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Sara
I know this is a bit late, hopefully this helps someone else.
1) Did anyone else wonder what happened to the stepmother, Omi?
2) Was anyone disappointed by the author's misuse of the phrase "begs the question"?
3) Why did the author not explore the possibility of Jaya finding Amisha's written stories?
4) How could a simple, ill educated girl from a small village have enough English to have a relationship with a soldier from the British Army and yet she can't write one word of it?
5) There is this whole deal about Stephen teaching Amisha to speak English - so how are they communicating now? Are we supposed to believe that a newly-arrived British soldier is fluent in Hindi?
6) In spite of the possible dishonour of being seen to speak publicly to one another, a soldier and the grandmother introduce themselves as “Stephen” and Amisha”. In the 1940s? Really?
7) It is unbelievable that Amisha and the British officer could spend hours alone in the school garden. Didn’t he have a job to do? Didn’t all the other teachers notice the two of them alone?
8) Through the telling of her grandmother's story, can Jaya find healing?
9) Did you want to know more about Lena’s half brothers? Why did they stay away from their father? What did they know, or not know? Why were they so distant from Lena?
10) Why can’t they get the education they want in India, which is a rapidly modernising country? Surely it would be a better story to be transforming some of the Indian attitudes towards caste rather than sweep them halfway across the world to a better new life in the Land of the Free?
11) What does it say of us as a human race when we push others down for our own needs?
12) Does it accomplish the intended goal or simply give rise to a pattern of behavior that can never be broken?
13) What if tradition is just an excuse to keep things as they always have been?
14) What if we all stood equal in one another’s eyes and felt pride at our reflection?
15) The reader also has to consider the limitations/cages humans put on ourselves for a variety of reasons. How much of a cage is out of our control? How much is within our control?
16) What is our destiny, what gifts we have been given, and are we living our lives with gratitude?
17) If Jaya had never been to India before, how did she dare take a rickshaw from the airport and not a taxi?
18) If the house Jaya stayed at in the village had Wi-Fi (she could post to blog using laptop in bed), the why did she take a rickshaw to an Internet Cafe for Internet service?
1) Did anyone else wonder what happened to the stepmother, Omi?
2) Was anyone disappointed by the author's misuse of the phrase "begs the question"?
3) Why did the author not explore the possibility of Jaya finding Amisha's written stories?
4) How could a simple, ill educated girl from a small village have enough English to have a relationship with a soldier from the British Army and yet she can't write one word of it?
5) There is this whole deal about Stephen teaching Amisha to speak English - so how are they communicating now? Are we supposed to believe that a newly-arrived British soldier is fluent in Hindi?
6) In spite of the possible dishonour of being seen to speak publicly to one another, a soldier and the grandmother introduce themselves as “Stephen” and Amisha”. In the 1940s? Really?
7) It is unbelievable that Amisha and the British officer could spend hours alone in the school garden. Didn’t he have a job to do? Didn’t all the other teachers notice the two of them alone?
8) Through the telling of her grandmother's story, can Jaya find healing?
9) Did you want to know more about Lena’s half brothers? Why did they stay away from their father? What did they know, or not know? Why were they so distant from Lena?
10) Why can’t they get the education they want in India, which is a rapidly modernising country? Surely it would be a better story to be transforming some of the Indian attitudes towards caste rather than sweep them halfway across the world to a better new life in the Land of the Free?
11) What does it say of us as a human race when we push others down for our own needs?
12) Does it accomplish the intended goal or simply give rise to a pattern of behavior that can never be broken?
13) What if tradition is just an excuse to keep things as they always have been?
14) What if we all stood equal in one another’s eyes and felt pride at our reflection?
15) The reader also has to consider the limitations/cages humans put on ourselves for a variety of reasons. How much of a cage is out of our control? How much is within our control?
16) What is our destiny, what gifts we have been given, and are we living our lives with gratitude?
17) If Jaya had never been to India before, how did she dare take a rickshaw from the airport and not a taxi?
18) If the house Jaya stayed at in the village had Wi-Fi (she could post to blog using laptop in bed), the why did she take a rickshaw to an Internet Cafe for Internet service?
Cheryl Ballard
I did not find any in my Kindle edition.
Lee
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