Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Explain the simile.

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.

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A revolution must always be in movement gathering more and more forward movement. The metaphor uses a bicycle wheel to show how a revolution must keep moving, it must keep gathering speed for a situation to go anywhere.

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