Fourth journal

Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 4

THE RAIN CAME

For me this was a strange story because I felt myself very tired reading it. But I could associate this reading with some part on the bible when it is mentioning that one king offered to God his daughter to be scarified in appreciation of the victory they got in the war.
Something that calls my attention a lot was the episode when the girl thought that her family was looking for a husband to her, when in reality they were planning to kill her.
According to that, I want to refer in this journal the importance of being aware about the paradigms. We are surrounded of people that are changing their thoughts in every moment and for that reason we don’t know how important is to do the things we must do in our routines, I mean that the father didn’t have to sacrificed his daughter, it was only what the people around him wanted he did because at the end the girl was solve and she had to escape and then the rain came. In my way of thinking they are only prejudices in the mind of people with bad pretentions of our desires and of our behavior.
According to what I’m saying I have to recognize that the society always put limits in our mind and for that reason we grew up in a world full of conditions and what is worse in most of the cases we never accept the changes that come across with us.


3rd April 2009
THE RAIN CAME
GRACE OGOT

UNKNOWN WORDS
Fuss= alboroto
Hut=choza
Wrestler=Contienda, luchador (a).
Befall= suceder, ocurrir.
Fondle= acariciar.
Twig= ramita, ramilla.
Wrath= cólera, ira.
Stillness= quietud, tranquilidad, silencio.
Reed= Carrizo, junco.
Ransom – rescate

QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
1. Do you consider that the father had to sacrifice her daughter to solve the problem?
2. What would you do if you realize that the people you love most are intending to kill you?

QUOTES
- It is Oganda, Oganda, my only daughter, who must die so young.
- He assumed the position of a simple father and wept bitterly.
- I will lay down my life, if necessary, and the life of my household, to save this tribe from the hands of the enemy.
- Oganda was a girl whose days in the royal family were numbered.
- Oganda is the lucky one to die for the people; if it is to save the people, le Oganda die.
- That night it rained in torrents as it had not done for a long, long time.

OPINION

I think that we never have to commit somebody to do something or we never must decide or negotiate the welfare of our family, even if we know that in the future everybody is going to be all right.

In my opinion everyone has to make their own decisions and nobody have to decide for anyone.