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How people's identities are shaped - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The narrator writes: "Tuyen loved World Cup. She loved being in the middle of whirling people, people spinning on emotion…Tuyen felt elated, infected by the mood on the street" (Brand, 233).
        
        These words show that the crazy environment infected Tuyen, and she also became one of them.
    - - She wanted to be "more than them" (Brand, 136).
        
        This is also how the environment influences a person – Tuyen did not like her previous background, so she tried to find what she wanted. Thus, environment can make people change themselves and find a better fit.
  - - - This statement demonstrates Tuyen's fear of Quy while she has no fear to Binh. So, this is what Quy’s growth environment gave him, became callous and unfeeling.
- - - - During her education in Cambridge, Tara read many books about feminism, so she did not agree with her father's opinion anymore. It shows that education makes her think independently.
    - - When she attended Caroline's dance class and planned to perform, Tara and her mother tried to hide it from her father but failed in the end. As a result, she couldn't follow the rehearsed performance because her father thought the moves were too raunchy. She writes: "Only one person in that room felt real to me, and that was Dad. I searched the audience and recognized him easily. He was standing in the back, the lights from the stage flickering off his square glasses. His expression was stiff, impassive, but I could see anger in it" (Westover, 117).
        
        Fortunately, Tara did not suffer her father's control forever. At the end of the story, she said, "Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind" (Westover, 374).
        
        To this end, education has become Tara's most potent weapon to know herself and protect herself. Therefore, education helped Tara to change the identity her father handed down to her, such as woman should be in the kitchen or not wearing short skirts.
- - - - For example, Persepolis is a graphic book that describes the protagonist Marjane's life in Iran her experience of studying abroad alone in a foreign country. The Islamic Revolution took place in Marji's childhood, and she supported the King at first.
        
        One day Marjane's parents came home tired after the march against the King Shan, she said "As for me, I love the King. He was chosen by God," (Satrapi, 19).
        
        After her parents told her the story of how Shan became a King, the illusion of divine right, and the fact that her grandfather was a prince, Marjane changed her mind and realized her shortcomings "I realized I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could" (Satrapi, 22).
        
        Thus, her parents' education made her change wrong minds.
      - When she grew up, she spent a difficult and lonely life in Vienna and met her first boyfriends, Markus. Marjane did not smoke joint before dating Markus.
        
        She smoked with him, paid her tuition for Markus, and even sold hash in school after they broke up, “This is how, for love, I began my career as a drug dealer. Hadn’t I followed my mother’s advice? To give the best of myself? I was no longer a simple junkie, but my school’s official dealer,” (Satrapi, 225).
        
        At this point, Marjane decided to ignore her mother’s advice and changed her personality for love.
      - In another case, Marjane married and wanted to end that discordant marital relationship.
        
        Marjane first asked her childhood friend Farnaz for some suggestions, but Farnaz's answer shook her, "…From men's point of view, for one thing, their dicks are irresistible, and for another thing, since you are divorced, you're no longer a virgin and you have no reason to refuse them," (Satrapi, 355).
        
        Similarly, Farnaz's words made her afraid of social reality, but her grandmother's advice gave her the strength to go after what she wanted. When Marjane was confused and hesitated, she asked her grandma and said, "No but about it! … Take your time, think about it, and the day you don't want it anymore, you leave him! When a tooth is rotten, you have to pull it out!" (Satrapi, 336).
        
        As a result, family and friends may influence one's thoughts positively or negatively, just like education in school.