Parvati's only friend at her school is Nalini, an older girl who dances beautifully but dreams of a handsome man to sweep her off her feet. She does not want to live the life that she is at the school to live, which is basically a dancing nun. I know that sounds silly the way I put it, but they are training to become dancers who devote their lives to the gods. Nalini wants to marry, though, and when she meets a man in the market, named Mayappan, who loves her as she loves him, she wants to run away with him. There's just one problem.
Mayappan is pretty much Robin Hood and depends on the poor to take care of him and his men while they steal from the rich and give it to the poor. With a bounty on his head, Nalini is afraid that he will die.
I have a feeling that something terrible is going to happen to Nalini. She is a teenage girl in love, like Juliet from Shakespeare's famous play, and from that tragedy I saw rash decisions that led to the death of both Juliet and her Romeo. I hope that Nalini has found a Robin Hood rather than a Romeo, yet isn't one just as dangerous for her to love as the other?
As you said, I really hope Nalini has a Robin Hood rather than a Romeo. Robin Hood is best for Nalini, I wouldn't want her to become another Juliet and leave Parvati.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever want to find out, read the book! I'm not going to give anything else away :)
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