summary of blue bead by norah bruke
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The blue bead is a start by Norah Burke. There are two main characters, namely Sibia and the Crocodile. Sibia is a twelve year old tribal girl. She cared nothing about the world. One day, Sibia and her mother were on their way to cut paper grass. On the way back, Sibia was alone. While she was crossing the river, she spotted a gujar woman on the other side. While the gujar woman was crossing the river, the Crocodile lunged at her and bit her leg, dragging her into the water. Without hesitation, Sibia thrust her hayfork right into the eye of the Crocodile.
The Crocodile let go of the woman and fell back into the water. It would be found dead in a few days.
Sibia took the woman back to her camp, where the men made arrangements to carry her to a hospital. Sibia remembered that she had left her hayfork by the river. When she went to collect it, she found a blue bead, which she thought she would use it for her necklace.
The story starts with the description of a river and a crocodile and then transitions into the description of a twelve-year-old poor girl; Sibia. Though she was too poor to buy gems or even blown glass beads, she loved to admire the various types of beads, Kashmiri clothes, even the shining tin trays that were sold in a Bazaar or market near the railhead of the village. All the females in her village had different necklaces made from colourful glass beads which grew in abundance in the jungle, sewn by their respective family needles. But Sibia’s family needle was snapped in half, so she had to wait until they could afford a new needle again.
One day, Sibia, her mother and other women of the village went into the jungle to collect paper grass, to be sold in the market. All the women were wearing various colourful necklaces whereas Sibia had none. On her way she kept fantasising of having her own coloured beads to sew various necklaces, bracelets to decorate her thin, oil-browned figure.
he river is full of deadly crocodiles so the women make loud noises while crossing the stream because the noises scare the crocodiles away. They steep the Ghats or the banks of the river, collect the paper grass and return back to the village but Sibia lags behind intentionally to check the cave where she had kept her own handmade clay moulded cups and saucers to dry. While wandering around she sees that another woman has come to collect water in her Gurrah (pot). While doing so a crocodile rises suddenly out of the black water and grabs the woman’s leg between his sharp, uneven teeth.
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