Children Of The River Sparknotes

Children of the River
The book Children of the River is about the difficulties and differences of immigrating to a foreign country and having to get used to a different way of living. As seen in this book, Sundara is having to accustom herself to living a different and usual way from what she lived before in her native country.
In different parts of the world there are places where they are less advanced than what we are here in America. In Cambodia they didn't have as many technological advances due to the lack of money and the fact that survival was more important than luxury. Here is a
When she met Jonathan she really liked him but she knew that she was Khmer which is a Mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism and they believed that you had to have an arranged marriage, and you cannot pick whoever you wanted to marry, unlike Jonathan he was American and he could pick whoever he wanted to marry, so Sundara had to hide this and not tell her family she liked an American boy or she would get in trouble. Also her family picked on her for being too American. Sundara had to obey the ways they lived no matter what because her younger aunt did not want her to act like an American because she thought they were a bad influence and that she had to follow the Khmer way. But in the end Sundara realized that even though her younger aunt did not want her to date an American she said she would love Jonathan because life was sometimes a river of deep whirlpools and treacherous shallows but now all she could see was a river stretching before them clear to the