Child of Prophecy

The Calling
By Sungii

Sungii: Marjane... has suffered quite an amount of torture...
Naruto: In what way?
Sungii: She's heard of many gruesome stories from her friends and family that have been to jail and tortured, and more importantly... her Uncle Anoosh who passed away. It breaks my heart to see her lost in despair. She lost the one "hero" she considered in her family.
Naruto: It is painful, I've suffered quite the same experience too.
Sungii: I know! This also leads me to ask why is it that people go through this kind of torture! What do we gain out of this! It only hurts...
Naruto: Pain and suffering brings forth many different mixed emotions. It also brings to light a new perspective.
Sungii: Tell me, please. What could be positive about something like this.
Naruto: Well you're in school right now so let me give you an example you can easily reflect on.
Sungii: If it helps, sure!
Naruto: When you perform poorly on an assignment, what do you almost always do?
Sungii: Well I feel very bad about it.
Naruto: Sure, we would all but there is something else.
Sungii: I'd probably be anxious to see what I did wrong in the assignment.
Naruto: Yeah you're getting there!
Sungii: I guess I would try correcting it so that the next time another assignment similar comes I will remember what to do. Then I won't make the same mistake twice!
Naruto: Sometimes I wonder why you even ask me for help. You just solved your own question.
Sungii: ...
Naruto: Okay. When you made a mistake, you'd try hard to not make it again. Isn't that a new light? Isn't that a way of bringing optimism to a pessimistic situation? Isn't that what Marjane does in Persepolis? Does she not have a new take on certain things that happen around her?
Sungii: Yeah I guess, but in a very childish way.
Naruto: But that's the beautiful part about her, she's learning this from very young and not knowingly. She's getting back up every time she falls. She's giving life to world every time there is a loss.
Sungii: I think it makes a lot more sense when you explained it to me that way. But don't you think that you might be taking it too deep? Maybe she isn't even aware of all this!
Naruto: (laughingly)  It's okay though because you and I are kids too! And hey we're talking about this!
Sungii: Yeah we are, I guess that's why we can understand Marjane very well!