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1. I believe that Marjane's identity shifts throughout the story many times. She starts her memoir off by telling the readers that she worships god, she wants to even be a prophet, however as the story goes and she beings to realize everything else that is happening around her. She begins to notice political things at a young age, but when her country is rocked by the fall of the Shah, and then religion rises, she starts to reject religion because she sees how much constraint it puts on her and her society.

2. I believe a lot of my identity comes from outside factors, not to say that I believe that nature is completely responsible for the person that I have become, instead of nurture, but many factors have shaped the person I have become. For example when the planes hit the world trade center in 2001, I didn't think much of it. However a couple of years later when I had started to get into professional gaming, I noticed that many people had a stigma against violent games (the games that I had been playing) because they thought that these games like these bred violent children. I had to publically display my dismay in front of the school board in order to continue playing video games involving guns in my school's computer club. While it didn't change anything and we had to stop playing those games it gave me a new perspective on that subject. I think I had a lot of control over my identity, but I could not stop outside forces such as the one above from effecting me.