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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read this for my Literature class this semester. Cracking India takes place in the upcoming years and after the events of Partition in India and Pakistan. It was a haunting story being told it through a child's point of view, Lenny. In my class we watched a documentary Partition: The Day India Burned and it really opened up the story with the history of what was actually going on in India and in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab at this period of history. As haunting as the documentary was, it really put into perspective the history because we sadly really don't learn this history in our history classes.
I enjoyed the novel. It makes the reality of what happened in history really wide open. I enjoyed the different characters that we see in this minus the ice-candy-man and just some of cousin's actions with Lenny were a bit too much. But I loved Ayah.
I enjoyed the novel. It makes the reality of what happened in history really wide open. I enjoyed the different characters that we see in this minus the ice-candy-man and just some of cousin's actions with Lenny were a bit too much. But I loved Ayah.
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
medium-paced
This book has a very unique authorial voice. I liked the choice to tell the story of this dark period of history through the eyes of a child. It beautifully depicts Lenny’s growing understanding of the patriarchal world she lives in.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book definitely struck something inside me.
To narrate this story through Lenny was an inspired choice. I found the book emotionally difficult to get through, something about it straddling the realm of familiar but not, of the experience of my generation as children during a war, as relationships between women, of burgeoning youth and the innate female-ness of it all..
To narrate this story through Lenny was an inspired choice. I found the book emotionally difficult to get through, something about it straddling the realm of familiar but not, of the experience of my generation as children during a war, as relationships between women, of burgeoning youth and the innate female-ness of it all..
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
