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Here's an odd story from the Holy Land. It deals with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the land where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and raised from the dead:
Christian factions have squabbled for years over who controls which parts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalemâs divided Old City.
Sometimes they even come to blows.
Priests and worshippers at an Orthodox Palm Sunday celebration on April 20 ended up brawling after Armenian clerics apparently kicked a Greek Orthodox priest out of a shrine at the church â one of Christianityâs holiest.
Police werenât sure what sparked the fist-fight, but friction between the sects has been simmering for centuries. A Muslim keeps the key, and about 150 years ago, theTurks elaborately carved up territory in the church between the feuding Christian factions.
Police are braced for another punch-up when the eastern churches celebrate Easter on April 27 with the centuries-old âMiracle of the Holy Fireâ ceremony.
Insert tongue-in-cheek, turn-the-other-cheek joke here.
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Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
A pair of Silversteins, Richard and Ken, drew my attention this morning to Hillary Clinton's promise to wipe out Iran if it were to strike Israel with nukes in the near future. Here's the story from Ha'aretz:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, facing a crucial primary in Pennsylvania Tuesday, said that if she were in the White House and Tehran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the United States would be able to 'totally obliterate' Iran.
Interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America program, Clinton was asked what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton replied. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."
Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he believes Iran is "hell-bent" on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of the consequences of going to war over that."Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need and, in fact, I
believe it would be disastrous on a number of levels," he said in a speech he was delivering Monday evening at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
April 22, 2008 | 9:45 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Religion scholar Martin Marty—pushing back against an article in Foreign Policy that asks "What if Islam had never existed?"—cites a plenitude of religion-fueled conflicts that have had nothing to do with Islam. He concludes with the fact that great atrocities of the 20th century were committed by secular dictators, and offers this insight:
In truth, the conflicts of such a world would parallel those of a world with Islam. Rather than seek to "destroy" Islam and the Muslims, one infers, it might be better for all peoples of faith to look more in the mirror and less out the window, to promote peace.
April 22, 2008 | 12:32 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
From coast to coast right now, there is a developing story that is a perfect case for the Hardly Boys. (No, it does not involve 9/11 conspiracies.) Passover began little more than 48 hours ago, and one thing is clear: this Exodus remembrance it appears there wasn't even enough time to bake unleavened bread. The New York Times explains:
On Monday, Allison Mnookin circled the aisles of her local Whole Foods store in San Mateo, Calif., three times. There was no matzo to be found.
âBeing out of matzo is like being out of milk,â Ms. Mnookin said. So it was on to Safeway. Nothing. Fearing that the box of stale matzo remaining in her pantry from last year would not cut it, she drove nearly 15 miles to Menlo Park.
Hypothesis: If the shortage had been on gefilte fish, complaints would have been far fewer.
The reasons behind the matzo shortage range from manufacturing problems, decisions by some stores not to carry the product this Passover and vague talk of a possible work stoppage.
âIt seemed like the whole region had a problem getting it in,â said Jason Hodges, a supervisor in the grocery department at a Whole Foods in Miami. A person who answered the phone at a ShopRite in Philadelphia said stores there were sold out, as was the Food Emporium in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., in Westchester County.
âWe heard there was a strike or something,â said the Food Emporium manager, Frantz Baptiste. âThe first shipment we had was a month ago, and we never got another one.â
Phone calls and e-mail messages to the largest suppliers of unleavened bread products, Streitâs, Manischewitz and Yehuda, brought no response on Monday, possibly because executives were off for Passover, which began Saturday night.
But Manischewitz officials have said that problems with a new state-of-the-art oven in its only New Jersey plant caused it to scrap this Passoverâs supply of Tam Tam crackers, its little six-sided matzo morsels, as well as some less popular matzo varieties.
Trader Joeâs stores opted not to sell Passover matzo this year, as did some Costco stores.
There were similar stories in Los Angeles, detailed and also debunked at LAObserved.
"I got a chuckle out of your items on the 'matzoh shortage' in Los Feliz. As a former resident of that neighborhood I can state that while it's a great place to live on many counts, it has none of the things a more than "semi-observant" Jew needs. I'll be happy to supply directions to Fairfax, Pico-Robertson or my own shtetl of Valley Village, where you can't turn around this time of year without tripping over a box of matzoh!"
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April 21, 2008 | 6:41 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Well, not really. But it's comforting to know that I could not only move to Israel but in fact become an Israeli citizen. At least that is how I understand a recent ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court, relayed here on the CT Liveblog:
Last week, the Supreme Court of Israel, ruled on a case involved 12 Messianic Jews who sued the government Ministry of the Interior for their legal 'right of return' (and then to become citizens of Israel). The court in its ruling said:
The parties have submitted to us the following notification:
âIn their notification dated 13.04.08 the Respondents declared, that the fact that a person is a âMessianic Jewâ has no bearing on an application according to Sec. 7 of the Law of Citizenship, as well as an application according to Sec. 4(A)(a) of the Law of Return (as long as the person applying according the abovementioned section of the Law of Return is not considered to be Jewish, as described in section 4B of the Law of Return).
The Respondents declare that in accordance with their notification they will process the applications of all Petitioners as soon as possible, as well as the application of Alvetina Zibareva, and Valentina Zibareva who requested to join the petition on 01.04.08 to the extent that their request is similar.
Due to these circumstances the representatives of the Petitioners requested to remove the petition without a ruling regarding court costs. The Petition is removed by consent as aforesaid.
One blogger explains the ruling this way:
I received a communication today that clarifies the settlement reached yesterday in Israel… The ruling would not cover all Messianic Jews, but would cover many of them: If a person was not a Jew previously (religious definition) but is a descendant of Jews, then they can make aliyah (citizenship) without discrimination for their current faith in Yeshua.
To be sure, I am not a Messianic Jew. Nor do I have intentions to be. But I match the characteristics outlined by the court: The grandchild of Jews though not previously a Jew by religious measures.
I think I'll head south from Tel Aviv. I hear Sderot is beautiful in the spring.
April 21, 2008 | 3:19 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
âOur army is big, we have this atom bomb, but the inner feeling is of absolute fragility, that all the time we are at the edge of the abyss.â
That sobering sentiment is offered by Israeli author David Grossman in Jeffrey Goldberg's cover story for this month's Atlantic, which I mentioned earlier. The article asks what seems like the eternal question: "Is Israel Finished?"
Israelis have violently contradictory feelings about their future. Their country is, by almost any measure, an astonishing success. It has a large, sophisticated, and growing economy (its gross domestic product last year was $150 billion); the finest universities and medical centers in the Middle East; and a main city, Tel Aviv, that is a center of art, fashion, cuisine, and high culture spread along a beautiful Mediterranean beach. Israel has shown itself, with notable exceptions, to be adept at self-defense, and capable (albeit imperfectly) of protecting civil liberties during wartime. It has become a worldwide center of Jewish learning and self-expression; its strength has straightened the spines of Jews around the world; and, most consequentially, it has absorbed and enfranchised millions of previously impoverished and dispossessed Jews. Zionism may actually be the most successful national liberation movement of the 20th century.
Yet 60 years of independence have not provided Israel with legitimacy in its own region. Two of its neighbors, Egypt and Jordan, have signed peace treaties with Israel, but it is still a small Jewish island in a great sea of Islam, a religion that seems today more allergic than ever to the idea of Jewish independence. Iran poses the most ruthless threat to Israelâs existenceâno other member of the United Nations has so insistently, and in such baroque terms, threatened the destruction of another member state.
