Journal 22 - Change

Change is inevitable. Life and death are the biggest changes I know of. These happened the most in Nectar in a Sieve. This is the book with the most deaths after Night by Elie Wiesel. The weather of the village has changed. This means that the author has changed the setting. By changing just the setting, the weather, he is able to change all other things by the domino effect. When the weather changed, their economy changed. Later, as it became worse, children died and Ira gave in to prostitution. The economy was the big change and chain effect of the weather. Without food, children starve. Kuti died as well as Raja and Old Granny. Kuti died from starvation. He was well-fed when Ira was a prostitute but when she stopped being one, he died. Raja died from the beating and also because he was starving and weak. Old Granny died from starvation. I think that the book is trying to tell us that every change or decision is a domino effect. This might be the theme of the book. A lot of things changed in my life as well. I did not remember much of my early years but when I changed schools, everything changed. My life changed from being set to one with a teeny tiny bit more freedom. I learned more things and matured a bit more than when I was in ILBC. Adolescence is one phase of change that I go through. It is very weird and you sometimes don't know what actually is going on. I learned a lot about the internet and I learned a lot of things using it as well.