couple focuses on improving their communication skills and forgiving each other. Then they will have a better chance of lasting longer. Forgiveness is a big deal when it comes to bringing people back into the relationship. For example‚ in the story Temporary Matter “She came back to the table and sat down‚ and after a moment Shukumar joined her. They wept together‚ for the things they now knew” (Page 24). At the end of the story after shoba found out the gender of the baby‚ she wept for a while because
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ENGL: 1800 American Ethnic Literatures A Temporary Matter “The notice informed then that it was a temporary matter” (1). Lahiri’s title of choice for this short story implores both literal and figurative interpretation. While the words appear direct in meaning‚ they could instead be a metaphoric figure of speech‚ or rather a deliberate exaggeration to convey something other than the literal meaning. Furthermore‚ the use of a notice to inform someone of something can often be used as part
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A Temporary Matter Husband and wife Shukumar and Shoba are notified that their electricity will be turned off at 8:00PM for five evenings in a row in order to fix a power line. Shoba tells her husband this news. He looks at her‚ noticing that her makeup has run from her time at the gym. He reminisces about how she would look in the morning after a party in happier times. Shoba insists that the electric company should work on the lines during the day. Shukumar takes slight offense at this idea; since
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The temporary transvestite films have offered a different perspective for a mass audience that isn’t used to these different gender constructions. In the movie I watched‚ Some Like it Hot‚ they did a very good job by making the whole disguise thing very funny and easy to follow once you get into it. It wasn’t normal at all back in the 50s for any one sex to dress like another. There was a very large audience that wanted to see these transvestites dressed in different situations‚ getting away from
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Death and change are a part of life that cannot be escaped; everyone at some point in his or her life will have to work through the grief of losing a loved one. Grief is the process that we go through to let go of old habits and starts a new way of life. We all need to examine the way we deal with these changes in our lives. When we understand our reactions to changes that happen in our lives we will be able to accept these changes and the grieving process will be easier. In the book ‘Interpreter
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By Reason of Insanity: Should Defendants with Traumatic Brain Injuries Be Held Accountable for Their Actions Carolynn Sargent Everest University ENC 1102-12 12/28/12 “Six weeks after getting his driver’s license‚ Christopher Tiegreen was in a car collision near his home in Gainesville‚ Ga. Tiegreen’s Isuzu Trooper flipped several times‚ causing severe head injuries. A month later‚ Tiegreen emerged from a coma a different person. The impact of the crash caused damage to the frontal lobe of his
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In the first story‚ A Temporary Matter‚ it is Shukumar’s guilt that divide the couple rather than their inability to communicate. During the day‚ he decides to work on his novel and eat in the room that was meant to be the babies “because it [is] a place Shoba [avoids]‚” (8). This contrasts Shoba’s decision to “[take] her plate to the living room‚” which is an area accessible to both of them‚ showing that she is at least making an effort while Shukumar cowers in another room (8). This solitude stems
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“A Temporary Matter” By Jhumpa Lahiri 1. The story is about the marriage of the 2 main characters‚ Shukumar and his wife‚ Shoba. The story begins when Shoba‚ returning home from the gym‚ finds a notice from the electric company letting the people of their street know that nightly there will be an hour long outage while they are repairing some lines that had been downed during their last snowstorm. Shukumar is comparing the differences in his head from his wife the way she was when they had
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The story A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri is about a couple dealing with the stillbirth of their child. In the six months since‚ the couple‚ Shoba and Shukamar‚ have grown distant from each other. When the power is scheduled to go out during dinner every night due to maintenance‚ they begin to play a game where they reveal secrets to each other in the dark. The game allows for the couple to learn more about each other and grow closer‚ however all is fleeting when Shoba reveals that she is leaving
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Means and Ends: How Hamlet’s supposed insanity justifies and masks his true goal of revenge In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Hamlet uses “comedy” and insanity as a façade to mask his inner turmoil. By using humor and insanity‚ he can misdirect his own means of whether or not he wants to kill his father’s murderer‚ King Claudius. Hamlet believes that if he can keep people off balance regarding his physical state of mind‚ they will question only his sanity‚ not his ultimate plot of revenge. However
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