The internal threats to Israelâs existence are severe as well. Israelâs greatest military victory, in 1967, led to a squalid and seemingly endless occupation, and to the birth of a mystical, antidemocratic, and revanchist strain of Zionism, made manifest in the settlements of the West Bank. These settlements have undermined Israelâs international legitimacy and demoralized moderate Palestinians. The settlers exist far outside the Israeli political consensus, and their presence will likely help incite a third intifada. Yet the country seems unable to confront the settlements.
Israelâs people are among the worldâs most patrioticâin a recent survey, 94 percent of Jewish Israelis said they are willing to fight for their country (by contrast, 63 percent of Americans are willing to fight for theirs), but 44 percent of Israelis said they would be ready to leave their country if they could find a better standard of living abroad. There are already up to 40,000 Israelis in Silicon Valley (and more than a half million across the U.S.), and the emigration of Israelâs most talented citizens is a constant worry of Israeli leaders. âJews know that they can land on their feet in any corner of the world,â Ehud Barak, the defense minister and former prime minister, told me. âThe real test for us is to make Israel such an attractive placeâcutting-edge in science, education, culture, quality of lifeâthat even American Jewish young people want to come here. If we cannot do this, even those who were born here will consciously decide to go to other places. This is a real problem.â
This article, which also discusses the fact that Jews main soon become become the minority in Israel, is far from the first to raise these issues. Avraham Burg, once a strong voice of Zionism, shared the same sense of failure last summer, a change of heart compared to "the Pope giving sex tips.â
(Image: Richard Silverstein's Tikun Olam blog)
April 21, 2008 | 10:12 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
This just in from Reuters:
Hamas would accept a deal creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip if it was approved by Palestinians in a vote, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Monday after talks with Hamas leaders.
Carter said he had "no doubt that both the Arab world and the Palestinians, including Hamas, will accept Israel's right to live in peace" within pre-1967 war borders.
But some of Hamas's commitments to Carter, in talks he held with the Islamist group's top leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, were short on details and remarks by a Gaza-based Hamas official suggested the movement was not abandoning long-held positions.
In a speech, Carter said he heard from Hamas leaders they would "accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians." He was referring to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and a referendum on a deal Washington hopes to clinch this year.
"It means that Hamas will not undermine (Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas's efforts to negotiate an agreement and Hamas will accept an agreement if the Palestinians support it in a free vote," he said.
Right ... Hamas has really shown its willingness to live in peace. Carter, who may very well be the United States' most gullible self-appointed diplomat, was widely criticized for his decision to meet with Hamas leaders. For a review of why he is generally loathed by Jews, read this.
(Image: AP)
April 21, 2008 | 10:10 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Before he arrived in the United States last week, many American Catholics held old notions of Pope Benedict XVI as "God's Rottweiler," as completely unlike his pastoral predecessor. My how quickly the current can change.
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Sometimes sys admin Charly needs to know when exactly he did something ingenious on one of his servers. Finding an infallible memory aid is difficult, you might think. "Peanuts!" says Charly.
At work, I'm sometimes plagued by annoying gaps in my memory: What exactly was the name of that neat tool that I used to flash the LEDs on a specific network adapter to help me find the NIC in the rack? Or: How exactly did I delete all files that were more than a week old in a directory? The answer to all of these questions is in the Bash history, but Murphy's Law dictates that the history is always a little bit too short. And, in my case, there's another degree of uncertainty: Which server did I do this on?
Snoopy potentially offers a solution. The small library with the dog's name, wraps around execve()
and always wakes up when the computer runs a command. Many distributions have Snoopy in the pen, but if not, GitHub [1] will help you out. To enable Snoopy at boot time, you need an entry in /etc/ld.so.preload
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Building Snoopy yourself does offer some benefits. For example, you can edit the snoopy.h
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Unless configured to do otherwise, Snoopy writes to /var/log/auth.log
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EDMONTON - Students have enrolled in record numbers this year with both Edmonton Catholic and public schools, with the biggest influx hitting schools around the city's perimeter where most new development is occurring.
Student numbers have climbed outside the city, too, particularly in the St. Albert public district, which has about five per cent more pupils than last year.
The squeeze is obvious at Elizabeth Finch elementary junior high school, at 13815 160th Ave. in northwest Edmonton's Carlton neighbourhood.
Students attend classes in a converted staff photocopy room, the library, science labs, the woodworking room, the gym, science labs, the art room and common areas.
"We've made use of absolutely every nook and cranny in the school," principal Chris Coggins said.
Excellent teachers and staff, plus supportive parents, are making it work, he said.
About 750 kids attended the school last year and enrolment has swelled to 905, he said. The Edmonton public school is running smoothly now, but Coggins worries about how to handle new students moving into the area over this school year.
"If we had 50 kids parachuted in here tomorrow, we would have a major challenge. We have no other learning spaces."
More than 37,000 students are attending Edmonton's 87 Catholic schools this fall, 800 more than the projected 36,200. The Catholic district had 35,546 students last year, the most in its history, and this fall saw an increase of about 4.5 per cent with more than 1,500 new students.
"This is one of the biggest enrolment increases that we've seen in many, many years," said Boris Radyo, assistant superintendent of educational planning with Edmonton Catholic Schools.
"It seems that a lot of new families are moving into Edmonton and seem to find work here. It's not just a few schools (increasing), but it's quite a few schools all around the city, especially in the suburbs."
Catholic kindergarten classrooms saw the most pronounced increase, with 10 per cent more students this year, Radyo said. Elementary schools saw plenty of new pupils, too, he added.
Edmonton Public Schools had 83,442 students registered last year and now has 86,540 students. That's a whopping 3,098 new students, 2.2 per cent more than projected, said Lorne Parker, managing director of planning, transportation and property management.
The extra kids mean Edmonton Catholic and public schools will get more money from the province, which funds boards on a per-student basis. Extra money means schools can retain or hire extra staff, and that has already happened in some schools, Parker said. (In June, the public board approved a budget that cut 182 teaching positions.)
School districts do a final tally of their enrolment Sept. 30. The province verifies the information and calculates how much money each board will receive.
Demand is up for busing, too. About 800 more Catholic students have requested yellow school bus service, for a total of 8,000 students bused this year, while Edmonton Public ridership has jumped 13 per cent since June, officials said.
About 19 per cent of all Edmonton's public school students live around the newest schools, Parker said. Those new schools started opening in 2010 and include Elizabeth Finch, A. Blair McPherson School in Tamarack, Esther Starkman School in Terwillegar, Johnny Bright School in Rutherford, Michael Strembitsky School in Summerside and Bessie Nichols School in The Hamptons.
"Over the past three years, we've grown by over 6,000 students, so that gives you a bit of context, and the growth is occurring outside the Henday (Anthony Henday Drive) primarily in all the new neighbourhoods," Parker said. "It's not really restricted to one particular area of the city, but we do see really significant growth in the southeast, southwest and west."
Elizabeth Finch School, opened in 2010, is surrounded by developing communities where houses seem to go up overnight, said parent council chair Nicole Wolfe.
The city's 2012 municipal census showed 240 children aged four or younger living in Carlton, with 32 per cent of properties either unoccupied or under construction. Another 100 kids aged four and younger lived in the Hudson neighbourhood south of the school.
