The Clay Marble Pages

Some are merely opaque white or off white marbles that were fired at a higher temperature than clays making them somewhat denser.

The clay marble pages.

In the late 1970s twelve year old dara joins a refugee camp in war torn cambodia and becomes separated from her family. It also shows how brave a girl can be and all the effects and sufferings of the war. The main characters dara and sarun flee their crumbling village in siem reap and head to a refugee camp on the border of cambodia and thailand hoping to get supplies and food to help them start over. This study guide consists of approximately 39 pages of chapter summaries quotes character analysis themes and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the clay marble.

Dara says that she thinks she hears a cowbell and later on her mother and sarun hear the cowbell and a little later on in the book they cross paths with a. Crockery marbles are a type of clay marble that is made from two or three different colors of clay. This is the only story we read so cannot speak to the other essays and stories within this book but the story of the clay marble is riddled with typos. It is about a girl named dara and her friend jantu and illustrates the struggles they face.

Dara with what she believes is the help of the marble manipulates her way into working for the camp cook and eventually reunites with both families. Some days jantu tells stories and. The clay marble although directed towards younger audiences expresses a message about war loss and friendship beautifully in it s simplicity. 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.

As the days pass dara spends more and more time with jantu. Sarun is now a soldier and determined to make good on his new career. As most of the books that fall under the title of children s literature do it depicts quite a mature image with meaningful themes hiding behind the innocence of a child s book. This edition published in 1993 by farrar straus giroux in.

There are also some lined crockery that are opaque white with thin blue and or green swirls mixed in. I just finished reading the title story the clay marble to my class. What a wonderful story. The whole while dara relies on the magic clay marble for help and courage.

The clay marble by minfong ho is about a girl dara 12 and her family her brother sarun and her mother they are traveling to this border camp nong chan with limited food and supplies. Edition notes a sunburst book. Clay marble is a novel set in war torn cambodia in 1980 after the fall of the communist regime khmer rouge.