The Clay Marble

Written by Minfong Ho, The Clay Marble introduces a relatively new topic to today’s teenagers-the lives of Cambodia during wartime in the 1970s. In 154 pages and eighteen chapters, The Clay Marble follows the life of the protagonist, Dara, a twelve-year old Cambodian girl, seeking a home for the remnants of family during Cambodian’s civil war. The novel is historical fiction, presenting the story of Dara in her own first-person perspective. Summary With a war going on between the Khmer Rouge and

Synopsis The Clay Marble is a novel written by a Chinese-born-Burmese author named Minfong Ho. Inspired by her own life story, Minfong Ho created a story talking about a twelve year old girl named Dara, who was born in Cambodia. Through her point of view, you witness a war between Vietnam and Cambodia, but more importantly, the impact that it made to the people living there, and how innocent people had to escape from the horrors of war. *** Dara was a young adolescent who, since her early years

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho both center around the motif of being an outsider. The theme of both books is that you are never an outsider when you have friends and family. This is shown through the two main characters, Dara and Ponyboy. While they share similarities, the two are also vastly different. Dara starts her story as a very innocent and hopeful girl. When she arrives at the refugee camp, she says “I had the strange feeling that somehow I had finally come

Having courage is a trait that helps everyone. Many people are born with courage and don’t need to learn how to gain it. In The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho, the main character, Dara, is exceedingly scared at the beginning of the story and doesn’t have much courage. Throughout the story, Dara is forced to become brave, find her family, and get rid of her fears, ultimately demonstrating true courage. In the beginning of the story, Dara was especially scared because of the genocide and had

Some people who follow Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs believe that the basic needs are the most important needs. Seeing as how the basic needs include food, water, and rest, this makes sense. Without those essentials, one will die. In the book The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho, in chapter nine, a young refugee named Dara is walking back to her campsite after being separated from her family. “I noticed an old man looking at me curiously. He was sitting with his own family, holding a plate of cold rice. I

In the book ‘The Clay Marble’ written by Minfong Ho, several interesting characters are introduced. Although Chnay is a minor character in the story he has an important role to play. The complex nature of this character changes greatly from beginning to end, giving the reader much to think about as the story unfolds. In the beginning he is portrayed as a bully to the young children inside the Cambodian refugee camp, destroying the artwork they would make out of clay. Later in the story he becomes

Goliath. Yet, there has been reflections on the pose as being quite effeminate, thus, referring to the homosexual nuances of the fifteenth century (http://employees.oneonta.edu). This said theme is also reflected in the application of the black polished marble. Even though it is bronze, the pose gives the impression that there is no mass, especially the weight that his foot was supposed to have had on the head. The sculpture does, however, have the volume that takes up the three-dimensional space, and that

Casting art can be used with a medium which is clay, they use clay as a foundation and then they will use bronze as a permanent material which people will usually see during casting works. You don't always have to use bronze as a casting material but they are recommended because of ancient China, Greece, Rome, and also some parts of Africa, this is because these place developed bronze to work well with casting. For the mold of the sculpture is using “clay diluted with water, molten

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Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development was divided into schemas, adaptation processes, and stages of development. Schemas can be described as the building blocks of knowledge which allow us to development mental models of our environment. The adaptation processes are divided into equilibrium, assimilation, and accommodation. His stages of development were further split into four components of its own; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Before Piaget