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Important Objects
Setting
Family
Relationships
Other Random Ideas
100
Three objects found on the cart of the man they met on the path.
What are farm tools, fish nets, rice?
100
This is the the time AND place in which the novel is set.
What is in the 1970's in Cambodia?
100
This is the narrator of the story.
Who is Dara?
100
This is how Nea treats Dara when they first meet.
What is kindly and generously?
100
This is where the children get most of their food.
What is the lunch truck?
200
Three toys made by Jantu.
What are a a mobile, clay dolls and a clay marble?
200
These are three reasons why Dara's family had to leave their village.
What is because there were bombs exploding, their fields were destroyed, and their home was burned down?
200
These are Jantu's brother's name and nickname.
What are Nebut and Baby?
200
This is how Jantu treats Dara when they first meet.
What is rudely and with insults?
200
This is the name of the town from which Dara came.
What Siem Reip?
300
This is what the clay dolls looked like.
What are Dara's and Jantu's families in a village together?
300
This is the place in the refugee camp where Dara talks to Jantu for the first time.
What is the well?
300
This is the bully of the refugee camp.
Who is Chnay?
300
This is how Mother treats Nea when Nea invites the family to dinner.
What is curtly, almost rudely?
300
This is why mango trees make Jantu sad.
What is because that's where her father was killed?
400
This is what the clay dolls symbolized to Dara and Jantu.
What are hopes and dreams for the future OR Sarun and Nea getting married and joining their families?
400
This is where the refugee camp was located AND this is what it was called.
What is on the border between Thailand and Cambodia AND Nong Chan?
400
This is what happened to Dara's father.
What is he was killed by soldiers?
400
This is the relationship of Nea to Jantu.
What is cousins?
400
What toy can Jantu make from banana leaves?
What is a fish?
500
This is why rice is so important in the story.
What is because it is a staple food and because it symbolizes home and family and peace?
500
These are three ways Nong Chan is similar to Dara's home before the fighting.
What are food, families, and happiness?
500
These are three types of family mentioned in the story.
What are people you are related to, people you meet who are similar and kind to you, and the government as parents and citizens as children?
500
According to Jantu, this is what real families do.
What is grow larger?
500
This is a reason Dara's father may have been killed.
What is because he could read and write OR because he taught children their letters OR because he tried to find food for his sick and dying mother?