Also this book has taught me that whoever you are, there is still a chance that you can do something you want, or your dreams. For example, the main character manages to get to the city, meeting nice people, who one becomes his master in making or fixing watches. This book has taught me a few important things, counting my blessings and pursuing my dreams. I feel that I should read more to improve my command of English language.
Monday, January 17, 2011
The book that I have selected is "Village By The Sea" written by Anita Desai. This book was actually my Literature text last year, and I have chosen this book because it is actually one of the longer books that I have actually read, and understood, It was probably the book which also started my interest in reading books. Before that I thought books were always boring, but this book proved me wrong. Also, this book portrays how the poor live. For example one of the book's main character, and his family lives in poverty in the villages along India's coast. Due to their parents not being able earn money, the children themselves have to go out to work for money to buy everyday necessities but have no extra to indulge in other things, compared to us here in Singapore where most of use have a comfortable life. They also have to go to the beach to find food for their meals sometimes also. Whereas here in Singapore, we could just get it from the Supermarket.
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I feel that the book "Village By The Sea" is a great book to read as it applies "Show not Tell". Many of the things are realistically shown in the book, the descriptions and the characterisations are really welll done. The story talks about a boy travelling alone just to make ends meet. He travelled a long distance across India, luckily he met a kind old watchmaker than gave him a good job.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Justin where he said "Due to their parents not being able earn money, the children themselves have to go out to work for money to buy everyday necessities but have no extra to indulge in other things, compared to us here in Singapore where most of use have a comfortable life. " This phrase tells us that we can never understand the real pain within poverty as Singapore's economy is quite good. We have all been living great lives, having good food on the table almost everyday. Food like hamburgers are very rare in the third world countries but to us, we can eat it for the three meals every day. This will cause us to be fat though.