The Clay Marble Genre

In the late 1970s 12 year old dara joins a refugee camp in war torn cambodia and becomes separated from her family.

The clay marble genre.

The thesis of the clay marble by minfong ho is that magical clay marbles gives dara courage and independence. In the late 1970s 12 year old dara joins a refugee camp in war torn cambodia and becomes separated from her family. Find books like the clay marble from the world s largest community of readers. Fiction juvenile works juvenile fiction.

The clay marble is a 1991 children s novel by minfong ho it is set in war torn cambodia after the fall of the khmer rouge in the early 1980s. The clay marble the book is fiction adventure. A communist group called the khmer rouge took control of the country and treated the people with great brutality people were forced to leave the cities and work as farmers in the fields. I chose to read it because i needed to read it for english independently and then write a comparison with another book.

Juvenile fiction action adventure product number z12527 released. Minfong ho in the late 1970s twelve year old dara joins a refugee camp in war torn cambodia and becomes separated from her family. When the camp is bombed jantu makes a magic marble out of clay that helps dara track down her family and then return to the hospital for jantu and her brother. The story of the clay marble by minfong ho takes place in cambodia during the late 1970 s.

It is about a girl named dara and her friend jantu and illustrates the struggles they face. The clay marble by mingfong ho has many similarities and connections to a long walk to water by the first connection is that they both have a setting as war the clay marble has bombing and shooting and alwtw has shooting too. Goodreads members who liked the clay marble also liked. Eventually dara comes to realize that courage and independence come from inside and.