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Where do I begin?
There is more and more coming from Nettie, all of her adventures in Africa. She is now helping to teach and nurse somewhat a tribe called Olikna. Their major crop that cherish is the roofleaf. All their huts are made from this and it's in an abundant there. On page 151 some trouble begins because the Olinka people keep asking if Samuel and Nettie are husband and wife. Corrine then starts to wonder if they had a previous affair.
Nettie is so happy to be in Olinka. She teaches children and even adults. However there is only one girl who attends class, Olivia. Leah, I read that quote that disturbed you, but the quote that disturbed me was on page 161, "Our women are respected here. We would never let them tramp the world as American women do." Tashi, a young girl who strived to learn, was not allowed to be educated because of her father, and he was the one who said that. He said she was becoming "too thoughtful". That to me is just pathetic. Then Nettie said, these men remind her of Pa. How both men alike treat and respect women. That made me upset too.
Leah this is the most degrating quote I found in the book, "A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband she can become something." That quote is on page 156, and you know what they are talking about when they say, she becomes that something? A mother. That's all, a mother. They even put down Nettie because she said, well I'm not a mother. They were like, oh yeah you aren't much. I would've been so upset!
Then a bigger problem arrived. A road was being built. The people of Olinka were so excited for this road to be built. When they thought it was finished because it came right up to their village they invited the road workers for a feast and celebration. The next day the road workers came to level down their houses to make way for the expansion of the road. It was a huge betrayal towards the Olinka people. Now their whole village is in danger. The cheif went to talk to the man in charge, but the man didn't even think twice. This might be the end of the Olinka village.





---BethAnn