Clothes The text takes place in India and in California in the USA. It is an upper class family. We can tell that by the expensive saris‚ the mahogany almirah and the zari that is used to the sari for the bride-viewing. There are many persons introduced in the text. The main character is Mita Moni. Later she is called Somita Sen because she gets married. She is an Indian girl‚ and she is going to get married to the Indian man Somesh Sen‚ who lives in the USA with his family. It is an arranged marriage
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Post Graduate Programme in Management at TAPMI‚ Manipal by Chitra Bengani Name: Chitra Bengani Roll No: 12417 Batch: 2012-14 Date: 13.07.2013 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project report titled “Understanding people’s perception about IPMPlus and setting up a distribution channel for it in Kolkata” is a bona fide work carried out by Chitra Bengani‚ Roll No. 12417‚ under my guidance for partial fulfilment of Post Graduate Diploma in Management
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Clothes Essay The short story “Clothes” is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 1995. Clothes is about a young Indian woman called Sumita‚ and she is having an arranged marriage. The story takes place in Calcutta‚ India‚ where Sumita lives with her family and her two friends‚ Deepali and Rhada‚ before she gets married. Her father has found a great husband from California for her‚ Somesh Sen. She travels to California with her new husband‚ and is astonished how USA is‚ compared to India. Somesh
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Cited: September 12‚ 2013. Davis‚ Rocio G. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. June14‚ 2009. Web. September 17‚ 2013. Foderaro‚ Lisaw. The Library Journal. April 23‚ 2012. Web. September 16‚ 2013. Gandhi‚ Indira. The Eternal India. New Delhi: Sterling‚ 1966. Print. Orisini‚ Francesca. Indian Literature: India
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baggage‚ frames of references and convictions do prevent them from effectively taking on the new culture. The two stories‚ "Saving Sourdi" by May-Lee Chai and “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ are about becoming Americanized through women’s rights and arranged marriages. In the story‚ “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ after the death of her husband‚ Sumita faces the choice of either staying in California or returning to India to live with her relatives or in-laws. She understands
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stranger‚ who lives on the other side of the world? How do you cope with being removed from everything you know‚ and placed in a completely different culture? Clothes is a story about a woman’s life‚ which is about to be turned upside down. A marriage with a man she barely knows sends her across the ocean to the daunting world of L.A. Clothes os a short story of love‚ arranged marriage and clothing‚ with Sumita as the main character. Sumita seems like a very kind‚ yet naïve young woman. She believes
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The short story “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman‚ Sumita‚ and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and the color of her clothes. The traditional Indian attire for a woman is a sari and each one has its own purpose. Her clothes also indicate her progression from daughter‚ to wife‚ to woman‚ which is why this story embodies Mordecai Marcus’ description of an initiation story. The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow
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SMART CLOTHES – “Clothes of the future” With this new time and age of technological advancements‚ the manufacturing of smart clothes has brought about a textile revolution. This involves the integration of electronic components and Nano-technology within fabrics and fibres resulting in the birth of intelligent fabrics possessing specific properties. Smart materials are capable of ‘thinking’ and ‘acting’ by sensing the conditions of the immediate environment. These are sensitive to the wearer’s body
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my opinion about this statement „You can tell a great deal about people from the clothes they wear“. And I will speak about which age group of people care most about their looks‚ how important is fashion for me and what is advantages and disadvantages of wearing a school unifrom. I agree with this statement ‚ because you can get to know a lot of about people from they clothes. For example if man wear formal clothes I can make and overall opinion about him. He is formal‚ intelligent elegant and taking
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items‚ and even through seemingly mundane events. In the short story “Swaddling Clothes”‚ our author‚ Yukio Mishima‚ uses symbolism in his characters and his setting to convey to his readers his rather bleak outlook on the future of Japan. His use of symbolism forces us to really think about the story’s message‚ allowing for a more memorable and thoroughly more enjoyable reading experience. In “Swaddling Clothes”‚ many symbols were used to show Mishima’s perception of post-World War II Japan
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