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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the two novels featuring female protagonists and set in Southeast Asia during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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gave people the strength to put the pieces back together again and how the young girls who survived these tumultuous times would take from these defining moments involving family/home, friendship/loss,
the fragmentation of war/conflict, food (rice)/survival, coming of age a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them (Minfong Ho). Twelve-year-old Dara, protagonist of The Clay Marble, struggles
to keep her family together as war drives them away from their homeland and they must reestablish a new way of life elsewhere while still remaining true to the old
cultural values they held dear. Rice Without Rain features seventeen-year-old Jinda Boonreung, who tries to help her family survive political conflict and the devastation of the rice crop upon
which the continuity of the Asian culture rests. As these female protagonists experience love, loss, heartache, and finally hope their evolution into womanhood comes full circle as they return
home with a renewed sense of independence. In The Clay Marble, Daras family (which includes her mother, older brother Sarun and baby brother Nebut) are forced to relocate from their
homeland Cambodia to a refugee camp on the Thailand border in 1980, but quickly discover that a home is not a building no more than family consists solely on bloodlines.
After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means something familiar was close by, her family is shortly thereafter welcomed by nineteen-year-old Nea, her
cousin Jantu, and her grandfather Kem as warmly as if they were visiting relatives, and become "emotionally attached" despite Jantus observation that, What I have, and what you have, are
leftovers of families. Like fragments from a broken bowl that nobody wants. Were not a real family (Adler and Foster 275). While Rice Without Rain concentrates on
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