Kiran > Recent Status Updates

Lions feel safe when they know their social ranking otherwise they live in anarchy. Social dominance does not have to be proven by a fight; it can be settled by an encounter. Brain over brawn’s. Lions will respect the circus trainer if he displays dominant behaviours and marks his territory.
Very sad about the female black leopard that was killed by workers when it did not attack anyone.

Read end of chapter 6.
I relate to Pi feeling anxious about his name at school. I relate to him almost reinventing himself with a new name once he has started a new school. I love the writing style.

Arthur views the British museum as people who able to decider and appreciate the tablets.

Zaleekhah does not view her marriage as a failure . She has loved, and been loved. What more could one want? She is so lucky to have a caring and well resourced uncle who supported ms still supports her. You can feel the resignation in Zaleekhahs actions.
The Great Exhilbition was first opened in 1851 and has been rebuilt in Sydenham Hill. I had to fact check this and looked at the photos.

Life is like a river that flows and bends when there is a new story to tell.
Arthur is paid and has money. He now has someone to lose. It’s funny how money can make you feel unsafe.
A hunger for knowledge is something they can’t charge for.

I love the tender relationship between Narin and her grandmother. The way her grandmother teaches her about the land and the uses of the leaves for medicine and cooking. The deep connection to the river and to the earth is beautiful.

Impudent

Desolate

Mary has saw an officer with her mum.

Stanley is a flag and on the front page of the newspaper. He feels miserable and slips under the couch.

Bertie is 18 and he is in hospital with a bad wound and Millie finds him. She is now a nurse.

Bertie is devasted that the lion cub will
Be sold to a circus so he takes the cub into the wild. He says anything is better than being behind bars in a circus.
Bertie is told he is going to school in the uk

Kindle first chapter read

Solitary lioness- female lion alone

Orphaned lion cub

Berties father kills lioness