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Bon Bibi is the goddess of the forest, and the residents of the Sundarbans worship her. She and her twin brother, Shah Jongoli, protect the Sundarbans from evil and from tigers. In the story The Glory of Bon Bibi, Bon Bibi draws a line through the Sundarbans to separate the evil demons from the good spirits, and later rescues a boy named Dukhey from the tiger demon Dokkhin Rai.
Bon Bibi Quotes in The Hungry Tide
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I realized with a sense of shock that this chimerical line was, to her and to Horen, as real as a barbed-wire fence might be to me.
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[…] He had become a token for a vision of human beings in which a man like Fokir counted for nothing, a man whose value was less than an animal. In seeing himself in this way, it seemed perfectly comprehensible to Kanai why Fokir should want him dead—but he understood also that this was not how it would be. Fokir had brought him here not because he wanted him to die, but because he wanted him to be judged.
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Bon Bibi Quotes in The Hungry Tide
The The Hungry Tide quotes below are all either spoken by Bon Bibi or refer to Bon Bibi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I realized with a sense of shock that this chimerical line was, to her and to Horen, as real as a barbed-wire fence might be to me.
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[…] He had become a token for a vision of human beings in which a man like Fokir counted for nothing, a man whose value was less than an animal. In seeing himself in this way, it seemed perfectly comprehensible to Kanai why Fokir should want him dead—but he understood also that this was not how it would be. Fokir had brought him here not because he wanted him to die, but because he wanted him to be judged.
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