. What are minority rhetorics? It's the end of the year and I still have no idea. This sort of reminds me how I felt when I read Persepolis for the first time. On page four when she discusses this dude who comes in and changes everything that she knows about the school system. It doesn't really describe her confusion but it does make one wonder. "Who the hell is this guy? Who does he think he is coming in and changing things like this?" Being told a different way to be and to think was surely very hard. In a sense through this class I can sort of relate though at not such a dramatic cost. I'm sure for Marjane it was much MUCH more difficult. Having such revolutionaries for parents didn't help her at all. She doesn't know what to think. Her teachers telling her one thing while her parents go against it. Of course she'll follow her parents in the end but I'm sure her understanding of why these things happened is nil as is mine. Who the hell is that guy and what gives him the right to change things so dramatically? I dont know. I'm sure that Marjane thought the same as she asked herself the same questions. I don't know.