Homeless Bird

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Summary: The best book for young people
Review: In the book HOMELESS BIRD is talking about a girl whose name was Koly and who had a hard life. She got married when she was thirteen years old. After she got married they told her that her husband is going to die. Her mother in low didn't love her. After a few months her father in low died and she stayed by her mother in low. In their country the culture is when a women lost her husband she can't get married again. After few months her mother in low took her to one city where she left her by her self...

This was one of the best books that I have ever read in my life, this helped me to understood if one day I got married and I lost my husband what should I do. You should read this book because we don't know what is going to happen in future and you will need to understand some things for your future. If you wont to see what happened in the book after the girl stayed by herself. Just get one book and read it. The name of the book is HOMELESS BIRD and the writer of the book is Gloria Whelon.

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Summary: Homeless Bird Review
Review: It all started with an arranged marriage. The book Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan explains Indian culture and arranged marriages within the Hindu caste. A 13 year old girl, Koly, gets married and with in a few days her new husband, Hari, dies. Koly is now a widow with no future. Hari had tuberculosis, and his family knew it but they wanted him to marry Koly for her dowry. Homeless Bird, is a realistic fiction book about India in the 1970`s.
In the book, Homeless Bird, the characters and plot are very real. Koly is left to live with Hari`s family. Koly`s mother in law, Sass, is very mean to her. The conflicts between Koly and Sass, forces Koly to make some important decisions. These decisions change Koly`s life forever.
Koly has some internal conflicts like the fact that after Sass abandoned her in the city she needed to find a place to live. "I suppose part of me had known all along. The thought had been waiting like a Scorpion at the edge of my mind. Now it stung me, and I nearly cried out with the pain. There had been the letters from her brother in Delhi that she never let me see." (Page 121) She was left homeless and didn't have very much money. She couldn't afford a room or a house, and she couldn't find a job. As a result Koly needed to find a place to live and a job.
Koly has some external conflicts, Sass is mean to Koly and makes her work very hard. "Let me comb your hair and braid it for you. It was something that Chandra used to do for her maa. No. You are too clumsy. If you have time on your hands, there are pots to scrub." (Page 93) This shows that Sass doesn't want to do any thing with Koly she just wants her out of her life. This is because Sass never wanted Koly, she just wanted the money from the dowry. As a result Koly wanted to run away.
This book is full of India's traditions and customs. The theme of the book is that although sometimes your life is arranged for you, other times you have a choice and that choice could make your life the way that you want it. This shows that after all the hard work that Koly went through it paid off and she got the life that she wanted. She didn't give up she knew that if she was good and worked hard that something good would have to happen in her life. This book had a depressing beginning, but at the end it was happy. At the beginning Sass was mean to Koly and her husband died, but at the end she had got a room, and had friends. After all that she had gone though she finally had the freedom that she wanted. This is a good book to read to learn about family life in India.

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Summary: Homeless bird
Review: Koly!' you are 13 and growing every day, is time for you to get a husband, said Maa!" The book Homeless bird by Gloria Whelan is a book about a girl who gets married at an age of 13 and faces many conflicts in her life. This belongs to a genre of realistic fiction. The setting of this book was in the late 1970's in India, Varnasi. This book is really interesting book because the girl named Koly gets married at a age of 13 and faces conflicts. Do you think she will live happily after she gets married?

The three main characters of this book are koly, Rahji and sass. Koly gets married at an age of 13.Her marriage was set in a traditional way were she couldn't see her husband before marriage. Koly's parents had to give dowry to the groom's house. Her marriage was a sad one .She didn't know that his husband was suffering from flu and his parents wanted money to take him to the ganges to be bath him so they needed Dowry. At that time her sass (traditional way of calling Mother in law) was mean to her and didn't wanted koly to talk with is husband hari. Koly is happy any way because she has a friend named chandra who is hari's sister she helps her in many ways. Days passed and it was time to go to the Ganges hari sass and sassur (traditional way of calling father in law) Sass didn't like koly going with them but with hari's advice she went with them to the Ganges. The two days of their trip hari enjoyed and was active but unfortunately as for their Karma hari dies, and koly is a widow. From that day onwards starts a real turn in koly's life all sad news and conflicts the main thing is that chandra her only friend had to get married with a handsome husband and had to go to her husbands house. Her life after is so miserable .Her sassur also dies. Then after a year koly and her sass had to go to Delhi. Their koly meets a friend who is a rickshaw wallah named raji. He takes her to the widow place and helps her. Koly gets a job near Mr. Govind were she uses flower to sell, and earns money. One day raji asks koly will you marry me koly says yes but on one condition I want to marry you after one month. This is the end were it goes it lastly the homeless bird flying back to its home.

