Friday, July 1, 2011

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson

This was a very interesting story of a family in Nigeria and how they live. It started out with the mother finding out that the father was sleeping with another woman. When the father moves out the mother, daughter and son have to move with the mother’s family. The grandfather is a Muslim who wants to be a petroleum engineer. The Family is African American.
During the story the mother starts dating a white man. The son loses his ability to go to school and gets shot by local boys whom he later joins. The daughter starts her education with her grandmother to be a midwife (birth attendant). It is an interesting story that causes you to think a little bit about how the world is today and how we treat the people in other countries. The kinds of things that are told about in this story still happen.
It tells of the way the petroleum companies hired police to go in and kill whole villages. One boy in the story had lost his whole village and was living with the grandfather who was watching over him. I found the story to be very interesting and thought provoking.

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