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Section 3 ( The Water Cell ): Although her parents protested every day, Marji decided that she supported the king because he was chosen by God Himself ( which was told to her by her teacher ).

Her dad tells her a story about how the king was really chosen, and it had nothing to do with God.

After the first king was chosen, it was simply passed down from father to son.

She is, of course, very excited to hear this.

Her grandfather became the king's prime minister because he was well educated, but he was mistreated to the point of becoming a communist.

She then learned from her mother that her grandfather was sent to prison.

It was there that he lived the rest of his life under pain of torture.

Marjane felt awful after hearing this and attempted to reconstruct one of her grandfather's tortures, being partially submerged in water for hours at a time, by staying in the tub for several hours.