"Thanks to my dads translations we stayed away from hot dogs, cat fishand hush puppies, and no amount of caviar in the sea would have convinced us to try mud pies"
I think all immigrants have the same problem because of our sarcasim in our vocabulary. When I was younger i wouldn't eat mud pies because i thought they were made of mud. this connects to children in the river not a lot because Sundara understands the Sacasim Americans have.
"He was the only one who read each and every document before he signed it"
I think every one who does sign something should have to read the pages because what if the papers say like you have to work for free for 3 years or something. In Children Of the River they also should read all of the info putting out there like if jonathon payed attention when sundara tried to explain the situation of her not being able to see him then Sundara wouldnt be in trouble.
As you will learn there are a lot of documents out there that are very difficult to read and when you add the language into it-that makes it so much harder.
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