Sunday, April 11, 2010
I was surprised with Ammu's reaction to Rahel's comment "why don't you marry him then?". Ammu said "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. Thats what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.". This is shocking to me because a mother should never say that to her child. If this comment did have an effect, I think that it made Rahel love her mother a little less. I definately had less respect for Ammu after this.
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I agree fully to what your saying, and i feel the same way. Ammu said this the Rahel so that she wouldn't say stupid things from now on. But how she said this, made me and Rahel love her a little less. It was a reminder of what careless words do.
Ammu is a really complicated character. She had such a hard life through the book, but that doesnt justify the way she treated Rahel that day.
I had less respect for her too, but Morgan is right, she's really complex, and people like us say things that we don't mean when we're upset with someone. Even though it was not something nice, I can comprehend why Ammu would say that to her daughter.
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