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Summary: Homeless Bird review
Review: Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be married off by your parents, when you were only 13 years old? In the book Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan, Koly the main character has many difficult choices to make. This book is classified as realistic fiction, and it takes place in India, during the 1970's. Homeless Bird seems very realistic, and there aren't many books like it. The main characters in this book are Koly, her mother in law, whom she calls Sass, and Raji. Koly, is a 13 year old girl who gets married off by her parents, Sass is her mother in law who irritates Koly. And Raji is Koly's friend who she meets in the city. The main plot in this book is Koly, getting married off at a very young age. Being married at that young of an age is very hard for Koly to deal with. And Koly has lots of things to deal with, along the way. One of the main external conflicts in this book is when Hari, Koly's husband, dies. Koly hadn't even gotten used to living away from home, and when he died, she had to get used to living alone with her new family, with out him, and getting to know everyone. Koly didn't want to stay, so she thought she could run away and go back home. It was strange that she waited that long to think about wanting to go home. If I were in her position, I would have been thinking about it all the time. Koly had a lot of internal conflicts too. Koly was unhappy inside too. She was being bossed around by Sass, before and after Hari's death. She wanted to leave very bad, but she knew she had to stay, because she knew her family would be ashamed if she came back home. So she decided that she had to try to be happy there, with the Mehtas. I think that the theme of Homeless Bird is Freedom. The reason is because Koly gave away her earrings, so that she could keep a book of poems, that was Sassur's (her father in law). The author is trying to say, about freedom, that you don't only have freedom in your actions, but also in your mind. Homeless Bird teaches, and shows people about the ways of life of other people, and teaches them to appreciate everyone and everything.
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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Can you imagine yourself getting married to someone you don't know at a young age. In the novel "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan Koly, the main character gets married to a boy named Hari. This book is realistic fiction. This book takes place in somewhere in India in the 1970's. I learned some facts be reading this book. Koly gets married to a boy named Hari. Then Koly meets Sass and Sassur.
Koly cleans up in the families' house because whenever her husband or Sass tells her to do something she has to do it. Koly and Sass go to a city. They look around looking at temples then later on Sass runs away from Koly. The Koly meets a boy named Raji. Raji brings Koly to a house owned by a person named Maa Kamala and she offers koly a job. Now that Koly has a job she could buy things that she needs. She doesn't have to worry about running out of money.
Before Koly was going to married she was thinking of running away. "When I heard that at last a husband had been found for me, I almost ran away. {Pg.7 Paragraph 5}. This shows that Koly didn't want to get married at this young age. This is because she wanted to be older. But then her brothers were nice to her so she stayed and didn't run away.
Whole Koly was at her new job she made a friend. Her name is Tanu. Tanu told Koly if Koly could come over to Tanu's house. The shows that she has to tell Maa Kamala and she might get mad. This is because Koly probably still has to do some work at Maa Kamalas house. So every day Koly has to get up in the morning really early and do work until night.
The word that I chose for this book is Freedom. Koly sold her earrings for money to buy the book. The authors message is that you're not physically free but also your mind. The authors right because if you know how to read then life would be much easier. This book is great because at the beginning of the story it wasn't boring and throughout the book.
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Summary: Homeless Bird Awesome Review
Review: Would you like it if you were a pre-teen and enjoying life, then all of a sudden you were forced to get married to a man you have never even met before, and his family didn't even want you in the first place? In the novel, Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, the main character, Koly experiences many challenging experiences many challenging adventures. Homeless Bird can be classified as realistic fiction. The novel takes place in India, in the 1970's. Homeless Bird has so many exiting spins and turns, and the worst things can happen one minute and the best thing the next! The characters keep the story going and are really the heart of the story. Without the characters, the story would never be able to go on and be exiting, and all the characters add to the book like a cycle. The characters make the plot go on and on. For example: Koly meets Raji, which leads Koly to Maa Kamala, wich leads her to her friends which become practically like her family. Koly keeps herself together because of her friends, and the other characters. All the characters have small parts, but without them, the story wouldn't be complete. Raji really changes life for Koly. From the first moment they spend together, they have a connection that the reader can tell is love! In the end, the reader will realize that all of the bad things that happen eventually all pay off into something good, with a happy ending!
