Not without my daughter - Displacement.

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Displacement Essay

Displacement is a state or situation where someone or something is put out of his, her or its usual or proper place or position, dislocated, dispossessed, or forced to move.

 When used in reference to people it is negative.  It is used to say someone has lost their choose or their freedom.  Displacement is not always forced.  Some people leave their country and go to another country, however, they don’t find what they expected to find.

In the film “Not without My Daughter” displacement is shown on two levels.

 On one level Betty and Matab are displaced from America when Moody leads them to think that they are going to Iran for a holiday. When they get there, however, Moody told them that they are not going back to America.  Betty feels displaced in Iran because at dinner time they sit on the floor and the women sit separately from the men.  The women gave Betty hostile looks. Also, in Iran, the women don’t have much freedom and are always under supervision from their husbands.  

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 On another level Moody also feels displaced as he is unable to get a job because he got his medical qualifications in America. His feelings of displacement become greater as his family and the community pressure him to behave controlling manner that is culturally acceptable.  

In the end of the movie Betty and Matab get away from Iran to an American embassy and Betty says “we're home.” Even though they weren’t physically home they were away from Iran and almost to America.

 The poem, “Emergration” also presents some issues to do with displacement. In “Emergration” the person came ...

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