The first theme shown in Sheila Gordon's Waiting for the Rain, is that a true friendship is stronger than any emotion of the human character that corrupts, even hates, emotions like distrust, fear, beliefs that one race is better than another, and intolerance. In Waiting for the Rain, these feelings are portrayed in the final scene between Frikkie and Tengo, the main characters, when they meet again, inside the shed after a protest. Frikkie has …showed first 75 words of 505 total…

…showed last 75 words of 505 total…doesn't show exactly how horrible the apartheid really was. It almost seems like the book closes its eyes to the actual horrors of apartheid. And I'm sure there is a plethora of books out there that paint a better picture of apartheid. Waiting for the Rain has a good storyline, but it could have been carried through a little bit better. For these reasons I would not recommend Waiting for the Rain, by Sheila Gordon.