What does Pardisse describe in her paper? How does Marji try to console her friend?What is Pardisse’s response? What does Marji learn from this experience?

The teacher is not impressed with Marji's essay and instead calls on Pardisse to read her essay. In that essay, Pardisse writes of how she has promised to take care of her mother and little brother after her father’s death. After class, Marjane tells Pardisse that her father is a true hero. Pardisse tells her, “I wish he were alive and in jail rather than dead and a hero.”