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Summary: Not Another One, God When Will It Stop?
Review: How many more books are we going to have to read with such a dull plot that tries to teach us aout racism? I mean, come on! It's already been nailed into my head, whrewe did all the literature go? My teacher said it was s a good book, yet my rwading level is higher than hers. This book was unrealistic, in the sense that Frikkie and Tengo would never be friends concerning the circumstances and wow, what a great plot. This was one of the most pointless, time-wadting books I have evr read. It was just like any other, avergae books are all the same, it seems that anyone could actually read tis book and like in the first place, without being forced to read it for school...
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Summary: take this book to a higher level
Review: Too understand this book all you have to do is take it to a higher level...Waiting for the Rain, i think, is a metaphor that means...hope of change... because waiting is like hoping and the rain is a change from hot sunny, dry days...... "Waiting for the Rain" takes place on a South African veld and in the town of Johannesburg. The book takes place in the early 1900's. Three quarters of the book takes place in Johannesburg, and one quarter on the Oom Koo's farm. The farm has a field that is a brownish yellow because of no rain. The days are usually hot with blue skies. There is a stream that runs down the side of the farm with trees around it soaking up the streams' fresh, cool water. There are cows in the barn waiting to be milked at 4. There's a large house for the white people and a small hut for the black people. In Johannesburg, there are office buildings and malls. Not many skyscrapers, but a lot of large houses with a pool. The schools are for white people only, and black people only, no mixes. Tengo's internal conflict was that he was, and wanted to be friends with Frikkie. His external conflict was that he wanted freedom. He knows now what freedom is because he has seen what he could have and people have helped him see that the white people get the larger houses, more money, and better schools. When he is near the church he begins get involved. He hurls a rock at the white soldiers. He does it again and again until someone shoots a comrade. Then they think he shoot their comrade. So, Tengo decides to run, as he is running he can feel the shoots hitting the ground by his feet. He runs faster until he reaches a car wreckage site. There he rests in a small shack. If Tengo wants freedom, which means that he will have to fight Frikkie, his friend.
Conflict:
Tengo and Frikkie are still waiting for the rain. They are waiting for their lives to start or they are waiting and hoping for change.
External
Racism
Internal
Life is unfair The conflict is not resolved. There isn't really an ending either. The story doesn't end by Frikkie and Tengo talking about how it's going in their lives, and Frikkie returning safely to the army camp and Tengo returning to his Aunts house. The story doesn't end. As Tengo grew older he wanted to learn, by learning, he saw that there was something wrong and unfair about his and fellow Africans. Why do the white people have all the big farms, big meals, big houses and we barely get by with one or two meals if were lucky. In the beginning of "Waiting for the Rain", Tengo was obedient to his master who told him what to do. In the middle of the book, Tengo developed the need of knowledge and then eventually knowledge. One day Tengo saw that Frikkie's sister, who was younger than Tengo, could read a lot better then him. This made Tengo jealous and wanted to learn more. When he went off to Johannesburg to go to school. There he learned a great deal of information and was a good student. If he kept it up, he was going to go to college in the USA. This all changed by the end of the book. Tengo had and has confusion of life and the future. When Joseph told Tengo about how he could help fight back it made Tengo to start thinking. Tengo couldn't go to school because the other students were protesting. Then Tengo almost kills his friend, Frikkie. Then they go on with their own lives confused.
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Summary: Color Means Nothing
Review: This book starts out on a farm. Frikkie and Tengo where good friends. A couple years later, Tengo started to want an education. You see, though, he's black. In that time in South Africa black people were treated like slaves. Sometimes they had to work as servants. It's also hard for him to get an education, because his family is poor. So will Tengo get an education? Will something else happen in his life? Read this book and find out!
I really didn't like this book because it was dull and more of a research type book. Although sometimes it was exciting. Mostly it was boring. That is what I think about the book.
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Summary: waiting for the FIGHT
Review: To me, this book wasn't a total bright book as my teacher said it would be. Sheila Gordon proclaims Frikkie and Tengo as if they're TRASH. They wouldn't be true friends in real life, in a situation like this. Not only did Sheila make Tengo look bad, but he made himself look bad. He seemed very greedy and situated into his life, as if he wasn't existing. He took things for granted.
If you're going to buy this book, make sure you buy an Afrikaans dictionary, also. :)
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Summary: Waiting for the Rain
Review: This is the best book of the decade on pregidence. It will show how not only another culture lives but shows what people went through. I think some of the characters should have been talked about more.Ex-Elejah. I think this book should win an award for best childrens fiction book on any country.
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Summary: This book was terrible! DONT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!
Review: This book was so bad, I can't stand even giving it one star. This book goes on and on and on and on about nothing except for apartheid. But if you ask me... it's about farming and a friendship that ends. I can't believe that people actully enjoy this book because it says noting and the end is REALLY stupid!
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Summary: waiting for the rain
Review: i sort of liked this book...i mean it was good, but a lot of it i didnt understand...it taught me a lot of valuable lessons...but i thought it was very confusing...just by the title..but i would reccomened this book
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Summary: Waiting For The Rain
Review: This book is fun, exciting book about how two children have been friends since birth. One boy named Frikkie comes to his uncles farm every chance he gets, when he grows up he is going to own it. Tengo works on Frikkie's uncles farm all year long. This is a time when racism is still very big but the children do not understand that because they are to young. The boys eventually find there life in crisis. Frikkie enters in the army and abaondones the farm life for school, and struggles in the apartheid. Can they sustain their friendship even in the apartheid and there different life styles?
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Summary: My view on "Waiting Fot The Rain"
Review: "Waiting For the Rain" was just as exciting as sitting on a lawn chair waiting for the rain to come. This story was on one level of action the entire book. All they talked about was people on a farm. There really wasn't any action until the end, but even that wasn't exciting to me. The theme of the story was everyone should be treated equally. In the book the blacks were treated unfairly; an example of this treatment was when the black children couldn't go to school, just because of the color of their skin. Reading this book upset me to see how the blacks were treated. It was unfair and wrong. This book was boring, but people can learn a great lesson reading it.
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Summary: this book sux
Review: This book is very boring because there is no action so the book just drags on forever! There is no explaining the suckyness of this book. Maybe if they would put more deep characters into the book it would be better. And whats with the names? Tengo? Thats a spanish word. And frikkie? Who would ever name there son frikkie! I would shot my parents if they named me that. but it isnt just the names. The book makes all white people out to be bad people. The story also needs more action in it. How could you make a whole book about learning and have any teenager say that it's a good book! In all, i didn't like the book at all. But remember, its only my opinion.
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