Sing to the Dawn

NOVEL: SING TO THE DAWN

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Dawan and Kwai sat on the rickety old bridge above the river 

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Dawan asked Kwai what would he do if he got the scholarship

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Dawan felt that she would not get the scholarship because she is a girl, instead Kwai might get the scholarship Talked about how unfair it is that the sacks of rice stacked up beneath the house is for the tax collector  Their parents thought that it was foolish and wasteful to send girls to school

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Teacher asked students what they saw beneath their house in the morning

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Had a long discussion with the students about the landlord taking away sacks of rice beneath their houses

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 A student spotted the headmaster heading to their class and the student shouted "hes coming" Teacher and student immediately pretended that they are having !eography lessons until the headmaster went away

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Teacher and student discussed what they should do if they won the scholarship

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Teacher announced that Dawan won the scholarship

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lassmates surrounded Dawan as soon as they heard that she won the scholarship

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Kwai was unhappy and sad that Dawan won the scholarship instead of him

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Dawan told her family that she got the scholarship and that made her parents angry# Her father was especially angry and said that she took her own brothers chance away from him#

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Dawans grandmother however supported her 

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Dawan and her grandmother headed to $ois house and halfway, Dawans mother decided to go with Dawan instead of her grandmother 

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$oi said that going to the city was useless

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 Army officer made deal with $ois family in order not to bring !han to the army

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Kwai realised that $oi and !han do not support Dawan in going to the city

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Kwai came in second in the examination

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%f Dawan does not go to the city, Kwai gets to go instead of her 

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Dawans father didnt want her to go to the city

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Kwai asked his father if he had won the scholarship, would he allow him to go to the city Kwais dad thought that boys going to the city to futher his studies would be

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NOVEL: SING TO THE DAWN better than girls

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Dawan went to the marketplace alone and met a girl that sells lotus bud and caged sparrows

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Dawan realised that the girl, &ao, was the sister of her classmate

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Dawan went to see the old monk

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Dawans teacher and the old monk are good friends

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'ld monk does not really see why Dawan should go to the city school

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&ao allowed Dawan to free a bird for free

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&aos brother, (ichai, came to the market stall and hit her because she freed a bird for free Kwai stopped (ichai from hitting &ao

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 After realising that &ao knew about what happened between Dawan and Kwai, Kwai wanted to slap &ao

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Kwai pushed Dawan away when she tried to stop Kwai, unfortunately she landed on top of a pile of broken bird cages, in)uring herself  ousin $oi helped Dawan with her wound

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Dawan and Kwai were at the river 

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Kwai was thinking about Dawans words, about him being a bully

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Dawan passed Kwai her umbrella caringly as it was raining

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Kwai made a decision

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Kwais father heard from his teacher that he got second in the test and was angry at Kwai for not telling him so *ather spoke to both Kwai and Dawan together 

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*ather was very reluctant and unconvinced that Dawan should go to the city school  After much persuasion from Dawan and Kwai, father finally allowed Dawan to go to the city school Kwai will miss Dawan once she goes to the city school, no one will be there to watch the sunrise with him  At first Dawan was unsure if she wanted to leave as she will miss everything in her village  After her grandmother talked to Dawan, she decided to go +hen she was boarding the bus to go to the city, Kwai was nowhere to be seen  Although many people in the village sent her off, she was not happy as Kwai

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was not there During the bus )ourney, she saw Kwai on the bridge that they usually went to, he was waving at her# &idding goodbye