Post A
The writing style of this book is very simplistic. There are not many difficult vocab words. It seems like someone is just telling you a story, or actually many stories that are connected through the common factor of Precious. This might reflect that stories and myths were passed down from generation to generation orally in Africa, and not written down. Also , because Botswana is not a developed country, they do not use as many different writing styles or as interesting of word choices.
Post B
Even though we do not get to know many of the characters in this novel, they are all very complex. Mma Ramotswe is hired to watch a girl to see where she goes after school, and if she has been sneeking out to see boys after her afther found a note to a boy named Jack. The girl keeps giving her the slip, so it takes Mma Ramotswe a while to find anything out about her whereabouts. Mma Ramotswe thinks she is cleverly following this girl, tailing her in her inconspicious van, reading a book while she is at the book store, asking the clerks about where the girls is going. But when she finds out the girl is goiong to a movie and decides to follow her there, she finds teh girl sitting alone. WHen Mma is getting situated, the girl comes over to her to confront her. They talk, and soon the girl admits that she is making up these boys to make her father worry, and that all she wants is a bit of freedom. Mma tells what she found out to the girls father, and convinces him to give his daughter a longer leash before she acutally begins to rebel. He agrees.
The next year, Mma runs into the girl when she is out on a walk. She is with a man and introduces him as her boyfriend, Jack.
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