School district authorities are already looking at redesignating the Albany neighbourhood, a new community under construction north of Elizabeth Finch, to a different school to slow the tide of new students entering the school.
Wolfe's daughter Quinn is in a Grade 1 classroom of about 46 students with two teachers and an assistant.
"At the beginning, it was very overwhelming. She didn't want to be there. She actually said she wanted to be in a different teacher's classroom because her classroom was bigger," Wolfe said. "Since then, I think she's adjusted fairly well. You get into the routine ... It's going to be this way for the whole school year."
When Wolfe's eldest daughter, Lorelei, started in Grade 1 the year Elizabeth Finch opened, about 440 students were enrolled, she said. Lorelei is now in Grade 4 and student numbers have ballooned to more than 900.
Edmonton Public staff are examining options, such as changing school boundaries, to reduce pressure on overpopulated schools, said Parker.
"Even though we are experiencing unprecedented growth in many parts of the city, the education of our students isn't being compromised."
School districts around Edmonton are also serving more students this fall. Here are enrolment figures for some of them.
St. Albert Public Schools, with 14 schools, has 499 kindergarten students this year, its highest number ever.
Last year: 6,631
Projected: 6,634
Current: 6,985
Increase: 5.3 per cent
STAR Catholic School Division -- nine schools in Leduc, Beaumont, Drayton Valley, Wetaskiwin, Ponoka and Lacombe.
Last year: 3,249
Projected: 3,262
Current: 3,320
Increase: 2.2 per cent
Black Gold Regional Schools -- 29 schools in New Sarepta, Devon, Calmar, Thorsby, Warburg, Leduc and Beaumont:
Last year: 9,166
Projected: 9,254
Current: 9,576
Increase: 4.5 per cent
Parkland School Division -- 22 schools in Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Parkland County and Entwistle:
Last year: 9,683
Projected: 9,957
Current: 9,962
Increase: 2.9 per cent
Elk Island Public Schools -- 42 schools in Lamont County, Fort Saskatchewan, Sherwood Park, Vegreville and Strathcona County.
Last year: 16,353
Projected: 16,400
Current: 16,423
Increase: 0.4 per cent


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HUGO ––Hugo city council members took action regarding the Boys & Girls Club pool contract during a regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening. Upon a motion by councilwoman Francine Morris, the pool contract was approved with one alteration ––an employee separate from the club will be on-hand during pool hours to monitor and assess the needs of the pool and its patrons. It was announced that Joe Ward will assume this position. Jim Webb was reappointed to the planning and zoning board, after a recommendation from Hugo Mayor Stan Payne. Members of the council will hold a special noon-meeting on May 31 for the statutorily required budget presentation and hearing for the city of Hugo. The bidding process for the roof repair at the fire department was struck from the agenda and will be picked back up during the June 4 meeting of the municipal authority. The minutes of the May 7 meeting, purchase order lists and financial statements were approved. All councilors were present. According to Mayor Stan Payne, the landfill is still open until further notice to those cleaning up debris and limbs from last week's storms. "Please tie down your trash, or don't fill your trucks and trailers so full," Payne said. "Our street crew and the county's crew have been picking up limbs and debris that have fallen out and are blocking roadways. Do your part to help."


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Friday, August 12, 2011
All About Vintage Sheets!
[New to thrifting? Check out my Thrifting 101 post from last summer!]
How do you know if it's Vintage
1. I have been working with vintage sheets long enough that when I see a sheet I can usually tell at a glance whether it is vintage or not. This instinct is (I think!), based mostly on color and pattern. In general, the patterns used in vintage sheets are busier and (in my opinion!) more interesting than today's sheets. Nowadays it seems that solid sheets and toned down patterns are more popular, with the exception perhaps of teen and child sheet sets which are often fun and colorful. Vintage sheets tend to be very colorful, whether it be super bright or simply lots of variety.
2. Another way to tell whether a sheet is vintage or not, is the feel of the sheet. For the most part, vintage sheets made in the United States at were 50%/50% polyester cotton blends. This is a big difference compared to today's sheets, which are generally 100% cotton unless you're buying inexpensive sheets. This blend gives sheets a certain feel. They are normally not wrinkly (thanks to the polyester!), and have a slightly slippery, thinner feel.
3. Last but not least, check the tag if it's still there. It's usually along the thin bottom hem. The tag can sometimes be a dead giveaway! Most vintage sheets have tightly woven tags with the information printed on it. This is a contrast to today's plastic-y tags and woven tags. There are some vintage sheets that have the plastic tags, but they would be slightly newer.
The look of the tag and the brand or line can help you approximate what era it is from as well. Some common vintage sheet brands and lines include Cannon (Monticello, Featherlite), JcPenny (Percale), Pequot (Percale), Springmaid (Wondercale), Sears Roebuck and Co. (Perma-Prest, Percale), Pacific Miracale, Vera, Penneys (Fashion Manor, Penn-Prest), Dan River (Dantrel). Just to name a few from my sheet stash!
Keep in mind, more important than whether or not a sheet is vintage, is whether or not you like the pattern! Every once and a while I find a sheet that isn't vintage that I really like, and I don't let that stop me from buying it. If you like it, go for it! :)
How to choose Vintage Sheets
When you first see a sheet that appeals to you, there are a few things you should thinking about before buying.
1. Check for stains, paint, and any holes or tears. Depending on what you'll be using the sheet for, you may be able to still purchase a sheet with some imperfections. However, if you intend to use it as a quilt backing or as an actual sheet, you'll want to be sure it's okay. Keep in mind some stains can be removed, but not all.
2. Check for matching pillowcases or additional sheets. Some thrift shops will keep sets together and attempt to sell them as sets. Sometimes though, pieces get separated. Most shops have the pillowcases together, separate from the sheets and sheet sets. Check there before leaving, you might end up with a set!
3. Check the middle. This is especially important for fitted sheets. They are often faded or thin in the center from prolonged use. Again, depending on your needs, it might not be a big deal, but definitely check!
How to care for Vintage Sheets
Now that you've thrifted a few sheets, it's time to treat and care for them.
1. The first thing that I like to do when I come home with a pile of sheets is again, check them for stains.
2. If a sheet has a lot of stains or is pretty dingy, I will presoak it before washing it. I like to soak my sheets in hot water + a little detergent + a healthy scoop of Oxi-clean. (I LOVE Oxi-clean. It can do amazing things, even to vintage fabrics. I highly recommend trying it out! You just have to be careful as it is strong, so especially with delicate linens or items, make sure it doesn't eat them. I've never had a problem, but you never know!)
3. After I've presoaked any sheets that need it, I wash them. I like to wash sheets with hot water, using detergent and Oxi-clean. Then I dry them on high heat for 45 minutes. The hot water and hot dry simply insure that they are nice and clean!
4. When they come out of the dryer, I like to find a place to lay them out so they can cool off and won't get wrinkly. Then, I stack them all up and put them away! :)
[If you're interested in how I cut up my vintage sheets, see my tutorial here.]
How to sew/quilt with Vintage Sheets
Sewing with vintage sheets is pretty much the same as sewing with regular quilting cotton. The sheets are a little more slippery (I think because of the fiber content!), and therefore may require a few more pins to keep everything straight. The higher thread count and fiber content also require that you use a nice sharp needle. You'll run into skipped stitches if your needle is dull! It also helps to use 100% polyester thread. It seems to run through the sheets easier than cotton or other fibers!
