Cry, the Beloved Coutry Part 2

Let me just start off by saying this, WHOOOOOOOPPPPIE!!!!!!! IMM DDOOOOOOOONNNNNNEEEE!! YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

ok now to the book...so I gotta say, it was atleast better than Pride and Prejudice.. actually way better. I dont know if I liked any of the characters except Kumalo and Msimangu. Those two just seemed kinda immune to all the stupidness that that city inflicted on everybody else. There was one quote that really spoke to me in this book, it was while Kumalo is on the mountaintop thinking about something Msimangu said, "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they turn to loving they will find we are turned to hating." can i just say that that quote is SO TRUE!!! throughout the whole book alot of the problems would have just been solved if everyone would get along but the white people are to stupid to let that happen! when they realize what theyre doing is wrong it is gonna be too late and the blacks will attack the whites! anyway the book ended quite nicely...i kinda wish that Gertrude wouldnt have left and that the son didnt die but it all worked out. I also loved the fact that they hired someone to help them refertilize the land...

Cry, the Beloved Coutry Part 1

So I haven't gotten to far into this book but its not totally horrible. Its really descriptive in the beginning about the African land but it hasn't put me to sleep yet. From what i've gathered, its kinda alot like Nectar in a Sieve except that Cry, the Beloved Country is about Africa instead of India. It is really evident that Africa is changing when John Kumalo says, "There is a new thing growing here. Stronger than any church or chief. You will see it one day,". He is talking about the city of Johannesburg and how it is becoming less traditional and more modern. I feel like this book and Nectar in a Sieve are going to be very similar.

Nectar in a Sieve part 2

Wow this book was actually really good. It was sad at times but I liked it. It was basically a story about a girl who got married, had kids, went through a lot of hardships and then ended up living through it all. Something I loved about this book was that when no one else would take the old couple in, a poor nine year old boy did. It just goes to show that there are kind people in the world. Something that was always mentioned in every chapter was money. In fact it was spoken about in the last lines, "Do not worry, we shall manage". This is what Selvam said to his mother after she just came home with her newly adopted son.

Nectar in a Sieve part 1

So I'm actually enjoying this book so far. I'm probably about half way through and just from reading summaries about it, I thought it was going to be a sad book but its more interesting than sad. It's about an Indian girl back in the day and her life as she gets married and has kids and adapts to her new life. What's really cool is that I'm Indian. What's even cooler is that a lot of the things she does and thinks in the book I totally understand because while we might be living in America, my parents still act like they're in the village. We seriously always have dahl in the house (in fact i just had some for dinner), my mom doesnt call my dad by his name, and my parents had an arranged marriage. Even though this book is during the olden days a lot of the customs and traditions dont really change. I could go on forever about this but i my laptop's about to die so im gonna hurry this up. So something that the author said just kinda made me realize how real this book was gonna be and it was this, "It was my husband who woke me--my husband, whom I will call here Nathan, for that was his name, although in all the years of our marriage I never called him that, for it is not meet for a woman to address her husband except as "husband""
when i read that it just kinda hit me that this book was gonna be real. My own mother never calls my dad by his name...if she did, itd just be weird.