escape of her apartment‚ and they pledge their love‚ promising to meet the next afternoon at the bridal shop where Maria works. As he departs‚ the Sharks take their girls home and go off to the drugstore‚ while a playful argument develops between Anita and homesick Puerto Rican girls over the relative merits of life back home in Manhattan. At the drugstore‚ the Jets are edgy about the approaching meeting with the Sharks‚ but Riff advises them to play it cool‚ and when the Sharks arrive‚ an agreement
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References: 1Anita Desai‚ Fasting‚ Feasting (London: Vintage‚ 1999) 3. Magda Costa‚ “Interview with Anita Desai‚ Lateral (March 2001). Book review : Anita Desai‚ Random House India‚ preface Monday‚ September 22‚ 2008 09:44 GMT
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near the mulberry bush with white flowers. Thisbe arrived before Pyramus and while waiting spotted a lioness fresh from the hunt with blood dripping from her teeth and gums. Frightened‚ she ran away to the nearest cave and in the process‚ lost her shawl where the lioness tore it to shreds. When Thisbe arrived seeing what seemed to be a horrible scene of his true love’s viscous demise‚ he is overcome with guilt. If only
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The Village by The Sea by Anita Desai. Avin Gunewardene. 3270. American National College. About the Author. ------------------------------------------------- Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali‚ Urdu‚ Hindi and English at school and in the city streets. She has said that she grew up surrounded by Western literature
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Anita Sarkeesian argues: video games represent females in a negative connotation; women are displayed as dainty‚ ‘damsel[s] in distress’ who need men to save them from their woe or conflict. Sarkeesian‚ who may not be a ‘heavy gamer’ (as Christina Hoff Sommers
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West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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Anita Desai’s wonderful novel tells the story of a family living in the small fishing village of Thul‚ 14 kilometres from Bombay‚ India. It is more precisely the story of two young people‚ Hari‚ a boy of 14‚ and Lila‚ a girl of 13‚ with a will to survive. Their task is not easy. Lila has to look after their mother who is very ill with fever and requires constant care. She is also in charge of all the household chores and has to look after their two younger sisters‚ Bela and Kamal. Hari on the other
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wonderful music‚ the choreography was re-done from the musical just to match the film format. I could personally say that the dances portrayed the movie plot‚ even if we did not listened to the actors
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various form man v.s. You can see case of man v.s society‚ man v.s man‚ and even man .versus nation. The principal part of man v.s society was occurred in sections six through eight. Anita necessities to go to class‚ and her father’s companions says that he needs to drop something off at school. The prior night‚ Anita soon discovers the vast majority of the Dominican Republic despise El Jefe. The day Anita’s dad’s buddy goes to drop her at school‚ there was a noteworthy development theft in light
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at bottom of page) Character Analogies | Maria = Juliet |A-Rab = Sampson |Sharks = Capulets | |Tony = Romeo |Riff = Tybalt |Jets = Montagues | |Anita = Nurse |Bernardo = Mercutio |Det. Shrank = Escalus | |Baby John = Gregor |Doc = Friar Laurence |Chino = Paris | The characters do have some differences‚ since
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