Children Of The River Sparknotes

Children of the River
The book Children of the River is about the difficulties and differences of immigrating to a foreign country and having to get used to a different way of living. As seen in this book, Sundara is having to accustom herself to living a different and usual way from what she lived before in her native country.
In different parts of the world there are places where they are less advanced than what we are here in America. In Cambodia they didn't have as many technological advances due to the lack of money and the fact that survival was more important than luxury. Here is a
quote from the book, “Okay…” Jonathan looked up. “Do you think it’s possible that people watching war coverage on TV see more bombing and stuff than the people actually there do?” She blinked at the change of subject. “I don't know we don't have a TV in Cambodia. Do they show a lot of bomb?”
‘Here they did”, Jonathan said “Every night”
Here it demonstrated that in America people have the privilege of being able to have more technological advances than in Cambodia.
Everybody has their own religions and cultures, in the book Sundara had to come to America while being here she felt unusual because in Cambodia she was taught a way to live but when she immigrated to America she had to get used to different ways of living.
When she met Jonathan she really liked him but she knew that she was Khmer which is a Mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism and they believed that you had to have an arranged marriage, and you cannot pick whoever you wanted to marry, unlike Jonathan he was American and he could pick whoever he wanted to marry, so Sundara had to hide this and not tell her family she liked an American boy or she would get in trouble. Also her family picked on her for being too American. Sundara had to obey the ways they lived no matter what because her younger aunt did not want her to act like an American because she thought they were a bad influence and that she had to follow the Khmer way. But in the end Sundara realized that even though her younger aunt did not want her to date an American she said she would love Jonathan because life was sometimes a river of deep whirlpools and treacherous shallows but now all she could see was a river stretching before them clear to the
horizon. I think this is a good book to demonstrate what it would be like have been living in that time period because In the book it mentions them being in Cambodia and that they escaped from the communist and that they came to America to escape the communist in a ship and that they had to struggle in trying to find resources to survive. This showed good examples of historically correct events.