Homeless Bird
There are several important and meaningful quotes from this chapter. What do you think is the most meaningful or thought-provoking for Koly. Please explain why you have picked the quote, and why you think it is important for Koly.
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January 30th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I think the most important quote was when Maa Kamala said,” Here you are not a widow but a young woman with a life ahead of you.” I think this is meaningful to Koly because someone actually wants her and is taking her in and giving her hope for the future. I picked this quote because to me it brought a little bit of happiness to the book because someone was taking her in and helping her out. It seemed to make things happy and finally a good turn for Koly.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
I think the most meaningful quote is from Koly’s Baap “she is dressed like a woman but only a child”. This is meaningful to Koly because her Baap is giving a very emotional comment to Koly and it makes Koly and her Baap cry. I picked this quote because it is straight from the heart, and like I said before, very emotional. I felt good inside when I saw that comment.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I think that one of the important quotes is when Maa Kamala says “You wallow like pigs in mud, that is all the past now.” The reason why I think it’s a meaningful quote is because I think Koly can give a sigh of relief now and start a new life. Well pigs like to stay dirty, so when you can clean yourself it feels like your in new skin and you can put all of those bad things behind you. I picked this quote because Koly needed something to finally happen to her thats cheerful. Koly has been through a lot of death and she’s been through homelessness so I think that this was her last chance to get back to her parents house. But maybe she will se them again at a wedding. Either one of her brother’s wedding or hers.
January 30th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
I think the most important quote of the book is when Mother Kamala says here you are not a widow just a young women with a life ahead of you. I think this is important because she was very dissapointed to be a widow and Maa Kamala is saying you were never a widow and you are starting a new life with good things to come in the future. Also this makes her think of happiness peacefulness and other happy thoughts she has not thought an a very long time. I picked this because to me this felt like a quote that will stick with Koly for the rest of the book. Like I said this is important to Koly because it will giver her hope in the future.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
I think the most important quote is “you wallow like pigs in mud. That is all in the past.” This was said by Maa Kamala on page 121. All the girls in the widows’ house are talking about their tragic story of how they ended up as a widow in Vrindavan when Maa Kamala walks in the room. To me, this is important because these words remind you not to live in the past. You have to remember to live in the moment, learn to forgive those who have hurt you, and you need to forgive yourself. Forget about the mistakes you made or how foolish you were. Think about how you won’t make those mistakes again. I think these words will help Koly because she has had a very bad marriage and it is finally over. She needs to move on, work hard, and earn enough money to support herself.
Wallow means to roll about or lie in. (usually having to do with animals) When you say pigs wallow in mud it means they roll about in the mud almost like they are swimming. When I read this I thought about pigs wallowing in mud and how they are basically swimming. So the sentence has nothing to do with rolling in mud, it has to do with “swimming”. (Not literally swimming) All in all, I think this quote means not to swim/live in your past.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Sassur told Koly that each word was a little package of letters was the most thought provoking quote. I thought this because this put many thoughts in my mind about words. I think it is important for Koly because she needs to remember this if she wants a good job.
January 30th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
I think the most meaningful quote in this chapter was when Maa Kamala said,”Now Koly,we must find you a job.”. It predicts what probably going to happen in the next few chapter.Also, When Maa Kamala also said, ” Enough of your miserable tales.You wallow like pigs in mud.” She is strict, like one of the other widows said, but she is trying to help them get over the past and look into the future.That helps them be happy, and want to keep living their life.
January 30th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
In this chapter there is a variety of quotes and meaningful sayings that influence Koly. One of the most meaningful one is when Maa Kamla says “Here you are not a widow but a young women with a life ahead of you.” I think what Maa Kamla said influenced her because she was a discouraged widow with no place to go and what Maa Kamla said really changed Koly’s live because she can look at things with a different perspective. This saying was very touching and also change the way I look at the world because people who don’t have a home or don’t have any money doesn’t mean that they have feelings to and we should respect that ,we shouldn’t judge then on the way they look like you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover. This saying can change other peoples way they look at other people.
