Reading Response # 4

Anand is a very stong figure throughout The Song of Kahunsha. Everyone looks up to him and respects him. Chamdi has a breaking point where realizes that he has to become the inferior to Anand and stop fighting. Chamdi's breaking point where he finally realizes that he can not go on fighting is when he is at the Muslims house about to burn it down. This time if he does not listen to Anand its not going to be a body part cut of like his tongue was cut before but this time it would result in death and the burning in the fire. Everyone has a breaking point in which they will give in. Chamdi is thankful that he wasnt given a weapon and felt relief.When he saw what was happening to the Muslims he realized Anand was going to make him do something sooner or later to make hime prove to the rest of Anand's team that he was a real man and no longer just a 10 year old boy.

Reading Response #1

Reading the first couple paragraphs there is the theme of loss. The children in the orphanage have lost someone and maybe have never met them. They have lost friends who they have made at the orphanage over the years. Some children have been at the orphanage so long that they lost the feeling of being loved by someone. Having someone loving you enough to want to adopt you. Not because of what you look like or how you dress but because of youre personality that they can see inside of you. Even Mrs. Sadiq has a loss within her that makes her sad and seeming depressed towards the other children. Reading closer to the end of chapter 3 if no one in the orphanage has lost someone they have now. They are on the edge of losing their home. They're losing their place of belonging.