The Waiting Earth Novel Summery (part 1)

Introduction.

The waiting earth novel written by Punnayakante Wijenayake. This novel written in a very simple language. The story set in a rural village in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. The waiting Earth is really a long novel consisting of twenty one chapters.

Summery,  Chapter - 1.

In this chapter is very important part in this novel. Beginning of the story the author was highlighted about rural village in the dry zone. The first chapter, the story told by the writer. There is man and his wife and their child and also neighbor women.

                 Podisingho is the main male character and his only hope desire to own a piece of land to call his own, thriving with a plantation that someday. He could pass over to his sons as their father land. Sellohamy is the shining female character plying a very prominent role in the story. In the first chapter beginning the Podisingho predict about the weather. Then Sellohamy was a pregnant and She was whispering that the pain had started . However they had taken every care to keep the child healthy in the womb. Three weeks before, the priest from the temple had chanted pirith specially for his sellohamy. They are living very rural area because there was no midwife or even a vedarala to give advice . Because of neighbor women help to Sellohamy. Then sellohamy delivery their son. But it was born dead. And also the son was ugly. They were wept and wince about their child. However the dead child buried near the mango plant by the Podisingho.

                        However end of the first chapter ,in three days time he would give alms to the temple priest in remembrance of his son. And also they were wish the child was now reborn in heaven with a straight and beautiful new body.

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