Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni‚ is an astonishing group of well-woven characters and stories. One scene‚ one event‚ one moment has drawn an intricate set of diverse characters together in this novel. It does a phenomenal job of giving each character the perspective and depth that the reader needs to not only listen to their voice‚ but to stand outside of them and see them as their companions do on this journey. Set in a visa office somewhere in America‚ a group of applicants waits for their
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English soaring on the best-seller list‚ they are also receiving a great deal of critical acclaim. Starting from Mulk Raj Anand‚ R.K. Narayan‚ Anita Desai‚ Toru Dutt to Salman Rushdie‚ Vikram Seth‚ Allan Sealy‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ Jhumpa Lehri‚ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ Arundhati Roy‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Kiran Desai‚ Raja Rao‚ Kamla Das‚ Arun Joshi; the parade of fine Indian writers is long‚ lengthening and becoming
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In the short story “Silver Pavements‚ Golden Roofs”‚ the author Chitra Divakaruni highlights and enhances the theme of how Jayanti’s high class and wealthy background sets her up for high expectations of living the American Dream but later on disappoint her. Jayanti’s mindset initially presents an optimistic future and more idealistic view of America‚ but upon her arrival this idealistic view slowly begins to deteriorate by her uncle’s view of America. This idea raises the question of how does Jayanti’s
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developing countries‚ children as young as five are working to produce toys or pack clothing that will be enjoyed by more privileged kids overseas. (Morris) In the short story entitled “Live Free and Starve” by Chitra Divakaruni‚ child labor is closely critiqued and examined. Divakaruni feels that labor could be a good thing because it keeps food on the table and a roof over their head. She argues that although it is true that they are only paid a small amount of money‚ it is just enough to get
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achieving the ‘American Dream’. One of the major struggles is maintaining one’s traditional values and their individuality while assimilating and not forgetting who he or she really is. The narrator‚ Jayanti‚ in “Silver Pavements‚ Golden Roofs”‚ by Chitra Divakaruni‚ illustrates a good example of how a person loses their individuality and self-identity to do whatever it takes to assimilate and fit into the society. From the beginning of the story‚ Jayanti shows signs of assimilation and acceptance‚ to become
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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children. Children in other countries are living and working in sweat shops that are in the worst of conditions. Not only are they there to make a small amount of money‚ but some are there to pay off debts that their parents could not afford. Divakaruni says they “spend their day in dark ill-vented rooms doing work that damages their eyes and lungs”(398). The adolescents working in these factories clearly are not of any consideration‚ and have absolutely no rights. They are being exploited and
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The clerk claimed to have seen no boy push a stroChitra Ramaswamy‚ a writer from The Guardian‚ shares her opinion and research on sexism’s connection to children’s toy and clothing lines in an article‚ “How a Sexist T-shirt Harms Us All”. She feels gender stereotyping in products harms the public‚ reflecting today’s discombobulated reality. Her focus falls upon a recent Gap ad displaying a young boy‚ a giant grin on his face‚ proudly wearing an Albert Einstein shirt‚ and a little girl‚ gazing into
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Citations: Books -Divakaruni‚ Chitra Banergee (1995) Arranged Marriage 2nd edition Doubleday -Ingoldsby‚ Hamon (2003) Mate Selection Across Cultures 1st edition Sage Publications-Thousand Oaks‚ California -Sangari‚ Kumkum (1989) Recasting Women 1st edition Rutgers University
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