The reading for today is The School Days of an Indian Girl. To begin, this reading is a bit confusing a person without background to the passage such as myself. This explain I will reiterate that the passage is confusing.
The main character, who I assume is Sa, must withstand many trials and aggravation of herself as she intends a school that she makes very apparent is not the kindest place to be.
This story could be read as a story of racism and the imposing of will and values on the youth of a culture. I would agree with this reading as the main character endures losing her hair and having to learn the routines of a new and strange land after being taken away from her mother.
Speaking of the snatching of the protagonist from her mother I think I should mention that the actually occurrence is not detailed within the story and thus I would claim this is a very important fact to be noted. I cannot say for sure if the mother loved the protagonist as the mother is said as having "never made a plaything of her wee daughter" and standing motionless when said daughter exhibited extreme fright at a man who entered the home. This said I think it can be said with a good amount of certain that the protagonist loved her daughter. What the latter means for the storytelling is clear as the mother is often compared to the adult figures at the school.
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