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Andrea Hirata, the author wrote it in a good descriptive way. Unfortunately, I get bored.

It talks about the education of students in remote area. An education for the poor, but the teachers teach that they don't have to feel shame due to their lack of financial status.

To be confident. To stand up. To express. To actualize.

It is a good topic, but I somehow get distracted with the way the author use the Latin names of plants. I feel it isn't a smoothly moving. How he associated a lot of things with certain figure which of course well-known worlwide but not the common ones, which makes me start to guess whether it is really a story of the people in remote area.

I have been to remote area, though only three districts. Currently, they can use television decoder to watch national and international television stations. But of course, the people in villages don't watch the international ones due to the language barrier. And it is happening now, how about (more or less) two decades ago, which is somehow be the current time of the story. Thus, I can't feel satisfied with this book. ]]>