Exclamatory sentences tend to express a strong emotion.
Answer: Both authors think the Iranian regime uses fear to repress women. In reading Lolita in Tehran, the author explains that gun-toting men and women "patrol the streets to make sure that women like Sanaz wear their veils properly, do not wear makeup, do not walk in public with men who are not their fathers, brothers or husbands" (lines 19-22). The author of Persepolis 2 notes that "everything was a pretext to arrest" women.
Celebrating holidays with my family can be kind of classical and plain at the same time. Depending in whether a holiday is popular or no among mi family's relatives, mi parents decide to either celebrate it or not. The reason behind this is that my family is not religious, so we aren't really in new to celebrate anything in particular (that's religiously related). But we still celebrate some holidays such as Christmas for fun!