Quote Responce #14.

I could not put the book down. Ater reading just a few pages I was convinced that all history should be written from the eyes of a child.
Quote: At the top of the page reads "That was my last meeting with my beloved Anoosh." Below this a newspaper shows the picture of Anoosh with the headline reading "Russian Spy Executed". The second frame has yound Marjane lying on her bed with tears saying "Everything Will be Alright......" The third frame has God entering the picture asking "Marji What Seems to be the Problem?" This frame also shows Marji lying on her bed still crying this time with an angry expression on her face. The fourth frame has Marji standing on her bed shouting at God "Shut up, you! get outof my life!!! I Never want to see you again!" the fifith and final frame is a full face shot of Marji still on her bed shouting at God in a final gesture to "get out!" (Satrapi, 70)
This act of severing her long loving relationship to God was the begining of the end of childhood Satrapi. The dissallusionment of losing her beloved Anoosh needed to be explained and the explanation she had was that God let him die. This is a natural reaction to tragedy that many people suffer. I remember when my mother passed. I was reasonably young and my faith in God was severly shaken. The importance of this is that from that moment on was unable to look at the world with the kind of wide eyed inthusiasm that children posess.
I look forward to reading the rest of the book to see if my theory pans out that Satrapi may have lost or at least started the process of losing that child like perspective of the world.