Please help. :'( Construct an introduction paragraph over one of these topics.

Review the topics Markandaya explores in her novel, Nectar in a Sieve:

hope versus despair

tradition versus change

rural life

diverse cultures: West versus East

life and death

love and marriage

people and the natural world

parents and children

Choose one topic as the focus of your essay, and state the theme expressed and developed on this topic in Nectar in a Sieve. Compose a thesis statement about this theme.