Life in India Literature Project Work
LIFE IN INDIA
Literature project work
• Compare and contrast the film “Slumdog millionaire” with Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight”
1) List as many things in common the film and short stories have.
2) How far do the film and short stories describe life in India? What things do they have in common? How does the film help us understand the short stories?
1)
• There is a lot of poverty. • Temperatures are really high and they are very difficult to bear especially on slums. • There are lots of kids on the streets. • Rich people are respected by poor people. • Rich people take advantages of poor people. • Men have much power over women. • Religion is a key fact; many of their decisions are based on it. • Different types of religions. • There is practically no middle class. • Children's knowledge is due to the time they spend in streets more than learning from school. • Families in slums are very numerous because of the luck ok education • Poor people may do any jobs or anything to get whatever they need, although they like it or not. • People follow many traditions which are original from past civilizations, but they never abandon their manners. • Kids don’t play with toys or electronic devices; they invent their own games or play typical and old games, often on streets. • Poor people live in deplorable conditions and the lack of cleanliness is evident.
2) The film “Slumdog millionaire” and the short stories in “Games at twilight” by Anita Desai offer us a perfect perspective of how life in India is. Both, the director and the writer showed us pure realities and by hard images and stories tried to awareness people and reach our feelings. The book and the movie show and make evident the huge gaps between rich and poor people. This is one of the main themes on both cases because it is a real problem present in India, poor people act with respect with rich
Literature project work
• Compare and contrast the film “Slumdog millionaire” with Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight”
1) List as many things in common the film and short stories have.
2) How far do the film and short stories describe life in India? What things do they have in common? How does the film help us understand the short stories?
1)
• There is a lot of poverty. • Temperatures are really high and they are very difficult to bear especially on slums. • There are lots of kids on the streets. • Rich people are respected by poor people. • Rich people take advantages of poor people. • Men have much power over women. • Religion is a key fact; many of their decisions are based on it. • Different types of religions. • There is practically no middle class. • Children's knowledge is due to the time they spend in streets more than learning from school. • Families in slums are very numerous because of the luck ok education • Poor people may do any jobs or anything to get whatever they need, although they like it or not. • People follow many traditions which are original from past civilizations, but they never abandon their manners. • Kids don’t play with toys or electronic devices; they invent their own games or play typical and old games, often on streets. • Poor people live in deplorable conditions and the lack of cleanliness is evident.
2) The film “Slumdog millionaire” and the short stories in “Games at twilight” by Anita Desai offer us a perfect perspective of how life in India is. Both, the director and the writer showed us pure realities and by hard images and stories tried to awareness people and reach our feelings. The book and the movie show and make evident the huge gaps between rich and poor people. This is one of the main themes on both cases because it is a real problem present in India, poor people act with respect with rich