Frikkie and Tengo are the two main characters in the story Waiting for the Rain. Frikkie is a white boy who has a Dutch descent while Tengo is a native black African boy. Frikkie hates school while Tengo dreams to receive an education. Frikkie likes working on his uncle's farm and playing around. However, reading books and playing clay are Tengo favorites. There friendship changes over time from youth to adulthood. Tengo is always very curious about everything that he does not know and likes asking himself questions. So he moved to a city called Johannesburg (Country verses City).
Tengo's physical appearance, knowledge, and viewpoints of things change as the time goes by. When Tengo was little, he used to be short and skinny because he was sometimes starved and could not get enough nutrients. However, he grew up to a tall, strong young man in his late youth. Tengo loves reading and learning at school. His desire of knowing and understanding how everything works has always been strong. Therefore, the more he learns, the more knowledgeable he becomes. Besides, under the influence from some incidents that happen around him, Tengo changes his viewpoints toward things, especially apartheid. When he lived on the farm with his parents, he did not know anything about apartheid, and nor did he realize the injustice between black and white people in the country. However, later on he began to understand that the way black people were treated poor as slaves was not fair. Tengo has different interests during different stages of his life. Tengo is gifted with an artistic clay modeling talent. During his spare time on the farm, he sculptured clay figures of animals, people, and plants. Tengo had, of course, a great deal of conflicts in his mind and he then filled his head with history, math, and science books. Furthermore, Tengo used to like farm works in his childhood, but then he liked learning better as the idea that learning gives him the power to change his family's status became stronger.
It was raining. ... As the name suggests, acid rain is rain, which is acidic. ... Now this acid causes serious damage to eggs that are waiting to be hatched. ... But wait - hold on - there is more. ... Acid rain ofcourse. ...
What is the point of apartheid? Truthfully there is no point at all to apartheid. It is just a set of racially motivated laws that limit the Black South Africans from having equal rights to the White South Africans. Apartheid is ridiculous and extremely wrong. A discussion of apartheid according...
Waiting for the Rain was inspired by the unjust policy of apartheid in South Africa. During the unfair treatment a young boy endured, he had to decide if the value of friendship can overcome extreme tensions risen by a unfavorable system. It all began on a farm on the South African veld. Tengo w...
However, this experiment obviously couldn't involve rocks dissolving because I didn't want to wait for generations to get results. ... Erosion is a natural process by which acidic rain degrades solid objects on the ground. ... I waited for a week before observing the results. ... Acid rain is much weaker than vinegar or lemon juice. ...
She has to wait and see if he even listens to her. ... She runs outside in rain, speaks her mind, and even has the typical boyish haircut of the 1920s - flapper. ... It is easy to feel her boredom in the scene where she just runs off to save the cat from the rain. ... She might be, but she is also desperate, just like the cat in the rain. ... She laughs when the woman tells her that she wants to save the cat from the rain. ...
Tropical Rain Forests Tropical rain forests are complex ecosystems, which are made up of four distinct environments. ... Some plants have adopted specifically to live their entire lives in the understory, while others are canopy or emergent trees that are waiting for the other trees to fall. ...
The African continent is home to a variety of ecosystems, from hot deserts, to tropical rain forests. ... Savannas are found in hot climates where the annual rain fall can vary from 20-50 inches of rain per year. ... This rain period must then be followed by a long period of drought. ... Shrubs are able to do the same thing, with their roots containing enough of a food reserve to wait until the rain comes. ... Once rain begins the grass begins to grow very rapidly, sometimes as much as an inch in 24 hours. ...
Between all the characters, there is a constant expectation of rain throughout the poem; this is not necessarily in hope of it, there is also a fear of rain, an utmost suspicion of water and what it may bring. ... "The limp leaves waited for rain , while the black clouds gathered far distant." ... The Waste Land will be re-born when the rain comes and the land will become fertile again. ... For example in part two, "A Game of Chess," the quotation, "Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door," this supports the idea of anticipation and waiting, and all the time being waste...
If there is too much rain the paddy sprout will drowned under the water, and if there is no rain the sprout can not grow. ... After waiting for the rice to grow enough for a few months, the farmer has to transplants the sprout by themselves again. Then they have to wait for the time to harvest which is such a backbreaking work. ... Buffalo, although looks lazy and slow, does not afraid of the rain. They can work both in the pouring rain and in the strong shining sun. ...