I've used vintage sheets for entire quilts and as quilt backings, without any problems. The only thing to be careful of when quilting with vintage sheets is brand new sheets. They are usually quite stiff and seem to not like being quilted. Otherwise, I've never had any bad experiences using them in quilting!
I hope that this post has been helpful! Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions! :)
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- Mother DragonAugust 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Thank you. I'm not overly found of vintage sheets individually but your flair for colour inspires me to give them ago.
ReplyDelete great post! i presoak mine in a hot, hot bathtub with oxi-clean and biz. Not sure if they get any cleaner, but I read it here: http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/2010/08/cleaning-vintage-linens-and-quilts.html
I would say check for the pilly ones too. I cannot imagine covering up with those pilly fabrics, eww, though it seems like some of the best patterns are most prone to it. :(We have used Biz for years to clean stains on vintage table linens and the such, it works great, too! Unfortunately we haven't had as good of luck with Oxi stuff, but maybe if it was soaked first instead of just adding to the wash that might work better. I use to love staying at my grandma's house on the weekends because her vintage sheets are SO soft! They feel like today's cotton sateen sheets. She still uses them after all these years. Every time I get a package from you, you are so sweet to include a few vintage sheet pieces, and I think I almost have enough for a quilt! So I will have to get on that. Maybe I will need to "design" something for them. :)
ReplyDeleteI am just back from Texas and had a wonderful time exploring 3 thrift/goodwill shops. They are HUGE -the size of a supermarket in England. I was like a child in a sweet shop (candy shop) and managed to find 8 pillow cases in 100% cotton florals to make a quilt for myself. Nearly finished the unpacking and washing then I will photograph to show you :)
Heather xMary Ellen, I just bought a king flat at Goodwill tonight for $5.99. An abomination. That Goodwill way overcharges. My local Goodwills charge $1.99 for twin, $2.99 for full, $3.99 for queen, and $4.99 for king. This is still high I think. The best selection and price is when you're just driving and see an Estate Sale sign in somebody's yard!
ReplyDeleteI keep coming back to this post but still haven't got round to washing any of my finds! Thanks for the great tips.
I do have a question though, what do you call vintage? Just been reading some discussion on flickr and some are suggesting fabric should be 50yrs old! I'm guessing much of the fabric you work with is probably from the 1960's/70's?My grandmother had at least 4 of the prints that you have pictured here. I believe I still have the one you have pictured in the package. I opened the package and made a baby dress out of one of them, and I think i still have one more-- not sure if it's still in the package or not. I loved seeing the pics of them! Makes me all nostalgic!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 at 5:52 AM
I just stumbled across this from Pinterest and I just love the idea of making a quilt. I sure wish I had my sheets when I was a little girl... I loved them! I am not much of a thrift shopper (I don't have alot of time) so I was wondering if you have ever bought vintage sheets over the web and if so, do you recommend where???
Thanks for any adivce!
firstname.lastname@example.com I luv op shops, that's what we call them in Australia. I have got sheets and Doona covers. I used a doona cover for my mums quilt for Xmas, the backing. It was almost new. I think I will end up with more of these than a material stash..lol
I have also bought some baby ones from the op shop too. I wash and soak mine too. ATM I have a extra large, single doona cover that has colored bears about 9"x10". I have separated the 2 halves and I am in the process of quilting around the bears only. The back ground is similar color to calico. It looks kool, then I will sell them together. There are 2 pillow cases that came with the cover too, bonus. lol
There are so many options with op shop sheets, doona covers and even material from there.
Great places to shop.Jeni, thank you so much for writing this! I've been in love with vintage sheets ever since I saw photos you've posted of your finds, and today I found my very first sheet at a local Goodwill. I was able to identify it as vintage because of this post!
I've put up photos of my sheet on my blog, as well as links back to this post so others can learn. Thanks again!Hi there!
Thank you so much for all the info on vintage sheets! I bought a bunch of beautiful ones last summer (all shades of purples, blues, and aquas) but had to toss them because I couldn't get the "mothball" smell out! I didn't presoak them so perhaps they could have been saved. BooHoo!
Yesterday I found a darling vintage, never been opened, set at an Estate. They are 50/50 cotton polyester. But you are SO RIGHT about them being stiff! I was expecting them to be smooth when I opened them up! Right now they're in the washing machine. But I was wondering if you have found that sheets like these get smooth eventually, or if there is something that i can do to help them along??? I'm hoping that this first washing will wash out some possible starch.
Sorry for the lengthy email!
Thanks so much!
Erica :)I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this before but...even if you do find a semi-warn bottom sheet. The middle is usually the warn out place. there should be great fabric along the sides that are large enough for piecing. Also- showing the clerk how warn they are they will usually come WAY down in the price, even let you have it for free. Garage sales are an excellent place to find vintage sheets too. Many people don't realize what they have and will dicker with ya. I wish I had your beautiful variety of sheets...but I am working on it. :) I think a sheet quilt sounds yummy. Thanks for they ideas and tutes.


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Chapter Summaries
Prologue Summary
Behind the Beautiful Forevers opens dramatically as Abdul Hussein, a teenaged garbage sorter, hides from police who are trying to connect him and his father to the suicide of his neighbor Fatima. Abdul crouches on a pile of trash in a room next to his home, hoping that the police will not bother to search the room when they come.
Abdul and his family live in a slum, Annawadi, located on the outskirts of the sprawling Mumbai Airport. Despite the airport's cutting-edge terminals and a proliferation of luxury hotels nearby, this slum has grown up on airport property as waves of migrants from rural India have come to the city seeking to increase their fortune. The Husseins have done better than most of their neighbors. They run a thriving trash-sorting business, in which local scavengers and trash collectors bring their daily hauls to Abdul, who with his knack for sorting trash separates all the different kinds of materials so that they can be recycled. Abdul's mother, Zehrunisia, is the principal manager of the operation, even though she has nine children to look after. His sickly father, Karam, is not able to do much work.
The suicide by burning of their neighbor, a one-legged woman called Fatima or simply One Leg, has put the Hussein's dreams of a better life in jeopardy. Fatima is a brash presence in the neighborhood known to have had many affairs. After setting herself on fire, Fatima survived, and from her hospital bed accused Abdul, his father, and his older sister of beating her and driving her to commit suicide. The charge is false, but there is little Abdul and his family can do to sway the authorities. Now Fatima has died, and the police are on the hunt for Abdul and his father.
Tired of hiding, Abul goes to his mother, and she tells him he should go to the police. Zehrunisia realizes that Abdul doesn't have the disposition to last very long as a fugitive: he has a timid, reflective personality. Abdul is almost glad as he enters the police station, ready to submit himself to the workings of the justice system.
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Chapter 1 Summary
Describing the events that led up to Fatima's suicide, Boo begins her narrative on a morning seven months earlier, in January 2008. After waking up on the sidewalk outside his house, where he has to sleep since there is not enough room on the floor in the Husseins' shanty for all eleven family members, Abdul begins his day of labor.
