Mma Ramotswe Chapter 2 Summary

The novel, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, is an inspiring story about a Motswana woman, Mma Precious Ramotswe, who founded the first private detective agency in her country Botswana, Africa. Mma Ramotswe is a large African women with a talent for solving mysteries. She is a very strong, independant woman who went through a collection of hardships in her life. Her story is truly inspiring and showed me that no matter where you come from and what you have been through, anything is possible. There was a time when Mma Ramotswe was living with her cousin and her cousin's husband. During this time she met Note Mokoti. She was young, naive, and trusted men. She jumped right into a marriage with him and once the marriage became abusive, she was stuck. He hit
Paliwalar Patel, a very rich, old fashioned man who lives in a huge mansion, calls Mma Ramotswe concerned about his sixteen-year old daughter, Nandria. He is nervous and anxious that she has a secret boyfriend with whom she sneaks around. Mma Ramotswe is assigned to follow her and find out about this “boyfriend.” In this chapter, Mma Ramotswe’s perseverance and dedication really shows as she follows Nandria carefully wherever she goes, even coming back the next day after she lost her. “Mma Ramotswe judged it was time to go round the corner. She did so, expecting to see Nandria several hundred yards down the road, but when looked down it, the road was empty.” (Smith 106) Even after losing Nandria, she didn't give up quite yet. Her determination is so great that she went door to door, using her white lies to get some more information. The next day she followed Nandria to the mall with a friend, stalking them everywhere they went. At the end of the case, Mma Ramotswe finds out that there was no boyfriend and she was purposely leaving clues for him to get him angry. I thought the ending of that case was funny and