Motivation to Live During the course of Kamala Markandaya's book Nectar in a Sieve many people lose hope and die of hunger or other various unpleasant deaths. However the main character, Rumania, found motivation and the will to live, which last her to the end of the book. Without this motivation Rukamni, like so many others, would have perished. Rukmani’s motivation was a combination of a natural will to live it was aided with …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…her role. In the book Rukmani has to keep hope with the help of a natural drive, knowledge of God, and the help of friends and family. If she had not had these things to support her, Rukmani might have quit before it was her time to die. However, she kept he spirits alive and even though she had an uncertain future she was happy when she got home at the end of the book.