Year Of No Rain Quotes

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The author of Year of no Rain a great book was put together by Alice Mead. This Author put this book together really well she used great description and great detail. The book almost looked like a movie while reading it that's how descriptive it is. In 1989 a attack happened in Sudan on a toun. In this book it shous how to push through with two very brave characters and some of there friends Stephen and Naomi. In the book Year of no rain by Alice Mead, Naomi and Stepan have different points of view on who Naomi should marry, they are brother and sister. On page 3 and 4, Stephan says that “Yes, but he belongs to the most influential family in the village. They have twenty cows!” From this quote,Stephen thinks that Naomi should marry peter because he is thinking because his family has twenty cows that he will give some to her family. On the other hand, “Stephan of course it's not peter Gurange. He has only has three teeth.” (Page 3 and 4) In this quote she doesn't think that he is a good husband because he has three husbands. ‘’You think this is easy? In three or four years, you are going to be in the same position.” She thinks that he should be married to good person and think about who to mary.” …show more content…
On page 100 chapter 15 Wol states that “How do you think she survived? She’s dead, Stephen.” Wol is giving up on Naomi but Stephen wants to keep looking for her and when Wol said she is dead Stephan is thinking less of Wol. When someone says something like that about your family member you don't want to be around that person who is negative. Before Stephan thought of wol as a friend. On the other hand, ”Then why didn't you find her body? No. I'm going. My mind's made up, Wol. I’ll wait for her.” Stephan does not care if Wol leaves them. Therefore, he is being defensive and getting a little angry. He does not want him to talk about his sister that

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