Week 3 of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Post A
In Botswana, the role of gender plays a much more significant role than in the lives of those who live in the United States. In the US there is a supposed equality between males and females, even though not everything is truly fair for the opposing sexes. We would be considered an advanced nation along the lines of sexual equality. In Botswana however, there is a blatant difference in the importance of women compared to men. Women are given away by their fathers, as in like a marriage, and are expected to do all the chores and housework. An example of this is that Mme Ramotswe is given away by her father. "I will speak to your father about this.," said Note. ""I hope he is not an old fashioned man who will want a lot of cattle for you (53)." They are treated like property. The people of Botswana seen to be okay with this inequality. In fact, they think that that is just how life is supposed to be, and if women were treated as equals, it would be a bad thing.


Post B

Precious is a very decisive, confident woman, which are the qualities necessary for being a good detective. She gets an idea, a hunch, and sticks with it. An example of that is when she is assigned a missing person case. She finds out this missing man was a very religious man. When she talks to the church, she discovered that he was getting baptised in a river and was swept away, and didn't know how to swim. The church had not reported the incident because they were worried about issues with the law. She traveled down the river to look for him, but could not find the body. When she was searching, she brought her neighbor's dog with her for protection. She tied him by the car, and when she went down to the river, she heard him growl and bark. When she went to check on him, she saw a crocodile. She shot it, and began to wonder what it was doing in this part of Africa, there is not enough food to sustain a crocodile's appetite. She cut open it's stomach, and found a watch and other items that belong to a human in it. When presented to his wife, she identified them as his.