Annawadi was settled in the early 1990s by Tamil migrants from the Indian state of Nadu who were brought in to work on the construction of the airport. They settled in a low-lying area near the international terminal, working with sandbags and bamboo to drain the muddy area and clear out the brush. The slum's name comes from annas, a respectful Tamil term for older brothers. Nearly seventeen years later, hardly any of the slum's residents have full-time jobs. Most survive scavenging, stealing, or begging. A select few find temporary work in the hotels or at the airport. Annawadians regularly cook and eat frogs and rats as a way of avoiding going hungry. Most sleep in small shanties or under the open stars.
Abdul's assistant in sorting trash is his younger brother Mirchi, who isn't nearly as skilled at the job as Abdul is. Mirchi's best friend is Rahul, a Hindu boy who lives nearby and who has recently achieved the dream of many in Annawadi by acquiring a temp job in one of the nearby hotels. Rahul's mother, Asha, is a kindergarten teacher and low-level political operator for Shiv Sena, a powerful Hindu political party. Like Zahrunisia, Asha is her family's main breadwinner, as her husband is a drunk and often out of work. Unlike Zehrunisia, however, Asha has a reputation for sleeping around.
As Rahul boasts to Mirchi about his job at the hotel, where he interacts with high-powered Indians and visiting Westeners, Abdul reflects on how he envies their friendship. A quiet, intense boy, Abdul hardly has any friends. He is concerned first and foremost with making money for his family, especially his two-year-old sister Lallu, who he dotes upon. Later in the day, Zehrunisia asks why Mirchi isn't at school. Mirchi is in ninth grade at a local private school, a luxury which many in Annawadi cannot afford, even if the quality of the education is suspect, and she wants to make sure Mirchi is learning as much as possible so he can one day have a better job than sorting trash. The Husseins have big dreams, for Mirchi as well as...
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Chapter 2 Summary
Rahul's mother Asha also has big dreams for herself. She aspires to be the slumlord of Annawadi, the person who runs the neighborhood and who has the ears of the local politicians, policemen, and other power-brokers. No thanks to her alcoholic husband who only works sporadically, Asha has raised her three teenage children herself on the income she gets from working at a kindergarten. Because the job only requires minimal work, she spends most of her time working on behalf of Shiv Sena, the Hindu political party. Subhash Sawant, who has the title of "party corporator" for the region, has to come rely on Asha for dealing with local problems.
Asha arrives home one afternoon from work and finds a line of local slum dwellers waiting outside her door. They have come to seek her help as someone well-connected politically. One woman comes to express her gratitude for Asha's help three years earlier in securing her job for the city government clearing trash from clogged sewers. Asha accepts the woman's gift of a cheap green sari even though it is not her color. Another supplicant, an exotic dancer fallen on hard times, asks Asha's help in dealing with one of her paramours, a demanding police officer.
The most notable visit is from an old friend, Raja Kamble, who is trying to raise money for a heart operation he needs. Raja knows that Asha takes part in a scam sifting money from a government anti-poverty loan program. If Asha can get him one of these loans, he will give her some of the proceeds and put the rest toward his operation. Although Asha's teenaged daughter Manju speaks on his behalf as well, Asha does not agree to the plan, and Raja leaves empty-handed.
Manju is in many ways the family's best hope and its conscience. She is currently attending college, and in addition to her studies and helping her mother with her political efforts, she runs a free school in the slum every evening for children who have to work during the day. Although Manju judges Asha for her backroom dealings, as well as her many affairs, it is these illicit maneuvers that have helped to finance her education and could someday lead the family out of poverty.
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Chapter 3 Summary
As riots break out across the city against migrants from the north (called bhaiyas, whose presence in Mumbai is thought to have made jobs more scarce), Abdul stays inside to avoid the violence. Since his father is from the North, he is afraid of being caught up in the violence.
Sunil is a twelve-year old bhaiya scavenger who often brings his haul to Abdul's sorting business. Sunil's mother died of TB and is father is an alcoholic who lives in a hut ten feet by six feet wide, so Sunil lives on his own and is principally responsible for taking care of himself and his sister Sunita. Sunil has noticed that because of his meager diet, he has stopped growing. His goal is to increase his skills at scavenging so he can earn more money, eat more, and start growing again. Sunil does most of his scavenging around the airport, walking along a wall with advertisements for "Beautiful Forever" Italian tile which separates Airport Rode from Annawadi. Because he is undersized, Sunil is prone to being physically overpowered in the competitive search for trash. Finally Sunil finds a situation where his small size is an advantage. He discovers a narrow ledge just above the river where trash sometimes collects. He is able to climb down onto the ledge and scoop up its bounty of trash.
After two weeks, the riots end and Abdul is able to go back to work. Abdul's principal competitor is an old Tamil man who buys trash from scavengers and runs a game parlor on the side. After selling their wares, scavengers hang around playing video games and snorting Eraz-ex, the Indian version of White-out.
Kalu is an older scavenger who is friends with Abdul and who takes a shine to Sunil. Kanul has a reputation around the slum for reenacting scenes from popular movies and telling long-winded tales. Through connections with local police officers, Kalu gets tips on thieving opportunities. One night Sunil overhears Kalu tell Abdul about a stash of metal that he plans on taking, and Sunil asks Kalu if he needs an accomplice. The two boys sneak onto the airport grounds to a construction area and bring back a heavy load of iron which they sell to Abdul. Later Kalu asks Sunil to join him on another thieving operation, but the boy decides against it. He is afraid of the dangers of thieving and thinks he should stick to the less risky job of scavenging.
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Chapter 4 Summary
Things grow tense at Asha's house due to the fact that Subhash Sawant, the man Asha hopes will elevate her to slumlord, has been arrested for committing electoral fraud. Asha is tasked with assembling the slumdwellers in the local temple as a show of support. Asha is able gather a sizeable crowd, but Sawant is late, and Asha has to do all she can to keep people from leaving. As the hour gets later, however, people start to trickle out until there are only a dozen people remaining. Asha is afraid that once Sawant does show up, he will see the sparse group and blame her. But around one that night he calls to say that he isn't coming, bringing Asha great relief.
Manju has her mother's smarts but none of her ambition. She goes to school, cooks and cleans for her family, and runs the slum's only school. Her study of English literature consists solely of memorizing summaries of famous novels such as Mrs. Dalloway and The Way of the World. The school she runs for the children of the slum is paid for by a government grant, and the fact that she actually earns the money is rare: many people in Manju's situation would simply take the government money and hold classes only on days when the supervisor is visiting.
Manju's favorite pupil at the school is Meena, a fifteen-year-old girl from a conservative family whom Manju teaches English on the sly. Meena is often the brunt of harsh beatings from her father and brothers, usually for the crime of speaking out of turn. Sunil is an occasional student of Manju's, and Abdul attends the school sporadically as well, mostly to gaze upon Manju, who he feels is the most beautiful girl in Annawadi.
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Chapter 5 Summary
Ghost House
Although they do not always get along, Fatima and Zehrunisia are hardly enemies. Fatima, desperate for respect and love, feels that she deserves something better from life, and her one small rebellion against her fate is her practice of receiving lovers while her husband is away at work. On one hand, Zehrunisia pities Fatima for her difficult upbringing, being born a one-legged cripple and thus ostracized by her own family. But then again, Zehrunisia frowns upon how Fatima beats her children and is suspicious of the incident when Fatima's youngest daughter, who was suffering from tuberculosis, drowned in a pail.
