The Clay Marble Jantu

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 jantu.

She is a brilliant little girl who is creative and loves to invent and create. It also shows how brave a girl can be and all the effects and sufferings of the war. In the beginning he breaks jantu s creations and master pieces and goes off laughing about it. It was after jantu s death that dara realised what jantu meant when she had said that the magic was in the making of the marble.

Finds her family perseveres after jantu s death leads family back to village stands up to sarun used the marble. 2012 jane kotinek the clay marble a novel study 14 the clay marble vocabulary worksheet 3 chapters 1 10 eerie engrossed exhorted massive restrained sarong scowl terse tinged torrent directions. This is when jantu says the fun isn t playing with it after you make it it s in making the toy he shows up a lot when jantu and dara get separated from their families then each other. Jantu also become a sister figure to dara.

What is the clay marble a symbol of. Next morning she hears that more bombs are likely to be dropped on the camp. Judging by her 1 response julie. The clay marble by minfong ho is a historical story about the vietnam war.

Write the correct word from the list above for each sentence in the space provided. She makes many things for dara and her to play with. Meanwhile nea and sarun experience a romantic attraction to each. Chnay tells her about what her family did and where they are going.

Jantu makes her another magic clay marble to give her strength. It s about a girl named dara and her family that need to survive the vietnam war but they get separated so dara and her new friend from the border jantu need to find their family but jantu s baby brothers foot gets hit by a bomb and she has to go to the hospital and. What happens when dara meets chnay back at the stone beam in nong chan. Dara is going to find her family.

Chnay is originally the base camp bully. The marble was in fact merely a catalyst for their emergence. What is dara going to do that makes jantu give her a clay marble for. She makes a doll house out of clay and various things she found.

It is about a girl named dara and her friend jantu and illustrates the struggles they face. Jantu and dara in particular become close friends with jantu teaching dara many things including how to make toys out of clay many of which are deliberately destroyed by a bullying orphan chnay. Dara returns to the camp to look for her and jantu s families. She sleeps alone for the first time in her life with the clay marble to comfort her.

An old man gives her some food then she goes.