Children Of The River Summary

Children of the River

Children of the River is a book about a girl named Sundara, going through her struggles in America. Sundara is from Cambodia and came to America when she was 13. When she was in Cambodia, right before they left, her aunt, Soka had a baby. When Sundara’s parents sent her on the boat with her Aunt and Uncle, she was in charge of the baby. Later on the baby got very sick, and there wasn’t much medicine and food. And on the boat, there were loads of people so there wasn’t enough medicine and food to go around anyways. And when there was nothing Sundara could do, the baby died and she thought it was her fault the whole time she was in America, which was 5 years. The baby had to be tossed overboard, but Sundara couldn’t stand that …show more content…
But it had to be done. Later on, in school she wrote a poem on Cambodia and the pain people were feeling in refugee camps. This boy named Jonathan heard this poem and thought deeply about it. A couple days later when Sundara’s family as working on Mr. Bonner’s farm, She was working at a produce stand and Jonathan came and walked up to her. Sundara suddenly was flushed and felt a warm feeling around him. She loved his icy blue eyes and his golden hair. The next day, Jonathan asked if he could ask her about Cambodia over lunch that day, and she said yes and they talked. Then later on, they were having lunch, when this other higher ranked Khmer named Pok Simo (Which Sundara absolutely hated) saw her with Jonathan and told his parents which later told her Aunt Soka. Who dislikes her hanging out with boys, especially American boys. So Soka and Sundara got into an argument and Soka made her promise never to speak to Jonathan again. Then Sundara got some bad news about her friend Chamroeun. Which he was the one she was to get married to and she liked him. She had hoped he was alive so she could forget about Jonathan. But Jonathan was the one comforting