They need to understand the importance of human rights and how rights are violated. The events in this book are realistic, and it is a good tool to teach students about the world. This ending was dark and left me feeling conflicted. It was troubling to read how she was rejected by her parents and married off against her will. Sadira pays the ultimate price for her identity, but Farrin's fate also made my stomach twist. The girls are beaten, tortured and called deviants. However, when the pair were arrested, the plot devolved into a very different story. Their love flourished even when everything else in their lives stood against it, which is a powerful message. I also appreciated how Farrin and Sadira's relationship developed over the course of the book. It aptly demonstrates life under a repressive regime and how government control creeps into every facet of ordinary people's lives. There are a lot of positive points about this book. Sadira is executed and Farrin escapes and goes into exile, only to find her parents have married her off to a much older man. Unfortunately, they are caught and arrested. She meets Sadira at her school and the two quickly fall in love. The main character Farrin lives in Iran, under a repressive government. Like the author's other books, it offers an excellent overview of life for young people in another part of the world. Moon at Nine is based on the life of a real woman interviewed by Deborah Ellis. However, after reading the book and carefully considering it, I'm still not sure what to do with it. None of the other books in this literature circle focus on gay rights, and I am eager to improve representation by including LGBTQ characters.
The book focuses on discrimination faced by two girls who fall in love in Iran.
Our school inherited a number of copies and my principal thought they might be a good fit in our grade seven human rights literature circle. 10 July 2019 / LGBTQ / Human Rights / Young Adult Books Moon at NineĮarlier this year I was asked to read Moon at Nine, written by Deborah Ellis.
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