To begin with, in the passage “Cairo: My City, My Revolution” the setting of the story is in Egypt. It talks about the rebellion that occurred on Friday, January 28 at 5:00 pm. To start off, lines 68-69 in paragraph 8 states, “We stood and we chanted our declaration of peace, ‘Selmeyya! Selmeyya’ while our comrades up front fought with the security forces.” The version of revolution the author is giving in this piece of evidence is a moderate peaceful one that involves a bit of violence. To add on, paragraph 5, lines 25-31 state, “Suddenly in the Qasr el-nil underpass among the Central Security vehicles racing to get out of town and all the men leaning over the parapet above us with stones in their hands stopped in mid-throw and yelled ‘Run! Run!’ and held off …show more content…
For example, the middle panel, panel 4, shows some struggles women face each day. According to the captions, “it hinged in the little details. To our leaders, the smallest gesture was a subject of subversion. Showing your wrist. A loud laugh. Having a Walkman. In short… everything was a pretext to arrest us.” The last panel can also add evidence to the fact that any tiny detail or gesture was considered as rebellion to the leaders. The last panel, panel 8 states, “Showing your hair or putting on makeup became logical acts of rebellion.” This shows how the leaders took any signs as an act of rebellion on behalf of the women’s