As the monsoon season hits Mumbai in early summer, jobs grow scarce as construction halts. Zehrunisia worries over recent developments with her children: Mirchi, the star student of the family, has failed ninth grade, and Kehkashan, her oldest daughter, has come home from her husband after finding evidence of his cheating. And yet the dreams of the plot of land in Vasai, a Muslim village outside Mumbai, keep the family's hopes alive. Karam and Zehrunisia believe the village, with its community and religious ties, will offer a much more wholesome environment in which to raise their children. Zehrunisia is a little skeptical of the place, however, because of its strict religious traditions. She is afraid that once they move, she will have to wear a burqua, lose her independence as the matriarch of the family, and accept a more submissive role.
Zehrunisia and Karam argue about the future. Zehrunisia calls the unbuilt home on the plot of land the "ghost house," claiming that Karam is putting all his hopes in this place when he could be improving their current situation. Karam placates Zehrunisia by agreeing to renovate their shack in Annawadi. With the proceeds from the flourishing garbage business, the Husseins can easily afford it. They agree to add a stone shelf in the kitchen as well as a window for ventilating cooking smoke. Zehrunisia believes these small improvements will improve her own life as well as the lives of her children.
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Chapter 6 Summary
The Hole She Called a Window
The Husseins begin their renovation by taking all of their furniture and possessions out of the house and into the street. While some of the children guard the pile of stuff in the street, the rest of the family works on the renovation. Asha's husband comes by and, offering his services for a small fee, joins the construction crew.
Kehkashan observes that everyone else in Annawadi must be jealous of her family for having the means to fix up their own home. But Zehrunisia is unapologetic. "Let them be jealous," she says.
On the first day, the family finishes cutting out the window that will help ventilate the cooking smoke. The next day, they break up the floor in order to retile it. Zehrunisia sends Karam out to purchase ceramic tiles. Shortly after Karam leaves, Fatima starts to complain from next door. She says that all the hammering and noise is making it hard to hear the radio.
While Zehrunisia calls out to explain to Fatima what they are doing, Abdul focuses on the shelf. Because the floor is uneven, the shelf is uneven as well. It wobbles from the wall and will probably not be very effective. He decides to cut into the brick wall and use cement to slab the shelf to the wall.
As Abdul and his helper chip into the wall, Fatima complains loudly, but Abdul ignores her. Fatima shouts that they are tearing down her wall, and that rubble has fallen into her rice, ruining dinner. Enraged, Fatima makes explicit threats against Zehrunisia and her family. The two women meet in the street and tussle, but Abdul pulls them away from each other.
A few minutes later, a neighbor comes in and tells the Husseins that Fatima has gone to the police station and is accusing Zehrunisia of violent assault. Zehrunisia immediately goes to the station and confronts Fatima, proclaiming her innocence. Both women weep. The officer in charge raises her hands in the air and decides to call the political operator, Asha.
Asha mediates between Zehrunisia and Fatima by suggesting a bribe. For a thousand rupees, she tells Zehrunisia, she'll make this "Fatima problem" go away. But Zehrunisia refuses. Fatima goes home but the police keep Zehrunisia at the station.
Back at home, Kehkashan can't help but lash out at Fatima for the trouble she has caused. Fatima only responds with more threats, saying she can put Kehkashan in the...
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Chapter 7 Summary
The Come-Apart
Fatima wakes up in the burn unit at Cooper Hospital. At her side are a host of neighbors, including her friend Cynthia, Zehrunisia, and Asha. Whispering into Fatima's ear, Asha tries to broker a truce between the two families, but it is too late. Upon entering the hospital Fatima has accused Abdul, Karam, and Kehkashan of setting her on fire. But Fatima's own daughter Noori testifies differently, saying that she saw her mother pour the kerosene on herself, and so the police learn that Fatima's accusation is false. Over the next few days, more police investigators arrive to question Fatima, and her story changes. Now, she says that threats made by the Husseins, especially Abdul, drove her to burn herself and attempt to commit suicide.
After Fatima's accusation, Abdul and Karam are put into custody. Kehkashan is also implicated in Fatima's accusation, although she is not arrested immediately. Subject to frequent beatings by police interrogators, Abdul and Karam continue to maintain their innocence. Meanwhile Zehrunisia works from the outside to free them. The Indian justice system is endlessly corrupt. At every turn there's an officer or police authority trying to broker a bribe. The Husseins' supply of money is limited, so they have to be judicious in choosing whom to pay off. Plus, they believe that their innocence will eventually be proven. Zehrunisia enlists Asha's help in navigating the system, but Asha expects to be paid for her service as well (though she is willing to work for free in the beginning).
Later in the week, Fatima dies from an infection caught in the hospital. Zehrunisia and Kehkashan participate along with all the other Muslim women in Annwadi in the ceremonial washing of Fatima's body, and then Fatima is buried.
(The entire section is 300 words.)
Chapter 8 Summary
The Master
In Abdul's absence, the garbage business in Annawadi suffers badly. Mirchi does not have the same ability at sorting as Abdul. Many of the scavengers such as Sunil start selling their hauls to the Tamil man with the video game parlor. While Mirchi tries to maintain the business, Zehrunisia devotes all of her energy to freeing her family from jail. Kehkashan has been booked at a woman's jail and Karam is at another correctional facility, one of Mumbai's largest.
Abdul has ended up at Mumbai's juvenile detention center, thirteen miles south of Annawadi. Abdul is aloof from the other imprisoned boys and keeps to himself. He has never been so idle before, and so he struggles to make sense of where he is. Conditions at the juvenile jail are bleak, but Abdul is struck by a visit from a teacher known only as The Master. The Master encourages the boys at the center to turn themselves around and live according to the law. He tells them that they should strive to be generous and noble above all else.
(The entire section is 184 words.)
Chapter 9 Summary
Marquee Effect
In July, Asha and her family visit her relatives in the country and attend a wedding. Asha is a mini-celebrity in her home village, as everyone admires how she has remade herself in the city.
The farming areas of India have struggled mightily during the country's period of rapid modernization. Crop failures or droughts thus have tragic effects on local families. Many farmers cannot escape debt and suicide is not uncommon. In the areas where Asha and her husband grew up, Maoist revolutionaries have been conducting a guerrilla campaign against the government and are slowly garnering support among the local residents.
At the wedding, Asha's daughter Manju meets a young soldier who appears interested in her. Although she is flattered by the soldier's interest, Manju is hardly fond of the idea of being married to a man from the countryside because she doesn't want to leave Mumbai.
Returning to Annawadi, Asha is determined to ignore the controversy between Fatima and the Husseins. Instead she wants to focus on self-improvement: she takes the courses required to keep her job as kindergarten teacher, tries to better her image, and prepares to arrange a good marriage for Manju. Her husband objects to the soldier from the village because soldiers have a reputation for being drunks. Besides, Asha believes that Manju, with her beauty and education, can do much better than a soldier.
Manju is one semester away from achieving her B.A., a huge achievement for someone of her low station. In addition to running the school in Annawadi, Manju joins a volunteer group called the Indian Civil Defense Corp, which trains middle-class citizens to save others in the event of a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. One of the other trainees is a college-educated man named Vijay. One night, Manju and Vijay have a flirtation and hold hands.
(The entire section is 313 words.)