In this book koly faces an external conflict, which is after a couple months of their marriage hari dies. She suffers doing all work in her house and she doesn't like living under her sass's orders. EX: When she didn't listen to her sass for a reason her sass was mad of her. PG, 97-101.This above example shows that she is mad and she is sick and tired of doing work. She feels this way because her sass is making her work day and night and treating very badly, so she doesn't like living under her orders. As a result Koly gets rid of her sass in Delhi and lives a happy life there.

Koly has an internal conflict also, which is whether to run away or stay in the mehtas house. One day I will run away "I said. No! You must never do that why should you go, who will take care of you? This conversation shows that koly wants to run away but sass is mean to her only friend chandra. Pg no, 87. Kola is sad because she can't decide whether to run away or stay. If she stays she has to listen to her sass and if she runs away she doesn't have money to find a home. As a result of koly running away or staying at last she runs away and lives a happy life.

The author's message about freedom is that, if you think to seek freedom there is nothing that can stop you to seek freedom. When koly thought to run away she didn't because she didn't have money but she knew that she can and she did and her dream came through. The author's comment is really a great example that applies to every body in the world. The author's comment is right I agree with it because it really happens to people. This book is a great and interesting book to read I rate it has 10/10 because the book was neatly returned it best describes life style in India and their Tradition it is a good experience reading it.

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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Koly's family doesn't have very much money to buy food with. To her parents, one less person at the dinner table is better. Koly is the right age to be married. As the days go by Koly's parents find a husband for her tomarry and live with. Now that Koly has gone to live with Hari, her family is right back on track. While living with Hari, Koly finds out the only reason the family decided to takeher in was because Hari is very sick and the money Koly was to give them would help Hari to get better.
Now Hari is dead from the sickness and Koly is a widow with only her sister-in-law as her only friend. when her sister-in-law leaves to be married and her husband and sassur dead Koly has to learn to live with her mean sass. See how she survives.
This book has a very great story attached to it. Homeless Bird takes you on a journey that you will never forget. If you start reading this book, beware because you may never want to putit down.if you like realistic fiction books then you will definitely love Homeless Bird.


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Summary: traditional view
Review: The homeless bird is about an only daughter in a family named Koly . She is thirteen years old and got married to someone she doesn't know or heard about.
The person she got married to was suffering from flu. And they had to take him to Varanasi a holy city in India so he will get better, but he died at varanasi because the flu was getting worst every day .Her sass [mother in law] hated, and always scolded Her to do her house work. Sass has her husband who is Koly's sassur [father in law]
But he liked Koly so much that he sometimes taught her to read, because she doesn't go to school. But later he died. According to the tradition of India, a girl who has lost her husband will never get married or return to her parent again.
Will she ever gets married ? will she ever return to her parent? If she gets married is her husband going to die ?To know the answers to this questions read the homeless Bird.
The Homeless Bird is my favorite book because it has lot of details about the
Experiences of life. The homeless bird is a good book for teenagers to read especially girls, because it talks about some experiences a girl go through during her teenage
Age.

Rating:
Summary: traditional view
Review: The homeless bird is about an only daughter in a family named Koly . She is thirteen years old and got married to someone she doesn't know or heard about.
The person she got married to was suffering from flu. And they had to take him to Varanasi a holy city in India so he will get better, but he died at varanasi because the flu was getting worst every day .Her sass [mother in law] hated, and always scolded Her to do her house work. Sass has her husband who is Koly's sassur [father in law]
But he liked Koly so much that he sometimes taught her to read, because she doesn't go to school. But later he died. According to the tradition of India, a girl who has lost her husband will never get married or return to her parent again.
Will she ever gets married ? will she ever return to her parent? If she gets married is her husband going to die ?To know the answers to this questions read the homeless Bird.
The Homeless Bird is my favorite book because it has lot of details about the
Experiences of life. The homeless bird is a good book for teenagers to read especially girls, because it talks about some experiences a girl go through during her teenage
Age.

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Summary: The best book I have ever read!
Review: this book is the best book i have ever read! the author is such a magnificent writer! finished this book in about an hour..easy to read and very enjoyable..this book is both heartwarming, sweet, sad, nd a happy book about a girl who gets abandoned by her mother-in-law.

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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: This is a wonderful book which I have read over and over. It's so hopeful and compelling, and once you've picked it up, it's extremely hard to set it down.

Koly is thirteen years old when her parents decide to arrange her marriage. In India, this is not a matter of love, but of money. When a groom is found, Koly is taken away from her home forever to marry a man she has never met. However, she never finds out whether she would have grown to love him--he dies soon after their marriage. Living with her harsh, bitter sass (mother-in-law), her sad, tired sassur (father-in-law), and her lively sister-in-law, Chandra, is difficult. Finally, she is left to fend for herself in a huge town with no one she knows. Can she turn her fate around and make a life for herself?

A beautifully told tale with wonderful style, an intense plot, and just a hint of romance. Definitely a keeper.