2008年12月24日星期三

Chapter III
Mariam’s brothers will use a wheelbarrow to send those rations to Nana, but Nana always yelled at them or even worse threw walnut size rock at those boys. Once Mariam wanted to plead Nana, she called her brother a lizard-ass face, she felt shame later. Nana taught Mariam a lot of living skills, such as kneading dough, stewing turnip with cauliflower and ginger, putting on the toppings and sewing. Mariam’s tutor was a gaunt and stooping old man. He would come to their house once a week and taught Mariam to read Koran and write words. This old man had a white beard that dropped to his navel. Mariam and her tutor liked to stroll in the clearing. Once Mariam told her tutor that she wanted to go to school, but her request was refused by her mother, Nana. Nana thought those children in school would laugh at Mariam and treated her as a spittoon.

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