January 30th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
I think the most thought provoking quote for Koly was when the boy said” Don’t blubber. I’ll show you a place to go. You have to wait until I have finished work. Sit over there , and I will come back for you.” I think that ment alot to Koly because it tells her that some one cares about her and wants to help her. Also it probly gave her hope and the thought of starting over her life.I bet it filled the lonlyness in her life and made her feel happy and wanted. Also she had already known him from when she first arrived and she probly felt safe when she saw some one that was familiar to her.
January 30th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
I think that the most meaningful quote is when the boy said to Koly, ” It is a wast for such a pretty girl to dress in a widow’s sari.” I think that that is meaningful because he is basically saying that Koly is actually worth something. I think that it is meaningful and helpful to Koly because she probably now thinks better of her self now that he said that it is just a wast to put her in the sari. Also now that she probably thinks a little better of her self she maybe could be more confident in her self so she can take more risks and chances. Or she could do more things that she never thought that she could do.
Also I think that when Maa Kamala says ” You wallow like pigs in the mud. That is all in the past.” I think that that is important because it tells you to forget about bad things that happened in the past and make a fresh plate. Also it reminds Koly or me to not let bad things hold you back. Like, when Sass left and she talked to the boy she didn’t give up and she kept on going with the boy. Now she is in a widow’s home with food and a small like shelter. If Koly gave up she probably would be walking around the temple searching or giving up to try to find Sass.
January 30th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
I think that during this whole book many people have said many meaningful things to Koly, but I think that in chapter eight there’s one important quote that is said to Koly. Maa Kamala says to Koly, “You wallow like pigs in the mud. That is all in the past. Now, Koly, we must find you a job.” I find this important because this is the fist that someone has told Koly to move on in life and to not focus on the past, but to focus on the present and future. I think that Maa Kamala helped Koly relies that she’d be happier if she forgot about all the bad things in life and concentrated on the things that go well in her life.
January 30th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
In this chapter I think that the quote “you wallow like pigs in mud. That is all in the past.” I think that was meaningful because despite all the commotion that is going on Koly finds these words from Maa Kamala. I think this means that she is kind of predicting Koly’s future by saying put the past behind and move forward. You are a person with a future ahead. You will get a job and start to make so money. She is trying to put some hope into the women. Maa Kamala I think is a person that is very kind and is going out of her way to do something like this, to try to get women jobs and things like that. When pigs wallow they roll and swim in mud. That relates to the past because the swimming is like dwelling ad the pig is like the past. So it means that you are dwelling on the past and you should move along.
January 30th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
In this chapter I think an impotant quote would be when Raji said to Koly ” Don’t blubber. I’ll show you a place to go. You have to wait until I have finished work. Sit over there, and I’ll be back for you.” I think it should have made her feel cared for especially because she has been through alot of unloving times. So him saying I’ll be back for you should had made her heart fill with joy. I think that it also probably made her think in her head ” Everything is going to turn around and start being a little happier.
I also think that when the two girls were talking about their miserable times, and then Maa Kamala came in and said to them ” Enough of your miserable tales, you wallow like pigs in mud” I feel that should have told them to STOP looking back on the past, and it’s telling them this now not then. Or if you interpret that a different way it could being saying that their not only one with sad stories and that everyone and there has sad story maybe even worse stories than her. So it could be saying to ” suck it up and move on”
January 30th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
I think that the most meaningful quote is when Maa Kamala said “you wallow like pigs in the mud. That is all in the past” because that means never look back in the past but always look forward to your future. This is meaningful because she is frowning upon her situation but she has not looked for ways to make her life better but now that she has a place to sleep and another to work but If Koly doesn’t have any ideas to make life better, she has to start looking for one.
January 31st, 2012 at 12:54 pm
I also think that the most important and meaningful quote is the one by Maa Kamala when she said “you wallow like pigs in the mud.That is all in the past” I think this because she is saying that it only makes it worse talking about their old lives before they were widows.She is also saying get over it you are a widow and you cant do anything about it. That is what makes me think that this is the most important and meaningful quote.
January 31st, 2012 at 3:02 pm
For me I think the most meaningful quote is when Maa Kamala says,” Here you are not a widow but a young woman with a life ahead of you”. I think this was inportant to Koly because she was sad that she became a widow when her husband died and Maa Kamala is saying that she is not a widow gust a yong woman starting a new life and that was nice of her to do that.