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Mortality Theme
People die every day, claimed by old age, cancer, doing stupid tricks to be the next YouTube sensation, and so on. But in Iran, it seems like there are a lot more ways to die than usual: war, religious persecution, being tortured by the police. The Iranian people are constantly surrounded by death. It's on the news, and all their streets are named after martyrs. Marjane even mentions at some point that it's like living in a graveyard. The Nightmare Before Christmas this ain't. This is just a nightmare.
Death is a way of life in Iran, but it never gets easy for Marjane to cope with.
The Iranian government is losing so many of its citizens, they have to make death something to celebrate to keep people from rebelling against them… or at least delay the next inevitable revolution.
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