Leffingwell Elementary School

"Until my first day at Leffingwell Elementary School, I had never thought of my mother as an embarrassment, but the sight of all the kids staring at us before the bell rang was enough to make me pretend I didn't know her."

I can relate to this quote because when I was younger my mother used to come into school and help out the teacher, I thought it was the most embarrassing thing ever, I still do. I feel like my mom isn't embarrassing at home, but once I go out in public things get seem to make me a lot more embarrassed, like wondering and worrying about seeing someone I know.


"Unable to thank them in words, we smiled even more broadly."


I can slightly relate to this because sometimes, like at parent teacher conferences I never know what to say. At those conferences I just smile, a lot because I can never think of anything to say  besides, "Yeah." or "Uh huh."


These two quotes relate to Children of the River because Sundara often gets embarrassed, also, since she is just learning English she doesn't know what to say all the time. She is picking up the language quickly, but sometimes the words just do not come out.