What if it wasn't your choice to pick who you get married with. And women were no where compared to men. Everyone wanted a boy rather than a girl. this all happens in Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet (a koyal is a black bird) by Kashmira Sheth a realistic novel. This still happens in India it is the parents who get to choose. Maybe it does not happen as much as it used to, but it still does happen. In Jeeta's family there is her mom, dad, older sisters Mohini, and Nimita, younger brothers Vivek, Chiraj, and herself. The conflict is that when a girl is around her late-teens-young adult age the parents start to look for boys. Jeeta's mother is very sexiest Jeeta can have no friends that are boys or even look at boys. If Jeeta's friends have older brothers then Jeeta can't be their friend. Jeeta is at that age where her parents are starting to look for guys. She must find a way to get the guy of her choice.
The Authors Writing Style
I thought it was fascinating that the author wrote so many words in Hindi. So it was an incredible experience to read it and understand it. Even if I couldn't understand the words there was a glossary at the back of the book to help me understand. The author didn't really use a wide variety of words though some words being in Hindi brought the vocabulary up. When Jeeta's parents are finding someone Mohini her mom tells Mohini "Mummy had shown Mohini's and Sunand's horoscopes to a pundit, a scholar of Vedic philosophy, including astrology". This shows that the parents mostly care and girls really care about if the horoscopes. The writing shows that after every Hindi word she writes Kashmira the author explains what it means.
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