From the first time I heard about this book, on the on , I had been pretty intrigued by the background story: that of ten students in the sadly familiar rundown backwater school, and their dedidated, memorable teacher, Ms | From the first time I heard about this book, on the on , I had been pretty intrigued by the background story: that of ten students in the sadly familiar rundown backwater school, and their dedidated, memorable teacher, Ms |
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It makes people feel good to believe that this can happen - that tin-mining giants and corrupt unfeeling bureaucracies will be overcome by pity and remorse; and that rich kids will cross the social barriers to abandon their privileged situation, all for love | The Rainbow Troops follows the students at Muhammadiyah elementary school on Belitung, Indonesia |
The end of "Laskar Pelangi" happened when Lintang's card was dealt with and then the story fast forward twelve years later.
11School nowadays was part of a capitalistic plan to get power and fame | It was funny then it became preachy |
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The Rainbow Troops Laskar Pelangi is his first novel, published in 2005 | I found myself smiled, cried, laughed by reading this book |
But this isn't just good, it's great! The students themselves, calling themselves the Rainbow Troops, are a colourful group — from the genius mathematician Lintang, who cycles 40km to school across crocodile-infested swamps every day, to Mahar, who is drawn to the paranormal and island mythology.
3After reading, I stand by my comment that those 5 million Indonesians can't be wrong, but they certainly can have different tastes in literature to me | Laskar means warriors, pelangi means rainbow, so literally, Rainbow Troops |
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The Rainbow Troops is also a story of quiet rebellion | Must he quote all sorts of Latin names and English words just to describe a quiet afternoon with birds and butterfly in a school yard? The novel was written in a simple language to suit the childish tone matching the age of the characters |
An important book in terms of educating others about situations around the world.
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