Research Paper Assignment

Graphic novels are becoming very popular in young adult literature and as an aspiring high school English teacher I want to research topics/themes in this book so that way if I wanted to teach it in the future I would have a good background to pull from. I found the views of women presented in this novel are views that many Americans are not used to seeing or dealing with. I want to research deeper into the oppression of women in Iran and how that can affect young men and women growing up. I also want to put some aspects of social standing in there because I really feel that depending upon which class you fell in had an influence on the severity of the oppression you received. And possibly to tie in a cultural connection to people in the U.S I could talk about the contemporary movements about wearing the shawl here in America. I have seen articles on the internet about Muslim women taking a stand and voicing their opinion about the meaning of the shawl and whether or not a woman should be required to wear it.