It Begins With Tears by Opal Palmer Adisa
The story in “It begins with Tears” is all about a village named Kristoff where traditions and customs are revered as are the elders, yet there is disdain amongst the villagers for its infamous residents like Monica. The residents of the village did not welcome outsiders and yet when one from their own community brought in an outsider in marriage, the villagers greeted her with warmth and affection. The girl named Angel loved this sense of affection and took to this place better than she took her own birth place. The story line indicates the harmony or relationship between an individual and the community that the individual belongs to by way of residence and living.
The sense of belonging that Angel inherited in the course of her acceptance as one amongst them by the villagers was however not realized by many other characters, which the author has built in the course of his story telling. There is a case of confusion that leads to twins sharing the same man as they are not distinguishable as individuals and in the process even impregnated by the same man. Though the twins have no dissention on this accord the villagers however do not accept this issue.
Monica, the vamp character created by the author, is another cause of mixed feelings that the author portrays through his writing. Monica by character is a prostitute and even though her services are very much a favored one that is sought by the village men folk yet on the face of it they speak in low terms about her and her character. It is only in the form of her godmother that one lady understands her feelings and way of life and advises her accordingly.
The author has therefore cleverly woven the incidents that every incident that ends up in joy does begin with its share of pain and sorrow requiring some sort of will to bear through. The book brings to us the intricacies of human nature that have been minutely zoomed into, and that is what is refreshing about the book. In today’s fast paced life where life has become robotized and people depend on human resource software to single out prospective employees, reading about the relation intricacies in this book reminds us that we too are humans capable of the same emotions but are fast losing touch with reality.
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