Tevin Hamilton

English 2400-Section D049

Prof. Sean Scanlan

Oct 6, 2022

Coffeehouse#2

Indoctrination

The chapter “Down with the King” portrays how children might perceive the current king of the country and allows the readers to gain insight into the fact that in school kids are being taught that they should love the king and that he is someone who has been chosen by good. This brings a much more introspective view in the chapter much earlier in the story where the soldier came in and took control of the school, the chapter down with the king allows you to see that the reason for controlling the school wasn’t to introduce and enforce superficial things like the headdress and the clothing the people but instead allow so that they can influence the young impressionable mind of the kid and put indoctrinate the children in believing what the king wants them to believe. The line that best illustrates the undertone of why the king took control of the school is when a young Marjane says to her father, “I love the king, He was chosen by God,” after saying this line Marjane tells her that what her teacher has been teaching, this was while her parents were discussing the protest against the king rule talking about the progress that has been made.  It was only after Marjane’s father explains to her that the king wasn’t chosen by God and how the current king came to do that Marjane starts to move away from this idea. It was in this chapter you were shown the true repercussions of something that happen in the first few chapters because while Marjane’s parent and the parent are out protesting against the king’s rule their children are being taught to love the king and almost in a sense worship him as he is some who God chose to rule.