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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Homeless Bird Do you know how old people in India get married? This book is Homeless bird by Gloria Whelan is about the main character, Koly (age thirteen) having trouble with her husband's family. This book's is a realistic fiction because it is based on a true story, but the characters in this book aren't real. The story takes place in the 1970s and the place of where it happens is India. The characters has changes in life because of someone's death. As a result of the characters, they ends up in a place where they wanted. Koly's Sass (mother in-law) and Raji (friend) are two other characters that need keep the flow. Sass is the mother of Koly's husband and she is an angry woman because of how she yells at Koly. Raji is the boy who helps Koly solve her problems and helps her. Sass acts really mean and Raji acts really nice. As a result of sass and Raji, they both are 2nd from the list of the main characters.
Koly's Sass and Sassur (father in-law) struggles through sadness. They go through struggles because Koly's husband died after they got married. Sass used her sadness on yelling at Koly to do more work. Sassur used his sadness to teach in a very sad way. Soon, Sass and Sassur was happier than before. Koly need to choose to run away with her money from her sliver earrings or stay with her Sass that is mean and makes you do a lot of work. Koly begged Krishna (one of the Hindu gods) to find a way to help her escape. This shows that Koly should get a job and save money to leave with her money and the money from the sliver earring (or traded for a book) or stay with Sass. She didn't to make a decision because Koly didn't have to make a decision to leave Sass. Instead, Sass is leaving Koly, but not Koly leaving Sass. As a result, she lives at a good city and meets a boy (which I won't tell) who asked Koly to marry him.
The message word about Homeless Bird is Independence. Koly leaves her parents and gets married and have nobody that she knows. The author's message about Independence is laving your family. Another message from the author is living independently with no friends and family, but only your husband's/ wife's family (only if you get married). This book was interesting because of how a girl ends up in a happy family that does not involve children.
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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Can you imagine being married off by your parents at age 13? Homeless Bird is a fiction book written by Gloria Whelan. It takes place in India, around 1970. This is a book that sounds realistic, and has a really good hook. If you like adventure and survival, this would be the perfect book for you.
In this novel, there are characters that helped Koly (the main character) hated her, liked her or wanted her to join them and do bad things. Her sass wanted to abandon Koly because she hated her. Sass made her work hard and took the rights away from Koly. Later on in the book, Raji was a character that helped Koly survive. Sass was really mean if she could be that mean to Koly, but no matter how much she tried to hurt Koly, it turned out in a good way. In the middle of the book, Koly actually got away from Sass, and Sass got away from Koly in a special way.
Koly is was facing an internal conflict; she could either run away, go back to her parents or stay home with Sass and get tortured. Koly finds ou that Hari's parents wanted her to marry Hari for a special reason; to get the dowry so they can get a train ticket and take Hari to Varanasi because they thought the Ganges would heal him from the tuberculosis he had. Koly didn't really sleep at night deciding weather to run away or not. She knew that the silver earrings won't last for a long time, and had to get a job soon. Koly didn't know if she could get a job until her money wore all spent.
Koly also had an external conflict: she needed to find a job so she could survive on her own. She is worried that her rupees are almost gone. She knows that her rupees were going to be gone pretty soon. She is thinking of her widow pension, but she thinks it would't be enough. A sticking job would be good because Koly is good at stitching. The theme subject of this novel is freedom Sass didn't let Koly have fun, or do anything other than work. Koly didn't have the right to make decisions or do what she preferred.The Author's comment about freedom is that no matter hat people do to you physically, they can'tt take away the freedom of your mind. Lots of people like Sass think they can control somebody's mind, buy they are wrong.
