Chanda Kabelo, the main character in this novel struggles with a unique journey of maintaining a family and striving towards a better life despite the society she lives in. She travels through her journey alone, however along the way there's always someone there to lend a helping hand such as a friend, a neighbor, a teacher or her mother. Chanda moves from the country side in Sub-Saharan Africa to a more urban area, where she's exposed to new obstacles. This society and culture struggles with accepting the truth of the pandemic of AIDS because they're all uneducated and ignorant about this disease. Many would rather go off and die or commit suicide to spare their families from living with the shame of knowing they were an "AIDS Family." .
The story opens with an obstacle in Chanda's journey, her little sister Sara, has just died from colic. She feels all alone when dealing with her sister's death. Chanda's mother shuts down, and her step-father drinks and sleeps around to forget. It isn't until she cries with her mom, where they share each other's pain. "A preacher says: 'The Lord never gives us more than we can bear.' I think of Mama. I think of Esther. I want to smash his face in (162)." Chanda struggles with the existence of God and whether or not He's there for her throughout the book. It seems as if it's almost adversity after adversity because by this time, at 16 years old, Chanda has had four different fathers. Her real father was killed in the diamond mines soon after they moved. Her first stepfather abused her; the second died of a stroke; the third was a drunken philanderer who soon dies. She battles her own thoughts of whether or not she and her loved ones carry AIDS. In a society where AIDS is shunned and rumors are passed on from person to person like the disease itself, Chanda is forced to give the impression to her neighbors that everything is fine, when in reality it isn't.
Allan Stratton was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1951. ... Now Allan has once again switched his career back to writing. ... I found Allan Stratton to be a very political and/or historical writer. ... Allan describes this play as "detached and ironic" which definitely was the case. ... Overall I think Allan Stratton is an outstanding person in Canada's entertainment industry. ...
For instance, Briggs and Stratton utilize a fiscal year that runs from July to June (Briggs and Stratton, 2002). ... Briggs and Stratton reported a LIFO reserve of $44.8 mil in 2002 and a reserve of $51.3 mil in 2001 (Briggs and Stratton, 2002). ... Briggs and Stratton estimates warranty costs and accounts for those costs as a liability on the balance sheet (Briggs and Stratton, 2002). ... Briggs and Stratton recognizes revenue when goods are shipped (Briggs and Stratton, 2002). ... Briggs and Stratton does deduct reserves for bad debt and returns (Briggs and Stratton, 2002). ...
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809. ... John Allan also baptized him when he was little. ... Allan, drank more. John Allan Disowned Edgar after he got out of the army. ... (Mankowitz 37) On September 22, 1835 Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin secretly in St Paul's Episcopal Church, in Baltimore Maryland. ...
Edgar Allan Poe was the master of macabre tales. ... Tension further arose in the Allan family, when John Allan was discovered to be unfaithful to his wife. ... A few weeks later, John Allan died. ... They had a secret marriage, because Virginia was only thirteen years of age. ... Edgar Allan Poe still speaks to his audience in present times. ...
In 1830, at the age of twenty-one, Edgar Allan entered as a cadet at West Point. ... In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition". ... Another way that Edgar Allan Poe showed his qualities as a writer was by a popular short story called "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... The information we get is secret information, which is the kind of things we do not hear everyday (schmoop.com). ... The name Edgar Allan Poe brings to mind images of murderers, burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ...
Katherine Comstock is reprimanding her daughter, Elnora, who has "given her no peace" (Stratton-Porter 9) and blames her for the death of her husband. ... First, Elnora displays this connection as she finds pure "joy in the outdoors" (Stratton-Porter 83) and is filled with knowledge of the swamps that substitutes for "a mother that doesn't care for her" (Stratton-Porter 81). ... That we must share with those poor cooped-up city people the best we can" (Stratton-Porter 93). ... Comstock's dress and arms" (Stratton-Porter 434). ... Comstock'...
When its time to go to bed, they secretly make sure the closet door is shut. ... Edgar Allan Poe was born to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. in Boston on January 19, 1809. ... John and Frances Allan who never legally adopted young Edgar took him in. ... However, John Allan forbad him from studying what his heart desired: poetry. ... Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's famous writers. ...
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Poe was taken in by John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant living in Richmond, Virginia. It was there that he was baptized Edgar Allan Poe. ... John Allan refused to help him pay off his debts, forcing him to take a job as a clerk. ... Edgar Allan Poe managed to perfect a variety of literary forms. ...
