Moth: An Evolution Story
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, ALL THESE WONDERS is an unforgettable collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, featuring contributors likeTig Notaro, John Turturro, and Meg Wolitzer.Edited by The Moth’s artistic directorCatherine Burnsand featuring a foreword byNeil Gaiman, ALL THESE WONDERSis a spellbinding celebration of twenty years of Moth storytellers who have stepped up to the microphone and bared their souls to a crowd of strangers. Collins Complete Guide to British Butterflies and Moths by Paul Sterry, Andrew Cleave and Rob Read.
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I won’t say this is by far the best partition literature that I have read, however I did enjoy this unique insight which encapsulated historical events and experiences flawlessly. There were a few instances where Hindi phrases were misprinted which I am willing to overlook as it was written by someone who is uninitiated to the language and they were far and few! I know little of this moment in history. However, Moth has inspired me to learn more. This book gives the reader emotion and despair from one family’s point of view in a very impactful way. Bappu/Bhai is a rather timid dreamer - increasingly unable to reconcile his idealistic view of a tolerant household and society with the terrible sectarian hatred and violence around him. His one moment of bravery was went he went with bribes to rescue the house cook Dilchain from her in-laws after her abusive husband burnt himself to death trying to kill her – a rescue motivated partly by principle and partly by love of her cooking and which leads to some unrequired love for him from Dilchain (who as the higher caste family members lose their way in the horrors of partition increasingly leads the family from below). There is an interview with Razak at telegraphindia.com in which she explains why she wrote this book and how she came to the book’s title: Alma is 14 and anticipating her wedding. Although her parents are educated, her father progressive and her mother operating with a degree of autonomy, married is the safest place in a land where females who are raped kill themselves to maintain familial honor. And it is nearly impossible to not be raped.The litany of names starts off as a 5-minute bulletin. By the time it comes around to the first week of November there will be 1400 daily messages of girls lost and found, using up to 3 hours of airtime." We get to know the brutality that is sweeping across India. We wait for the brutality to reach the family. It hits with a punch. Why can humans be so cruel? Moth by Melody Razak was published June 24th with Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N Books) with The Observer describing it as ‘powerful and heartbreaking.’ I finished reading Moth with a lump in my throat and my mind in turmoil. Nature literature? Always on my radar, and the synopsis for Moth sounded special. Bloomsbury Children's Books provided a review copy in exchange for an honest review. And so this British-Iranian woman immersed herself in the history and literature of the period: fixing on objects ( a cooking pot, a quilt sewn with tiny mirrors, resembling a sea of stars), talismans of an entire world that is about to be destroyed. We are thrown into a community of rich and unique characters, Hindu and Muslim, Brahmin and lower-caste, male and female, children and adults. The cherished daughter of an intellectual Brahmin family, Alma, just fourteen and about to be married off when the novel begins, is the main character. Intelligent, observant, compassionate, yet convincingly adolescent, she is an ideal guide, but the two characters whom I found most compelling were Roop, Alma's feral five-year-old sister, and her Kashmiri mother, Ma, a woman ". . . almost too advanced for her age, too intelligent, too liberal," as Razak said in that Telegraph of India interview, "[who] was always going to be punished for just being 100 years too early. She was going to get burnt. Because there was no society to help hold a woman like her at that point in time,”
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Summary: This book explains a science concept of natural selection and how animals evolve. It shows this in a way that readers can visualize the change that animals, or in this case moths, go through to adapt to the environment. The book at first hides the moth, and then it gets visible when the environment starts to change, which causes the moth to adapt. Books for identifying caterpillars are very scarce. This excellent caterpillar guide is now available again. Foodplants, Habits etc. detailed for each species. Concise Guide to Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Paul Waring, Martin Townsend and illustrated by Richard Lewington. Alma is the daughter of two professors, coming from an educated upper class family, you'd expect her fate to be reaching for the stars. Instead, the stars are literally dictating her future. When her horoscope predicts ill, her well-intentioned grandmother lies to get her a good marriage match. This sets off a series of events that tears her family apart. Set in the time of Partition and Indian Independence, we get a deep dive into the turmoil of the time, especially the impact on women's rights.If you would like me to run a Moth-themed science, writing and art workshop at your school, please get in touch! feature in the Moth gallery Banish moth myths – Brainstorm what your class already knows about moths, then watch my short film, which busts some moth myths! Summary: I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a great visual and explanation of natural selection and how animals adapt to their environment. I really enjoyed the illustrations in this book and how it helped readers grasp the concept of adaptation.
Moth by Melody Razak review – the end of innocence in India
A huge welcome to everyone taking part in the Great Science Share for Schools! Here are some ideas and resources for exploring the wonderful world of moths in your classroom over the coming weeks:The book is full of memorable characters. Alma’s sister, Roop, is memorable for perhaps the wrong reasons: a very young girl who shows all the signs of being some kind of psychopath! But the rest of the family, including servants, is brought to life very vividly as are the events of Partition. A book aimed at KS2 with a heavy focus on change, survival, evolution and natural selection. I feel this book is really good at showing children why animals adapt and how they change over time. We learn about the collapse of the British Raj and the Partition. I did not understand it all, but equally did not want to. I was more interested in how these events were told through the eyes of a family caught up in it all.
Moth by Melody Razak | Review by Mairéad Hearne Moth by Melody Razak | Review by Mairéad Hearne
This was by no means an easy read. It's painful and harrowing and graphic in its horrifying truths but it's also beautifully written, illuminating, honest and the perfect read for anyone wanting to further understand the partition in all its stages. This one really explores not only the cultural divide that was perpetrated by the British that led to serious violence. Equally it explores gender roles within the different cultures and how even educated women struggled in a male dominated society. It also touches upon the caste system and its impact on different people's fortunes. I felt like I learned a lot but was also touched by the different generations of this family and the impact of their decisions as they rippled through the most turbulent time of their lives. For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from our extensive archive (eighteen years-plus years and 20,000-plus stories strong). Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small-town Georgia, garnered a cult following in New York City, and then rose to national acclaim with the wildly popular podcast and Peabody Award– winning weekly public radio show, The Moth Radio Hour. Cherry Tree School in Watford plotted their feelings about moths before and after reading the book!
Field Guide to the Micro Moths of Great Britain and Ireland edited by Phil Sterling and Mark Parsons, illustrated by Richard Lewington. It was a need to write about something political, intimate and about women that led Razak to the trauma of Indian Partition in 1947. Listening to the radio one night in her cafe, she heard a show called Partition Voices –– interviews of elderly survivors and their experiences of living through the Partition of India. She was moved. “It wasn’t just about the political and geographical rupture in India. It was ruptures between families, between friends, between people because there was so much love there. And that was kind of ripped apart,” she said. Concise guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland. Martin Townsend & Paul Waring, 2007. Illustrations of all macro-moths in natural resting postures plus concise field notes. British Wildlife Publishing.
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