This book “THE BITE OF THE MANGO” really caught my attention after about the second page. The way it was written told me that the real message was behind the words themselves. One example that told me this was when the rebels were torturing Mariatu’s village she didn’t show lots of fear but the book says that in her mind she was scared to death. A quote that supports this is “I knelt down in front of my captor, lowered my head, and waited. I wanted to show the older rebel that I would be obedient.”pg 38
Mariatu's courage to stand up to her captors made me really question myself. It made me wonder if I could stand up to people that are persecuting me and my family or would I let them kill everything that has any meaning to me. What I got from this part of the story was that trials come and go, but they leave scars and those scars don’t heal very fast. I feel lots of compassion for Mariatu as she was going through this period in her life. What happened to her makes me feel that my problems are very small and I have something to be thankful for. I shouldn’t dwell on my problems and I should help other people with their problems.
I didn’t realize how slight my problems were compared to Mariatu’s until I read the quote again. Mariatu must have been extremely strong for her to be willing to do what the rebels wanted her to, even though in her mind she was scared. Your blog really described the pain in Mariatu and what she had to go through, this also brought out how cruel and careless the rebels were to everyone but themselves.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the way that you connected her experience to yourself. You asked yourself what you would do in that situation and that was really interesting. I agree that Mariatu's courage was amazing and I don't think I could have done what she did. I probably would have lost my composure. Do you think that Mariatu would have really done whatever her captors told her to or was just going to pretend to until she could get away?
ReplyDeleteMy problems seem like nothing compared to Mariatu's plus I liked the way that you connected this to yourself.
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