The Party

1. The significance of the title of my chapter is that it finally states that the revolution is won and the shah is overthrown. It shows the revolutionaries joy at being a free country at last.
2. In this chapter, the author talks about all the massacres that happened after Black Friday. It also states that the Shah’s reign was through and that the people are forcing him out. Though he tries to move toward democracy, it doesn’t really work. It says that the party the people of Iran had when he left was the biggest party in Iran’s history. Jimmy Carter(president of the USA) will not house the Shah, only Anwar Al-Sadat(the president of Egypt) will give him sanctuary. In school all the children are forced to rip all pictures of the Shah out of their textbooks, and Marji gets in trouble for speaking the truth to her teacher, ”But she was the one that told us that the Shah was chosen by God!”All around Tehran, there is a strange phenomena going on. People are claiming that they did certain things and are lying about their part in the revolution. Then a childhood battle started. Marji and a few other boys were going to hurt a boy named Ramin because his father killed many people in the war, but then Marji's mother tells her to forgive others for their deeds. So the end of the chapter concludes with her forgiving Ramin for his father’s actions, the last picture depicts her staring in the mirror and telling herself to forgive other people no matter what.
3. “Black Friday” was the only new historical term given in this chapter, though there were some new characters; Anwar Al-Sadat(the president of Egypt) and Ramin(the boy Marji and her friends were going to hurt in the name of the millions killed by his father).
4. Some humorous parts of the chapter were when the Shah is trying to pick new advisors, and finds fault with each one, when the Shahs officers are saying goodbye, and when Marji's mother threatens to nail Satrapi’s ears to the wall.
5. One picture i thought was significant was the one where seven dead people are pushing the Shah out of the picture. I think it signifies the anger of the people of Iran over the dead and their need for the Shah to leave.