Marji goes through her childhood not telling people of her true dreams of being a profit, she lies to her parents and tells them that she "wants to be a doctor" (page 9 panel 2) …show more content…
When she is expelled and forced to go to a new school, she gets upset with her teacher because she's leaving out the truth while talking about the amount of political prisoners by saying there are none when in reality, there are an abundance of people still being held in prison. Marji gets upset at the lack of truth and says "how dare you lie to us like that?" (page 144 panel 5). When her teacher refrains from telling Marji’s class the real amount of political prisoners, Marji takes a stand against her teacher and gets lots of support from her fellow classmates as you can see when they clap for her (page 144 panel 6). Marji rebels against people who leave out the truth because she needs to know the truth herself. When Marji figures out the injustice that people do not always tell the truth, she figures out a way to show her