Chapter 4 - Rice

The Rice Harvest

As i opened the page to chapter four i saw a poster stuck to the first page of this chapter, it was a handpainted poster that looked alot like this image;

The poster also had a tittle on the top that sai "Rice Harvest:Come Join The Fun"

i found it pretty creative and the colors were very vibrant and eye catching.

When i saw this poster, one only can assume that the chapter would be talking about Rice Harvest Season.

The chapter was interesting, however i didnt enjoy it as much as i did chapter 1,2 and 3.

This chapter had talked about new traditions that invited us to learn more about the Camaras culture.

The community rice harvest was a big event that took place in Tindican and all famlies had to participate on the same day, the men would work harvesting and the women would later provide food and such things for the hardworking men. The harvesting was a happy and joyful event where there was singing and drums, it was about a community coming together and making it fun in a useful way and nothing could come in the way of the harvesting and that was a very unique and great thing. Camara participated in this event by helping his uncle, Camara showed that his uncle was very skilled and good at what he was doing, at one point in harvesting Camara had many thoughts in his mind, he started to talk about how he was a school boy and that he didnt feel as attached and as united because of the fact that he was parcially an oursider, saying "Indeed, i did forget it, for I was still very young. What crossed my mind - so many things were always crossing it- was more fleeting and less enduring than the clouds which cross the sky.(page62)" This showing that his mind doses off and he started to think more about where he was and why.

Camara then had noticed that he and his uncle were ahead of the rest this shows a foreshadowing due to the fact that Camara is always ahead of what he is doing cultural.

The chapter comes to an end with Camara talking about how the day was joyful and that he was happy.