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Summary: homeless bird
Review: Homeless Bird review How would you feel if your step mom had just abandoned you and you had no place to go? That's what happed to Koly in a book named Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. It is a realistic fiction book that is very astonishing. Koly is a 13-year- old girl living in India in the 1970's. The endurance and will power someone would need to survive on the streets would have to be great. Homeless Bird is a very captivating book that holds the reader's attention from start to finish. In the book, the story line or plot is driven by Koly, her step mom, and her boyfriend named Raji. The story starts out when Koly is getting married at 13, but her husband dies about two months after the wedding. Then Koly's mean stepmother takes her to a city where she lives up to her reputation of being mean by doing something. It would be really sad and depressing to marry someone and have them die two months later. The plot of the book is very interesting in that it changes directions at every chapter. In the book, Koly's husband dies; this poses an external conflict. Koly is really sad and she hates that she is now a widow. This shows that she cared for Hari and even though, she did not know him for that long. This is because she was planning to spend the rest of her life with him. As a result, Koly is sad for a long time, but not for too long because she hardly knew him and had not gotten to know him that good. In the book Koly tries to decide weather or not to run away from her sass which poses an internal conflict. Koly tries to save her silver earrings so she could use them to buy a train ticket if she decided to run away. This shows that by running away she thinks it would give her a better life without any hatred. This is because sass was treating her so bad and if she tried she could survive on the streets and fell better about herself. She gives up her easy way to freedom when sass says she was going to sell Sassurs poem book and Koly trades her earrings for the book. Therefor she would not have them to buy a train ticket. One of the themes in this book is independence. Koly was independent because she decided to go and live on her own and start a new life. The authors comment about independence is that people should be independent and not let other people push them around or they will never live how they would like. More people should read this book because it gives the reader a good way to go about life. Homeless Bird is a must read for people who likes a warm hearted story with a basket full of morals.
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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Homeless Bird One marriage and one death changes Koly's life forever. Koly is a character in Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird. It is set in India around the 1970s. The novel is realistic fiction. The life of a widow is a hard one in India, the death in Koly's life is that of her husband. Koly is a character that is supremely important for the book.
The book is written from Koly's perspective. Koly is a thirteen-year old girl living in a village in India. Two other important characters are the rickshaw boy, Raji, and Koly's unpleasant stepmother, or Sass. Koly grows more independent and responsible throughout the plot; she goes from living with her family to going to a job and having an apartment, which she shares with a roommate. Koly is married (into a family also living in a village) and then widowed, leaving her with her mean Sass. Koly's Sass abandons her in the city, where she learns to live on her own. She must work hard to get on her feet, working hard to find a source of money and then trying hard on the job. If the reader of this review wants to discover what happens next, they will have to finish the book.
An external conflict Koly experiences is her struggle to get off the city stree
"I can't afford a place to live. Can't I pick up my pension here?"
". . . No, no. Pensions are mailed. Return when you have an address" (pg. 128).
The above quote shows that Koly is trying to end her homelessness because it shows her trying to get some money for rent. The above quote shows what seems a paradox because until she gets an address she cannot get her widows pension, which she needs to get an address. As a result, Koly will have to find another way to get a home.
One of the myriad internal conflicts Koly faces is her fight with herself over whether to run away from her house.
"I began to make plans. I doubted that I could live on the pension alone, but my silver earrings would help me until I could find a job of some sort. But who would hire me?" (pg. 99).
The above quote shows the two sides of Koly's argument against herself. Her argument for running away is speeding along at the start of the quote, but hits her argument for staying at the end. Because of this conflict, Koly gains experience at decision making for the road ahead.
Gloria Whelan put a message about success in her book. It takes Koly three years to be in a place she would like to call home again, but she does. I think this means the authors' message about success is that it usually comes with time. Rome was not built in a day. I thought Homeless Bird was an okay book because, although it offered fascinating insight into the struggle of the Indian widow, the plot at the seemed first to just fling problem after problem at Koly, and then at the end grant her a overly generous helping of good luck.
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Summary: ''Homeless Bird''
Review: How would you like to marry someone you didn't even know? The novel ''Homeless Bird'' is by Gloria Whelan. The book is a realistic fiction. She is in India in a poor city in the 1970's. She is real disappointed that she is getting married. There will be many struggles in her life.
The main character is a girl called Koly. The second is sass Kolys mother-in-law third is her friend Raji. Koly is married to hari and goes to the town Varahand. She meets a new friend there. Then she meets Raji and likes him. There are three main characters in the book.
Koly has many external conflicts in her life. One of them is after she knows she is getting married one quote is"A gift of money had to be paid to my bride grooms family for tacking me. To get money for the dowry, Maa sold three brass vases and a brass wedding lamp that had been part of her own dowry" She had to go through a lot to get a dowry. She had to get money, which was hard. But she had her dowry and she can pay.
Beside from the external conflicts there were internal conflicts that came before external. One internal conflict is weather she should run away or not one quote is "When I first heard that at last a husband had been found for me, I almost ran away. How could I spend the rest of my days with someone I had never seen?" She doesn't know if she should run away or not. She doesn't even know whom she is marrying. This is the hardest conflict in the book.