Chapter 10 Summary
Parrots, Caught and Sold
Late in July, Sunil, the scavenger who used to sell regularly to Abdul, passes a man lying on the side of the road in Annawadi; the stranger has been hit by a car. Too scared to go to the police station for help, Sunil continues on his way. The man cries out for water. Asha's son Rahul soon passes by, followed by Zehrunisia and Mr. Kamble, the man needing the heart operation; they too fail to stop. Later in the afternoon, the man dies and the police arrive to pick up his corpse. Later in the week, two more bodies crop up, but autopsies are not performed on any of the dead. The authorities simply list the cause of death as "illness."
Spooked by the deaths and the rumors surrounding them, Sunil continues to scavenge. He teams up with another Annawadi boy named Sonu, who is kind enough to split his earnings with Sunil as well as offer lots of advice on scavenging and life. A clever, courageous boy, Sonu attends seventh grade at a nearby school when he has time. Sunil expresses skepticism about the power of education, but Sonu argues competently that educating oneself is the only way to get ahead in life.
Sunil occasionally spends time with Kalu, the thief who led him to the unprotected construction site at the airport. Kalu is an expert at robbing recycling bins and trash trucks. One day, Kalu is caught by the police, but they allow him to continue if he gives them information about local drug dealers. Equally afraid of the drug dealers and the police, Kalu feels as if he is caught between two dangerous allies. His father works on a pipeline construction project in a nearby slum, and Kalu tells Sunil that he plans to join them. Sunil will miss his friend but realizes that it is the safest option he has.
Meanwhile Abdul is allowed to leave the juvenile detention center. When Zehrunisia picks him up, Abdul is disappointed to learn that his trash-sorting business has collapsed under the poor management of his brother Mirchi. As he starts to rebuild the business, he fills the ears of the scavengers with lessons remembered from The Master.
One evening, Kalu, Abdul, and Sunil are talking together at the game shed. An old man comes out of nowhere and slugs Abdul in the chest. Sunil and Abdul decide to go home, but Kalu goes out to the airport. The next morning, Kalu's corpse is found outside an airline terminal.
(The entire section is 426 words.)
Chapter 11 Summary
Proper Sleep
When the normally reticent Abdul finds out about the death of Kalu, the closest thing he has to a friend, he breaks down. He has been keeping in the trauma of his arrest and Fatima's death, but Kalu's death strikes an emotional chord. Sunil is similarly affected. As the other boys rush off to see the body, Sunil stays away for a time but finally relents. He arrives just as Kalu's corpse is loaded into a police van.
Like the other recent deaths in Annawadi, Kalu's murder is falsely classified as an illness by the Mumbai police. Because of corruption and the heavy load of cases, the police do not have the time or resources to fully investigate the death; thus they rule that Kalu succumbed to tuberculosis in order to close the case. The police department does use the death to clear the airport of other Annawadi boys, however. They pick up a handful of boys, take them to the station, and beat and interrogate them in the name of their "investigation."
One of the boys taken in the by the police is sixteen-year-old Sanjay Shetty. After being released by the police, Sanjay frantically gathers and sells garbage in order to finance his getaway from Annawadi. When pressed by Zehrunisia, Sanjay admits that he witnessed Kalu's murder by a gang of men near the Airport. As a witness, Sanjay fears both the killers and the police, so he plans to go to Dharavi, another Mumbai slum, to stay with his mother.
Once he arrives at the house in Dharavi, Sanjay begins giving advice to his fourteen-year-old sister about always being kind to their mother. He tells her she should "sleep properly." Then Sanjay stretches out on the floor for a nap and listens to his favorite record. A few hours later Sanjay starts convulsing on the floor. Sanjay's sister pulls him up and finds an empty bottle of rat poison in his hand. He dies later that night.
Everyone in the neighborhood theorizes about who killed Kalu. Sanil and Abdul grow closer as a result of Sanjay's and Kalu's tragic deaths. Sanjay's mother, however, cannot understand the reason for her son's suicide. When they see the grief-stricken woman, the road boys decide not to tell her the connections between Sanjay's death and Kalu's. All his mother learns is that her son "died with fear in his heart."
(The entire section is 412 words.)
Chapter 12 Summary
Nine Nights of Dance
By the fall of 2008, Asha is finally beginning to achieve the political status she has sought for so long. As she grows more successful, she grows bolder in her affairs, not even bothering to give her family members an excuse as she leaves in the evenings.
The affairs take their toll on Manju. She is ashamed and sickened by her mother's running around, and at times she feels so wronged by Asha's behavior that she contemplates suicide. Talking with her friend Meena, Manju relies on the Freud she has been studying recently in college, saying that she needs to repress the feelings about her mother so she can move on. She also wants to repress her feelings for the Indian Civil Defense Corp volunteer Vijay; after their brief flirtation, he told Manju that he can't marry her because of her lowly status.
The holiday season arrives full of parties and parades. Asha plans to give an elaborate party for the neighborhood, bankrolled by donations from her political allies. She plans to have a DJ, a band, and fairy lights.
For Meena, however, the holiday period brings darkness instead of light. Meena is engaged to a boy she doesn't love from a village far away. She's at peace with the arrangement, and even likes the village boy a little, but she had fallen in love with someone else, a friend of her brother who works in a factory. Venturing to a payphone, Meena and the boy have secret conversations for a few weeks. Meena fears the thoughts of marrying without love and leaving the city. Manju can relate, since she believes her mother will marry her off to someone from her home village. Meena asks Manju what she would do if such a situation would occur and Manju replies that she would run away to her aunt. Meena suggests that perhaps it would be better to follow Fatima's example, to escape a bad situation by committing suicide.
In preparation for Asha's party, garbage piles on the sidewalk are swept away and lights are strung from shack to shack. Manju walks over to Meena's house to get her friend, and finds Meena sitting on the front step, an unusual behavior since sitting outside is said to give a girl a loose reputation and Meena's parents are strictly conservative. Meena looks sick and Manju asks her if she is okay. Meena shrugs and holds out her hand, revealing an empty bottle of rat poison.
Manju flies into action, quickly...
(The entire section is 467 words.)
Chapter 13 Summary
Something Shining
By November, the fallout from the financial crisis in America is affecting the trash business in Annawadi, as prices for recyclable goods fall dramatically. Abdul tells Sunil that things will get better soon, but just the opposite happens: Muslim terrorists from Pakistan take over two luxury hotels in Mumbai and go on a killing spree. It's the worst terrorist attack in India in years, and it has affects even in Annawadi. The Muslim inhabits of the slum stay in for fear of reprisals and riots. And security around the airport is ratcheted up significantly, making it harder for the scavengers and thieves to do their work.
As 2009 arrives, Sunil has switched from scavenging to stealing. Although his friend, the master-scavenger Sonu, disapproves, Sunil doesn't really have a choice. He wasn't making enough money as a scavenger to survive. Stealing metal from the airport is a much more lucrative proposition, even though the activity is morally conflicting. An able climber, Sunil is able to scale fences and fit through tight crevices.
Sunil and another thief named Taufeeq get together to rob a construction site at a hotel near the airport. Sunil wants to spend more time watching the guards so their operation will go off without a hitch. In the meantime he works a four-story car garage, where he's able to occasionally lift scraps of silver. Plus, Sunil loves the view from the top of the garage, where he can see the neon-lit signs of the hotels and the airplanes taking off in the distance.
