Looking for a rain God is a
short story about an African family that is desperate because of a drought that
has been going on for seven years in their village. People in the village were
struggling because they were dependent on farming, and with no water no crops
could be grown. The
rain finally comes and many families rush out to resume farming. Mokgobja and
his family are one of the first to clear and plough their land. Their
hopes soon vanished after two weeks because rain goes away. The family becomes
desperate like never before. They fear starvation and all the problems they
would have to face the upcoming year.
Mokgobja then remembers a ritual that people used to do back when he was a kid.
They used to sacrifice children to please a Rain God, and after the ritual the
rain would come. Mokgobja spread that to other family members, and then they
decided to sacrifice the only children in the family. The two little girls were
innocent about what was happening and spent their day playing pretend. After
sacrificing the two little girls the rain never came. They decided to go back
to their village filled with guilt, and soon people asked what had happened to
the girls. They told people that they had died for an unknown reason while they
were away. When the police went to their house, the mother of the two little
girls confessed. After that Mokgobja and his son were sentenced with the death
penalty. This story shows that when people are desperate, there is no measure in
what they would do to overcome their problems. Many people are like that. When
they have a problem they do crazy things without thinking of how it could harm
others or itself. Many times that is why people commit suicide. They want to
end with all their problems the easy way without thinking on the consequences
that will have in others.
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