Overcoming Suffering In Nectar In A Sieve

Going through a lot can cause suffering, but how you handle it is what shows character. In Nectar in a Sieve Rukmani, her husband and family all go through a lot to cause suffering, together. Hard work can help overcome suffering.

To begin with, suffering impacts the family when they do not have enough to eat, but they never give up. The family farm was not producing enough. “Nathan said not a word. There was a crushed look about him which spoke of the deep hurt he had suffered more than any words could have done. He had always wanted to own his own land, through the years there had been hope, growing fainter with each year, each child, that one day he would be able to call a small portion of land his own. Now even his sons knew it would never be.” (Pg.19) Due to not producing enough the family was suffering starvation. No matter how bad their farm did, they didn’t lose hope. Also, they had too many kids that ate too much. “How heartless are

“It is not enough. I am tired of seeing my brothers hungry. There is never enough, especially since Ira came to live with us.” (pg. 19) Due to the fam not producing like it used to, and Trey have more kids to they’re starving. The family has suffered much together, and can’t provide 100% of the necessities. They find humor throughout their suffering. “There we were, the four of us, hysterical, released, rocking with laughter and gasping for breath which ran out as fast as we sucking it in. The hollow cheeks and bulging stomachs, the grotesque, jutting bones, became matter for laughter, already, though they were still with us, in our minds they belonged to the past-- to the painful past that we thrust from us with all our force; and the laughter was in some measure born of relief that we could do so.” (Pg39) As a family they suffer together and are finally getting upset from it, because they deal with so much. They find their suffering humorous now because of how much they’ve been