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Firoozeh’s classmate at Berkeley, fiancé, and later husband, François Dumas comes from a wealthy, worldly Catholic family that is nonetheless appalled when he marries an Iranian woman. François, like Firoozeh, is an adventurous, open-minded person, and over the course of the book he tries many new foods and travels to many new places alongside Firoozeh. In part because he was raised in a wealthier household than Firoozeh, he exoticizes and fetishizes the rugged, “authentic” outdoors, where Firoozeh almost always prefers air conditioning and bug spray.
François Dumas Quotes in Funny in Farsi
The Funny in Farsi quotes below are all either spoken by François Dumas or refer to François Dumas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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Once my mother realized that I wanted to marry François, she said, "He will be like a third son to me," and wiped the tears off her face. At that very moment, my mother threw aside everything she and her generation knew about marriage and entered a new world where daughters select their own husbands. She became a pioneer.
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Chapter 25
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The girl we had selected was undoubtedly the underdog. She was quite overweight, she was the least physically attractive, and she had the smallest cheering section. She was, however, the most articulate.
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Chapter 26
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My husband has since taken the situation into his own hands, hiding all our screwdrivers and hammers before my parents visit.
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François Dumas Quotes in Funny in Farsi
The Funny in Farsi quotes below are all either spoken by François Dumas or refer to François Dumas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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Once my mother realized that I wanted to marry François, she said, "He will be like a third son to me," and wiped the tears off her face. At that very moment, my mother threw aside everything she and her generation knew about marriage and entered a new world where daughters select their own husbands. She became a pioneer.
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Chapter 25
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The girl we had selected was undoubtedly the underdog. She was quite overweight, she was the least physically attractive, and she had the smallest cheering section. She was, however, the most articulate.
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Chapter 26
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My husband has since taken the situation into his own hands, hiding all our screwdrivers and hammers before my parents visit.
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