Pressure

"I know you."

"I know who you are."

"I know what you've done."

"You are who you were born to be and what you've done."

Intimidation.
Harm.
Violence.

Ghahramani has a style of writing in which she perfectly depicts how resigned she is towards this interview; how her feelings and what she's really been through doesn't really matter. Through the use of telling her stories of who she was raised to be, and who her parents were, she allows the reader to tell how she's thinking, and what she really wants to say.

"rules," "restrictions," "primitives," and "strange cult," are all words/phrases she uses in order to set a tone: condescending, resigned, and sentimental.

In this section of the book, she narrates how her dad presented her with an alternative way of seeing the world. How she was the innocent child that has been gradually exposed to a world that shows only evil, learning that there is no good in the world. We are created to be naïve creatures, as if there's any hope that this will disappear someday, like a generation cleanse. We are nurtured with lies, that conflict with our violent, envious, and troublesome nature.

"I was expected to keep one way of seeing the world private, spoken of only within the family home, while the second understanding was to be public, a way of advertising my loyalty to the state. It was like learning two languages, and remembering when to use one, and when to use the other."

Ghahramani shows us the theory of how we hide our reality to maintain peace. A fake, superficial existence that does no good--to anyone. By using words/phrases like "expected," "private," and "advertising my loyalty," the reader can easily tell how much pressure she's feeling. The suppressed anger regarding what she was "expected" to, what she was forced to. Her word choice tells us much more, than just the nature vs. nurture conflict in this section.

"But with the passage of years, the time comes when the child, now a young woman, will wish to speak up more on behalf of one world than on behalf of the other. And that is what happened to me."

The existence of the homo sapiens sapiens self-titles itself as an existence of a thinking, creative creature. We choose sides, and create, make and explore what we consider is truly real, and what isn't. We finally decide what we want to believe in, and what's right to us. Regarding Ghahramani's language metaphor, she chose the language of liberty of her nation.