-In the chapter the F-14's it talks about the war between Iran and Baghdad. It starts off by the Iraqis attacking Iran and Marjane and her father experiencing it. Somehow you can see and feel that Marjanes mother and father have lost hope in the war. However Marjane herself has not given up, in fact she believes in hope so strongly that she was encouraging her father to fight in the war, although he knows that that was something he would not do. Marjane was defeated by the fact of her father not being Patriotic that she got so upset until she hears Iran's national anthem, suddenly you see that the family feels a sense of hope as they stand there with one hand on their heart. Marjane and her father look as though the war might be over with tears streaming down both of their cheeks, however the mom with no tears looks as though it's too good to be true it seems like she trying to take it all in at once. After the emotional anthem they also find out that Iran has bombed Baghdad and once again Marjane and her father begin to rejoice. The reason for the Anthem being played was that the Iranians made a deal that they would attack, if the president allowed the anthem to be played. However Marjane was given some bad news that one of her friends Paradisse's father had past away fighting for Iran during the bombing. I think that this chapter had allot to offer symbolically because it had a few hidden messages such as the moms lack of emotion.

- One of the pictures from the chapter really stood out to me which was the picture of the Satrapi Family standing while listening to the national anthem, i thought it was very clever how she showed the emotions on each of her families faces. but it also was interesting because it was very realistic and emotional for a little girl to endure.

- New characters introduced were Paradisse an girl that goes to Marjanes school also a girl whose father died while fighting for Iran


-Some things that i found very funny was when Marjane figured out that the Iraqis bombed Iran and she shouted Something i don't know if i can repeat.However i found it funny because she was so young and she knew exactly what was going on and she was very angry. She acted like an adult would react to that situation.