The theme of the book is hope. Koly is abandoned and hopes for things to turn around. There is much hope in kolys mind at the time. She is all alone and needs to be happy and feel loved. There is nothing more koly wants more than to be happy and loved.
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Summary: homeless bird
Review: How would you like it if you were a thirteen year old girl that is about to be married off? In the book Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, it happens to a thirteen-year-old girl. Homeless Bird takes place in the 1970s, in the country of India. The genre of this book is realistic fiction because what happened in this book could really happen to girls in India. The characters in this book are not real people, nor is it a true story.
Koly the main character, is married off to a sick bot who eventually dies, leaving Koly alone with his parents. Koly's relationship with her mother in-law, or her Sass, is one of the most important relationships in the book. Without sass, and the conflict between her and Koly, the plot would not move forward. This is because Sass is unkind which prompts Koly to make important decisions. As a result of Koly's reactions to her the plot remains exciting throughout the novel. The main character Koly goes through an external conflict because a few day after Koly was married, her husband, Hari, dies. When Hari dies Koly is left alone with the in-laws that treat her like dirt and would like to get rid of her. Since Hari has died, Koly has no friends except Hari's sister who is somewhat of a friend, but not a true friend. The only thing that keeps Koly at her in-laws house is that if she left and went back to her own house it would embarrass her family. This leads into the internal conflict that Koly has. Koly, experiences an internal conflict after her mother in law leaves her. Koly doesn't know whether to go home or stay where she is at her in-laws. If Koly were to go home it would embarrass her family. This shows that Koly has two choices, she either goes home to her family or stay where she is all alone. This is because she doesn't know if her family will accept her or tell her to leave. The result of this internal conflict is that Koly goes through in this book is that she can't decide whether to go home or not. The theme of the book Homeless Bird to loyalty. This is because when Koly told someone that she was going to do something, she did it. Koly shows this by she tells sass that she will help her with things and even though Sass threats Koly like dirt Koly always comes back. The authors comment about loyalty is that if you tell someone that you can do something then you can do it. My opinion of the theme is that this theme works for this book and loyalty is also explained well throughout the book. This book isn't very interesting because after the first or second chapter the books plot just get boring.
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Summary: Homeless Bird
Review: Did you know that some people had to marry someone they don't know at the age of 13? In the noble Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, the main character had to do so. Homeless Bird is realistic fiction, and it has lots of information about India. The story takes place in India, in 1970s. The life won't be fun or interesting to be married early because there is no time to play, but only to work. Homeless Bird is full of Koly's life and experiments.
The story is short, but it is interesting because something surprising happen every chapter. The story starts with Koly, the 13 years old Indian girl, marrying a boy called Hari. Hari dies soon, and Koly is left with her mean mother-in-law, who always scolds her. Koly feels bad, being scolded on everything she does. As a result of sass's scolding, the plot thickens.
During the story, Koly experiences an external conflict: that her sass left her in widow's city. In chapter 9, Koly's sass left her in Vrindavan while Koly was gone to buy food. This shows that Sass was mean to Koly and she should regret and feel sorry for Koly. This is because Koly is her daughter-in-law, so that means she is her family. Family should not harm each other. Also, sass should have not left Koly because she would have bad Karma. After a few days, Koly gets help from a boy and finds a place to live.
In the story, Koly also experiences an internal conflict when she found out that her husband's family was using her widow's pensions Chandra, her sister-in-law's dowry. This made Koly struggle because the pensions were for her and she couldn't receive them. Her choices were to take her pensions back from the family, or to let tem use the pensions for Chandra's dowry . A passage from book that shows Koly was struggling is " I was very angry, but not so angry that I would ruin Chandra's happiness. Koly wanted to take her pensions back, but Chandra's worried voice made Koly feel sorry for her. This is because Chandra's voice made Koly think of her with no husband and made Koly think of how poor the family was. Koly has hard time deciding what to do, but at the end, she fight off the choice of getting back her money and lets Mehta family use the money for Chandra's dowry, but she asks sass not to take her pensions next time.
The subject of theme in this book is adaptability. In page 80, the story is told that Koly began to rise early in the morning, make foods and sweep the courtyard without sass's scolding. The author's comment about adaptability is that people need to adapt whatever the situation is, to success. Author showed theme distinctly by showing Koly getting better and adapting in sass's house. The book teaches Indian life style and important lessons, and it would be beneficial to people's knowledge about India.
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