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Summary: A story of two boy's friendship and how apartheid ends it.
Review: Waiting for the Rain was the story of two boy's friendship. Tengo and Frikkie's friendship starts when they are young and don't have a care in the world. Sadly, their friendship ends when the two of them learn of apartheid. Tengo always dreamed of getting an education; Frikkie always wanted to run his uncle's farm. Carefree Frikkie joined the army; Tengo moved in with his aunt in Johannesburg to get a proper schooling. Apartheir tears up both of their dreams. This book taught me that people risk their lives for freedom. It started off slow; but, as I read towards the end, I wanted to read more and more. The book ended so suddenly that I never found out what happened to both Tengo and Frikkie.
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Summary: Depriving the Colored
Review: Is it right to discriminate someone just because of the color of their skin? Right or not, this has been going on in South Africa. The book, Waiting for the Rain, by Sheila Gordon, gives a good perspective on how the blacks were treated in Africa. The protagonist is a black boy, named Tengo, who lives on a farm with his parents under the owner Oom Koos. Tengo becomes friends with Oom Koo's nephew Frikkie. Tengo and Frikkie get along really well, until they get older and start to understand the racial discrimination of the blacks in South Africa. Tengo really enjoys to learn and thrives to see the world. When he moves to Johannesburg with his cousin Joseph to go to school, he learns a lot more than he bargained for. Tengo had to go through many struggles in his life while in the city. He learned how life truly was for blacks and how much the whites really hated them and that things were all segregated. He finally was able to decide in the end of the book what he wanted to do in life. I really enjoyed the end of the book. I liked how the author had the last meeting with Tengo and Frikkie, and how they were able to talk one last time. I also loved how the book ended and how it kept u thinking. Overall, I think book was well written and told the lifestyles of blacks in South Africa well. The book was a little below the grade level it was given. I recommend this book to people who enjoy learning about other countries and apartheid. It gives a good perspective and insight on how life was for the blacks.
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Summary: An ok book..
Review: It wasn't really that good of a book. It had is ups and downs. Frikkie was the main person in the book but then it became tengo who was the main person. It was intresting though. Tengo was a black boy and Frikkie was a white boy who grow up as friends but soon as the war starts they are separted by trust and friendship. You will find out more as you read the book. So I give it a 3 out of 5 it was ok but it had some boring parts along the way.
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Summary: A Hard Look at Prejudice
Review: Waiting for the Rain, an historical fiction novel by Sheila Gordon, is a story about prejudice that will shock you. It takes place during the 1950s in the bustling cities and grassy planes of South Africa. At this time, the country is filled with racial prejudice. The two main characters, Tengo and Frikkie, are childhood friends; however, one of them is white and the other is black.
Tengo and Frikkie soon find that they are fighting on opposite sides in this racial battle. Tengo dedicates himself to a life of change, and Frikkie joins an army that attempts to keep life the way it has always been. The reader will love the suspense created by their changing relationship. Also, the reader will enjoy the detailed language the author uses to describe the setting. Everyone with a heart will love this book and be driven to learn more about this period in time.
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Summary: A Serious and Compelling Novel
Review: WAITING For The Rain is a good book because it is about the very serious matter of apartheid. This story takes place in South Africa, in this story there are two friends one Frikkie a white boy who's uncle owns a farm the other Tengo a black boy who works on the farm. Frikkie is a nice boy who does not discriminate against blacks. He lives in the city, he comes to see his uncle and to visit his good friend Tengo. Frikkie and Tengo love to play together. Frikkie Has lived on the farm his whole life, so he does not know much of apartheid and discrimination. Tengo urns to learn and go to school which is something that Frikkie takes for granted. Tengo has some text books but he has read them all over and over. Even though Tengo does not go to school or get to learn much you can tell he is very smart. Then something happens to Tengo, his cousin who lives out side the city comes to visit. His cousin tells Tengo about apartheid and Tengo is shocked that something that unfair and horrible existed. I am not going to give away the story, so you will have to find out what happens to their friendship. I liked this book very much because it shows what apartheid can do to a friendship, and how a friend ship can exist through adversity. I recommend this book to somebody who is looking for a serious read.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I think it was a very intresting book. It showed how it was back in Africa and how things were. Frikkie was a good friend to Tengo untill the war started and then it was over with thier friendship. They never saw each other since. I will give it a 4 out of a 5. It was a good book but not as good as some of the others. Still worth reading and to tell people about to learn how Africa was back then. Its very important to treat people with respect no matter what color they are.
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Summary: Waiting For The Rain is a great book for all!
Review: Waiting For The Rain is a great and fun book to read. The book is about a black boy named Tengo and a white boy named Frikkie who becomes best friends, but soon find out that they are totally different from each other. I really enjoyed the book, but it was like a Lord of the Rings type of moive. When I finished it, I was like ok... what happens next. IT JUST ENDED!!! I think the author should have made the story longer or at least made a sequal to it.
All in all the book was great, the author really went dept in the racial part between blacks and whites. When Tengo was pushed around by the police and shoved to the ground for doing nothing, it made me mad that people would do this to other human beings It was a sad story, but some parts will keep you at the edge of your seat. I really enjoyed the part when Tengo was rebelling against the police and throwing rocks at them. If I would change anything, I would have made the book a little bit longer and more action to it, becuase some parts of the book was really boring.
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Summary: Waiting for a sequel, not the rain.
Review: Waiting for the rain is an informative book about South Africa. Two friends go their sepparate ways only to find life was much easier on the farm. Waiting for the Rain is a great story that is slow to start, but the ending will keep you glued to your seat. Although the book is somewhat predictable, it is a rare and wonderful find.
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Summary: Okey Dokey...I Guess
Review: Waiting For the Rain was an interesting and factual book that gave me a lot of knowledge about the apartheid. After a while though I thought that the book dragged on and did not stay on topic. Soon, Frikkie was no longer a main character and the book focused on Tengo and how he struggled with the harsh laws of the apartheid. I would recommend this book if you are interested in history and the apartheid, this is the right book for you.
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Summary: Waiting for the Rain
Review: The book Waiting For The Rain, by Shelia Gordon, is a so-so book. I found it helpful to see what was actually going on in South Africa during the Apartheid Movements, and of how people actually treated each other, even this was only based on reality, not something that actually happened with the real characters. I found that Tengo, the African farm-boy did not have it as badly as the book makes it out to be. Frikkie, the kleinbass, is foolish. I found the book rather dull, as well, because in the beginning of the book, it talks equally about Frikkie and Tengo. In the middle, all it is is Tengo and his boring little life in the outskirts of Johannesburg. How he goes to school everyday and studies with a girl that he supposedly likes. I think that the author should have taken into consideration that we would've liked to see what trials and tribulations Frikkie was going through at the crucial stages in his life, instead of hearing about Tengo and his dull existence as a Black African throughout the whole 200 or 300-something pages of the book.
Overall - (10/10) 5/10
Content- (10/10) 3/10
(I really enjoyed the ending, seeing Frikkie and Tengo coming to terms with each other. I would have liked to see Frikkie understand about slavery and Black African life a little more, however.)
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