Land of my childhood

In this second term, I’m going to do the first writing about this book. It didn’t wake me up lots of feelings, I don’t know why but I didn’t like it a lot.

It is composed by some South Asia stories. They are very short and summarized, and it could be the cause that I didn’t like.

I’m going to explain the summary of one of these stories, called “The Intelligence of Wild Things”. I think it’s the most interesting and that I learnt more. This story talks about a family living in Calcutta. The father had died and there was only the mother and her two children, a boy and a girl. This boy wasn’t like the others, because he liked staying at home, listening his mother’s stories and cooking in the kitchen. One day, when they grew up, the boy had received a letter from America saying that he had a place in one college there. He didn’t want to go there because he loved his mum, but she said that the bad situation in Calcutta would be worse day by day.

Some years later, they were separated. The mother was in Calcutta, the girl was in California with her husband and the boy was in the other side of USA. The girl went to visit her mum because she was getting older. The mother was very bad and sad because she hadn’t seen her child for years, and the only thing she wanted before she died, was seeing her children together in Calcutta.

Some words I have learnt in these stories are:

prawns
afford
muddy
sugar canes
shrugged
stepmother
narrow
bare
devil
spit
wild
whistle
mouthful
weak
kidneys