Blog#6 HOPE

In the book Homeless Bird that takes place in India. In this book the girl Koly is married at a young age to an unknown man. She is then going to live with him and his parents. She doesn’t get along with her mother in law and after a couple years her husband dies and she is a widow. Her mother in law didn’t want to keep her in the house so she takes her on a journey. Then she leaves her in a town and leaves back to her home town. Koly is forced to go out and find a job but she finds it hard because she is a female and the jobs that she finds can only give her food. She then meets a guy who takes her to a homeless shelter for women. She stays there and gets a different job where she has to make sarees. She has to get used to the change between her new workers and her new family at the shelter. While all this she keeps in touch with raja, who is the person who gave her the shelter, and then after a few months she gets married to him. All her life after she got married she had to go through change.

Whelan, Gloria. Homeless Bird. Harper Collins, 2001