I need to stop doing these at 1am...

Part 1) I think Marjane’s identity has a huge shit when she went to the demonstration against fundamentalism. Where she viewed real violence for the very first time in her life, and it seemed to have changed her from the day on. She says “For the first time in my life I saw violence with my own eyes.”(76) Then it showed a woman getting stabbed in the leg. I think from there Marjane finally saw and realized everything going on around her more realistic then ever. It made her grow up faster also, being so contusions of all the events taking place around her.

           Another big factor in general of Marjane identity and most in your face would be the state that her country and what it went through as she was growing up. She didn’t choice to live there during a time of such extremes. Everything about her probably relates back to how she grew up and the things she saw and heard.

Part 2) I would have to say the parts of my identity that I didn’t choice have came from certain events and situations I was brought into. Parts of my life that are to personal to share, but I know had a huge effect on me. I did have to grow up a bit faster then most, but it possibly completely changed my life. Made me look at my own self and what I was going. How I was on a path of destruction and it shifted me to other choices and views. I had no control over these factors , but yet they had huge control over me and simple now are apart of me forever.

              I think a lot of people had a negative reaction to these factors, or no reaction at all. Some people didn’t believe it or even accept it. I didn’t even accept it at first and I was apart of it. But that was their problem.. If anything now Im thankful for them. You could say Im now living one day at a time...or at least trying to.

               Personally I think one doesn’t really have a huge choice in their identity. But its really events, people and the things we see and how we react to them is what makes up are identity. Although at some point we can make choices, choices that could define us. But a good portion of are identity and who we are, are already put into place for us to make that decision.  So in the end, we are who we are by the things that shift us?....