Hi! I'm Clairia, here to review.
This was a cool concept, albeit sad. Death is such a terrible thing and experiencing the loss of a loved one (especially as a child) is absolutely awful. While orphans are quite the popular topic amongst writers, exploring the death of the parents is less common, and I thought it was super creative and neat that you went after what lead to the tragedy in the first place. Kudos to you for thinking outside of the box!
In terms of the piece itself, I found that it was a bit confusing at times. I understood that the characters generally spoke a different language, but you didn't make that as clear as you could have. @Stellarjay actually suggested a great tip, which is italicizing dialogue that's in a different language. That was the main thing that sort of threw me off, and it helped realizing that you were simply trying to build more on that this was a unique tribe.
I also noticed that you had some trouble with the dialogue itself. The quotations were often misplaced and I didn't know where the character had stopped or began speaking, and I had to go over the sentence a few times to get a grip on what was happening. Here are a few examples that I went ahead and revised for you:
"Ewooo!"" Onwu i mee aru oo oo he shouted at the top of his tone.
I believe that the second "oo" is when the dialogue ends, but you didn't make that clear. Here's the bit again with some revisions:
"Ewooo! Onwu i mee aru oo oo," he shouted at the top of his tone.
That closes the dialogue and lets the reader know that the character has finished speaking. Same thing with this next one:
,"So you decieved me? Eme you are not dead ooo he said courageously.
Edited:
,"So you decieved me? Eme, you are not dead, ooo!" He said courageously.
I'm unsure if that is the feeling you wanted to portray with that line, but that's what made the most sense to me grammatically.
You've also got a few punctuation errors, as in missing commas, missing periods, etc. Here's some of those:
She could not, come to believe, that of a truth that she, Asoma is an orphan.
You've got your commas all mixed up. This is the revised version:
She could not come to believe that she, Asoma, was an orphan.
There were a few other things I fixed. You seemed to switch tenses in the middle of the sentence, going from past to present, so I ended up changing "is" to "was" so the flow was restored. I also removed "that of a truth" because it didn't fit well at all and made the sentence chunky.
The more Asoma recalled the painful death of her parents she shook vehemently in shock and stream like tears surge effortlessly from her roiting skull, which is processing a huge bulk of data at same time.
This is super wordy. I get that you're trying to express her sadness, but this sentence is packed with unnecessary detail. I'd suggest editing it down like so:
Asoma recalled the painful death of her parents, shaking. Tears surged effortlessly from her rioting skull as she tried to process what had happened.
This cuts the sentence down enough so you still get the same feeling, but it's a little less confusing.
There are some spelling errors as well, but I think you should just run your work through a program like Grammarly, which corrects your spelling and grammatical errors as you write. I think it would benefit you a lot!
Overall, very nice work. This was full of emotion and I really enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing (and keep writing!)
Clairia
Points: 10789
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