Diaspora in Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting Abstract: Several postcolonial and diasporic writers have articulated the complex relationship of food to nation‚ culture and diaspora‚ while many others have taken into account the ways in which gender‚ sex‚ class and race gets produced and articulated through culinary negotiations. The culinary becomes a site of struggle for both the nation-state and its subjects who are to be contained within structures of heterosexual patriarchy. Anita Desai’s Fasting
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What are our first impressions of Meena and her family? 1. Meena - Meena has two sides to her personality‚ what she calls a ‘dual identity’. She has one identity with her family and being brought up within a cultural family. She has another identity with her friends in a British environment. But throughout the book sharp aspects of her personality shine through. She is desperate for an adventure. ‘When would anything dangerous and cruel happen to me’. As she says here‚ she wants some adventure‚
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THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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Essay The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 has come to be known as Britain’s greatest conspiracy. If it had succeeded‚ many say it would’ve been one of the greatest terrorist plots ever. However‚ the Oxford Dictionary’s definition of terrorism is “the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims”. While many may argue that this is what the gunpowder plot was‚ it was actually an attempted coup‚ not a campaign of terror and violence. The plot was led by Robert Catesby
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Cynthia Ozick portrayed in “The Shawl” a very vivid‚ detailed orientated novella. By knowing and promoting research on this author‚ one can tell that this understanding Jewish-American essayist is an expert in the ideals of the Holocaust. Overall‚ many critics agree that Ozick’s stories are “Mydriatics‚” meaning a link between two stories to approach the subject. In this case the Holocaust‚ at the same time not forgetting it is a horrifying reality. In “The Shawl” Rosa being a primary protagonist
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The Babington Plot Anthony Babington was a young Catholic noble who joined a plot to depose the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne. Sir Francis Walsingham‚ the head of Elizabeth’s secret service‚ captured a Catholic plotter named Gilbert Gifford and ‘convinced’ him to act as a double agent. Gifford would act as an intermediary - smuggling letters to Mary who was imprisoned in Chartley Hall. All the letters were given to Walsingham. The letters were written
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companions. Fate plays a pessimistic role in his life and in spite of having possessed good human qualities of sincerity‚ honesty and adjustment‚ he meets a tragic end. Since Arun has been a victim of nauseating care‚ he too believes in escapism to attain his lost identity. Emotionally starved‚ he disappears into the abyss of anonymity in America‚ the land of liberty. On comparing the Indian and American culture‚ he finds that if children in India are over-protected‚ in America they are left too
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Anita is a documentary that follows Anita Hill through the 1991 senate hearings against Clarence Thomas. The documentary opens with voicemail left by Thomas’ wife in 2010‚ nineteen years after the hearings‚ asking an apology for the “accusations” that Hill made of Thomas’ conduct all those years ago. But what exactly were the “accusations” laid against Thomas? It all started during the vetting process of supreme court justices Clarence Thomas. During the Vetting process of supreme court justices
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A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a film‚ television series‚ video game‚ novel‚ comic or other fictional work. It is a common practice in narration used to keep the interest of an audience‚ usually surprising them with a revelation. Some "twists" are foreshadowed and can thus be predicted by many viewers/readers‚ whereas others are a complete shock. When a plot twist happens near the end of a story‚ especially if it changes one’s view of the preceding events
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The Shawl written by Cynthia Ozick and Edgar Allen Poe ’s The Masque of the Red Death are elaborate allegories that use symbolism and imagery to illustrate the image of death. In both these stories‚ death is inevitable‚ the end of a human life. However‚ in the first short story‚ The Shawl‚ Ozick shows us that death is inevitable and it is useless if you attempt to escape it. And in the second story‚ Poe symbolizes the immortality many of us believe we have‚ but not any of us really possess. In Cynthia
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