Week 2 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Post A
There are several cultural difference shown in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency so far. One is the respect toward parents. She loves her father who has recently passed away, leaving her the money to start her own store.
Fathers play an important role in Botswanian culture. She speaks of pleasing her father many times and writes his life story down so it will not be forgotten now that he has died. Also, one of her cases is to solve the mystery of whether or not a character's dad is truly her dad. Her father had left her as a child and then this man came to her years later and told her he was her father and that he was sorry he had left her. Although he didn't have much proof of his actually being her real dad, the woman let him stay with her because it was what she was supposed to do. As it turns out, he was an impostor, which Precious found out by tricking him into admitting he was not really the girls dad by telling him his daughter was gravely injured and would need his blood to save her.

Post B

Dear Precious,

I am sorry for you. You are a respectable woman, and you try to always do the right thing. It's a shame that you got involved with the musician Note. He was such a bad man. What I don't understand is why he married you. He didn't seem to want a wife, to be tied down to one person. And he didn't have to be, he was a free man, who had a good career, who liked living on his own. So why did he have to come into your life? Why did he propose if he wanted to be with other women? And why did you stay with him while he beat you? I understand that women believe they can change men, make them better, and that their man isn't so bad. They also like men who are new to them, like Note was because he was an experienced, well-traveled, talented musician. When he left you, I was very glad that such an evil man was out of your life.