Noi and her husband, Ghan believes that the city is a barbarous place for a young girl like Dawan to be alone in. Amidst their discussions, an army officer creeps up and steals Ghan away for a ‘talk’ about his pay to avoid being enlisted into the army. Noi and Ghan are struggling to satisfy the officer’s high demands and will be forced deeper into debt. Dawan and her mother finds out that Noi had lied to them about the city’s wonders. Noi later chides Dawan’s childishness and insists for her to give up pursuing change at the city and instead accept and cope with life as it is. Dawan however feels that she will never be able to do so. Alternatively, she craves to grasp a better understanding of how the present system of her society operates to help build a far superior one. Noi refuses to help persuade Dawan’s father out of fear that harm might come upon her cousin, Dawan, if she goes to the city. That however does not shake Dawan’s resolution as she firmly resolves to go see and judge the city for herself. Dawan and her mother leaves Noi and her family soon after.
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Sing To The Dawn
RandomThe frustrations, hardships and political injustices of everyday life in a village in Southeast Asia are dramatically revealed in the story of Dawan, a young Thai girl who seeks the opportunity to continue her education at a city high school by taki...