Back at Annawadi, conversations revolves around the death of Kalu and the suicides of Fatima, Meena, and Sanjay. Abdul contends that what Meena did was daring, and people call Kalu heroic as well. Sunil is not so sure of these commendations.
A month later, Tafeeq beats Sunil up and takes over the plan to rob the hotel. Sunil, however, isn't concerned because he's kept himself well fed stealing scrap metal from the car garage. One day, while standing next to his sister Sunita, Sunil notices something that shocks him. He has gotten taller, and therefore is growing.
(The entire section is 359 words.)
Chapter 14 Summary
The Trial
Finally, the trial to determine whether Karam and Kehkashan are complicit in Fatima's death begins. Because of the large number of trials, Karam and Kehkashan's trial will proceed piecemeal, along with many others, one hearing at a time and over the course of weeks. Abdul's trial will happen later, in a juvenile court.
As the trial proceeds, it appears events are not in the Husseins' favor. One police officer testifies that Karam and Kehkashan beat Fatima. Next, more "witnesses" who had not actually seen the altercation take the stand including Fatima's husband and her two closest friends. Meanwhile various government officials attempt to extort money from the accused's family. Karam and Zehrunisia refuse to buckle under the pressure.
The Husseins receive a small victory when Dinesh, a witness from the neighborhood, refuses to attest to a signed statement claiming to have seen the factory. Dinesh said he hadn't been there on the night of Fatima's burning, and therefore had never made any such statement.
Fatima's husband Abdul is not happy with the way the trial is progressing. Witnesses keep saying that the fight was of a verbal, not physical, nature. But Abdul wants to blame someone for Fatima's untimely death, and he wants the Husseins convicted. Finally Abdul gets to take the stand himself. He tells the judge that on her hospital bed, Fatima told him that the Husseins called her a prostitute and beat her with a big stone. Abdul's testimony is a blow to the Husseins' case.
Next to the witness stand is Cynthia, Fatima's best friend. But Cynthia's questioning does not go as she intends. She admits that her own trash business failed as a result of the Husseins, that she lived some distance from Annawadi, and that she had been at home when the fighting between Fatima and the Husseins is said to have occurred. Cynthia realizes she has wandered into a trap, and argues against her earlier testimony, that she did in fact see the fight. Before she can fully correct herself, Cynthia is escorted from the witness stand, shaking with anger.
Next on the docket are closing arguments, occurring in two weeks.
(The entire section is 372 words.)
Chapter 15 Summary
As they await closing arguments in the trial of Karam and Kehkashan, the Husseins' business suffers further. Prices have dropped precipitously. Officers come regularly to be paid off. Per the advice of The Master, Abdul has decided to stop accepting goods that might have been stolen, further reducing the family's daily haul.
Mirchi is able to get a job working construction with his friend Rahul. One of the subcontractors likes the way he looks and hires Mirchi to set up tables at a hotel. But he only gets one week of work and only one-fifth of what he was promised as payment. He is able to get another temp job loading food into a freezer, but it is miserable work for meager pay.
Much of Mumbai is wrapped up in the trial of Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the Pakistani terrorist attacks. Abdul says that Kasab is lucky, for at least he will be convicted of something he knows he actually did.
Abdul sets up shop as a trader in another slum, but he struggles to make ends meat. He does appreciate the fact that in this slum, no one knows who he is or what happened to Fatima, Kalu, Sanjay, or Meena. As Abdul sits idly, he dwells on a philosophical metaphor of water and ice. Water and ice are made of the same thing, but the two are distinctly different. Abdul applies the metaphor to himself. He is made of the same thing as the corrupt officials, thieves, and other slumdwellers, but he aspires to be different: "In Mumbai's dirty water, he wanted to be ice."
The fate of Karam and Kehkashan takes a blow when a new judge takes over their trial. This judge is said to be stricter than the last and more likely to find them guilty. An official comes around hoping to buy off the Husseins' chances, but Zehrunisia knows that at this late point in the game, bribery will have no effect.
(The entire section is 333 words.)
Chapter 16 Summary
Black and White
As parliamentary elections approach, Asha is supposed to be preparing to bring out the vote in Annawadi, but a string of misfortunes has her down. Her political partner, Subhash Sawant, has been expelled from the party for his election fraud. The grocery store she runs has fallen on hard times, and the other schemes for extorting government money have run dry.
Asha's reputation in the slum is compromised by rumors that the authorities are going to finally make good on their promise to raze the slum in order to complete the airport. Annawadi is after all located on private land, and for years the threat of bulldozers rolling over their homes has hung over the residents. The government does have a plan, however, for slumdwellers who can claim to have permanent residence in the areas being razed: the private developers who own the land must construct apartment buildings for the residents. But corruption is endemic. As soon as word leaks that the government is proceeding with their plan to bulldoze Annawadi, outsiders start buying the shacks and coming up with fraudulent papers attesting to years of residence.
Asha herself profits by helping these speculators on commission, but one deal goes awry when Asha finds a buyer for the hut of a woman named Geeta and supplies him with fake papers. On the day that she is to move, Geeta has second thoughts about the deal. She refuses to leave her house and the police are ordered to take her away. The dramatic scene does not reflect well on Asha's leadership.
But good luck finally comes to Asha in the form of a government aid program which will secure her family's future. An administrator in the department of education has been charged with making elementary education universal in India. Asha has papers made claiming that she runs a nonprofit with twenty-four kindergartens for poor children. After the administrator and the officials who created the documents get their cut, Asha is paid a large sum of government money with which she can do anything she wants. Manju is skeptical of the scheme, but there is little she can do. Plus she is pleased when the government sends her her own computer as well as a set for her classroom.
People continue to come to Asha for political help, but she turns them away. She is no longer in the business of politics.
(The entire section is 406 words.)
Chapter 17 Summary
A School, a Hospital, a Cricket Field
The slum demolition begins, but the residents of Annawadi know that it will still be months, possibly years, before the bulldozers reach their homes. As a huge tract of land is leveled at the border of Annawadi, the road boys speculate on what will rise as a result: a school, a hospital, a cricket field?
A more interesting diversion emerges a few weeks later, as a former slumlord of Annawadi and owner of multiple horses is hounded by journalists and activists for the way he treats his livestock. The animal rights groups lead a raid on the slumlord's horse shed and call for his arrest. The road boys notice, ironically, that justice has been done in this case while no one seems to care about the deaths of Meena, Kalu, and Sanjay.
As the rains begin in June, the new judge presiding over the trial of Karam and Kehkashan begins to call witnesses. The Husseins are distraught over the turn of events. Their garbage collection business has failed. They've stopped making payments on the house in the country to which they hoped to escape. Some of the younger siblings have dropped out of school.
Finally closing arguments are made in the trial, and the judge tells everyone to come back later that day for the verdict. When everyone returns, the Husseins' hopes are finally answered: the judge pronounces Karam and Kehkashan not guilty. Abdul's trial in juvenile court remains, but it will be pushed back and back until it seems likely that he will ever actually go to trial.
Over the next few years the Husseins are able to slowly rebuild their business and their savings as all the brothers are able to work. As the razing of the slum grows nearer, the Husseins believe that they will be compensated and given a unit in the new apartment building. Eventually Sunil stops thieving and returns to scavenging, collaborating once again with Sonu. Abdul and Sunil are reunited, with Sunil returning to his narrow ledge to retrieve the trash that no one else can access.
(The entire section is 354 words.)
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