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Summary: A must read book, great for all ages.
Review: I think waiting for the rain is a fabulous book. It simplifies what news stands are saying about South Africa and its struggles through and after apartheid. Two boys, one black and one white are best friends until racist grownups shatter their friendship just because the color of ones skin. Its shows that life should be when the two boys were friends, not old enough or intreiged to care about ones color. I think the book is outstanding in the way the two boys after being brainwashed can come back to rejoin a friendship. Through the book you can see as the boys move apart to their seperate ways as they hear of the horrible ways of apartheid and the differences that surrounded them.
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Summary: I thought it was good but could have had a better ending.
Review: The book showed a good portrayal of apartheid. racial tensions between to longtime friends eventually shows when they both turn into enemies.
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Summary: Covers a seriuos topic
Review: I think that this is a great book for highschoolers to read. It covers an important topic that everybody should be aware and educated about. The author presented the topic so people can understand what aparteid was like for both sides. Some parts were unealistic and the ending was too predictable but overall it was a very well written piece of literature
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Summary: An okay book
Review: Waiting for the rain didn't really grab my attention. It was slow and didn't really get interesting until it was almost over. If it would have had more to t, it would have been better.
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Summary: Great book that expresses realism and problems of apartheid.
Review: Fricke, a white boy and Tengo, a black one, had been best friends since they had been babies, suffered a problem that made them separate. The problem was that Tengo had realized what apartheid was and thought that Frickie had the fault because he was white. Along the book, there are many characters appearing. Some of the characters were good influence to Frickie and Tengo, and others were of bad ones. There are also many places the story takes place, but there are mainly four important. The farm, were they started and stopped talking to follow their dreams; the university were Tengo studied; Tengo's house in the city; and Frickies house. The theme of the story is very obvious since the beginning of it. In the first few pages, you can realize that something is going to happen to the friends. From this point to the ending of the story there are many obvious and un-obvious parts were you can see that the theme is about apartheid. Frickie and Tengo, best friends until they started realizing how the color of the skin influences in the people and the way they think. I think Sheila Gordon does a great job making this book. She makes the setting, characters, and situations that happen in the book real. You can follow the book all the way, relate to some situations, and imagine others as if they had happened to you. I like this book a lot, and I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: Tengo and Frikkie did not know they were going to meet again
Review: Waiting for the Rain, a must to read book. Sheila Gordon's publication of this book is magnificent. She has written many other books that are great to read, but I think the best of all is undoubtably Waiting for the Rain. This book is a novel of South Africa. In this book there are three main settings which contribute in the development of the plot. The most important place was the farm. The other two settings are not as important as the farm, but are needed, the town house, and Johannesburg. Through the novel many characters appeared. The two main characters are Tengo and Frikkie. Tengo, a black boy worker in the farm. Frikkie, a white boy, is the nephew of the owner of the farm. There are also primary and secundary characters. The books plot theme is intresting from the begginig to end. The story is about this two boys, Tengo and Frikkie, that knew each other since babies. They didn't know what the color of the skin meant until the grew up. They separated themselfs and followed different roads. They did not know they were going to meet again. Waiting fo the Rain is the kind of book you never forget, and you do not get tired to read. This is the kind of book that if you read when young, makes you think about the future, how the real world is, what you have to expect about your life. I really liked this book and would like to recommend it. Waiting for the Rain is a must too read book.
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Summary: A friendship is tested dramatically by the political system.
Review: The story of the childhood friendship of two boys, one artistic, hungry for knowledge, and black and the other practical, desiring simplicity, and satisfied with what he sees as his destiny and his right shows that life can get very complicated and tragic. Though the boys grow apart, they will never forget each other. This is a poignant and touching story. An English teacher.
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Summary: Overall a good book
Review: I thought that this book was well writen and it brought a lot of emotion out of me. I hope that everyone who reads this book can realize the sernoius of the matter and what some people have gone through just to have freedom.
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Summary: It was a slow book
Review: Idid not like the book because, it did not get my attention. I like books with more action. at one point of the book it talked about racism that shattered a friendship. A 7th grade student.
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Summary: The Book Was Very Realistic
Review: Tengo and Frikkie are very good friends, but as the hatred becomes larger, will they remain friends?
I thought the book was very realistic in a good sense, but there were a few times in which I felt it could have become more realistic
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