This few pages of this section had a large impact, to me anyways. It was terribly sad. Another death. This book never seems to amaze me, just when I think that there will be no more surprises, there are. Its astonishing to me that Meena ended up killing herself with rat poison. Meena wasn’t one of the main characters, but she has enough of an impact on the story, and me as a reader. She had many difficult things going on in her life. Whether it be the hardships she had at home, being beaten by her father and brothers for nonsense things, or the the fact that her family was just going to marry her off to someone that she wasn’t in love with, when she was frankly in love with someone else. It was hard for me to grasp the fact that the death of the first girl born in the slum hadn’t really affected anyone that dearly. Manju was the one that seemed the most upset, but even her own mother was just dismissing her while she was taking the poison. She didn’t believe she would kill herself considering she had a history of attempts. It was ironic that the only real evidence or remembrance of Meena was a graving of her’s and some other boys name. The sad part was that it wasn’t even Meena, it was about someone else.
ps for some reason this never posted the other day
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