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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‘Anita and Me’ is a first person narrative novel published in 1996. It was written by a British Asian actress and writer Meera Syal. The author grew up just outside Wolverhampton‚ where the novel Anita and Me is set‚ around the 1960s and 70s called Tollington. The novel is mainly focused on Syal’s own life and what was happening around her at that time. Moreover‚ life in the 1960s – 70s was rough for people who were immigrating and also people of Tollington as industrial were getting closed; which
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EXISTENTIALIST FOCUS ON PROTAGONIST SITA - ANITA DESAI’S -WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER ? The protagonist herself has an existential entity. Desai‚ has presented an intense identity crisis of the central character Sita‚ a sensitive woman in her late forties.Existentialism’ is a difficult term to define and an odd movement as many feel‚ but it not totally impossible to define. ‘Existentialists’‚ tend to take freedom of the will‚ the human power to do or not do‚ as absolutely obvious. Only now
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Walt Whitman’s poem‚ ‘A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim’‚ describes the conditions in a civil war camp hospital. The speaker of the poem‚ Whitman himself‚ depicts the eerie scene of a medical tent during the civil war. The speaker wakes up to the haze of ‘daybreak’ and encounters 3 unattended dead bodies of 3 dead soldiers. Whitman goes into detail describing the faces of the fallen soldiers. Constantly asking himself “who” the men really are. With the use of his diction and other literary
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the authorities‚ moving from one ill-paid job to another. What binds these seemingly disparate characters is a shared historical legacy and a common experience of impotence and humiliation. "Certain moves made long ago had produced all of them‚" Desai writes‚ referring to centuries of subjection by the economic and cultural power of the West. But the beginnings of an apparently leveled field in a late-20th-century global economy serve merely to scratch those wounds rather than heal them. Almost
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Post Colonial Impact on Urdu Language Lovers in Anita Desai’s In Custody Dr.A.CHANDRA BOSE‚ PhD.‚ Assistant Professor of English The Madura College (Autonomous) Madurai‚ Tamilnadu -625 011 boseac@gmail.com Introduction Anita Desai is an important women novelist in the firmament of Indian fiction in English. She unfolds lot of complex things for example‚ struggles of innocents‚ problems of human relationship and decay of Urdu language
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Prof. Kalogeris Hector Manuel Alcaraz THIRD ESSAY ON WHITMAN Walt Whitman starts this poem just as he usually does‚ repeating the title as the first sentence‚ making the reader assimilate the gray and dim atmosphere‚ blending with a picture of a sleep depraved narriator. Having the poem just started we raise the question why is he so sleepless if its morning. It can be hard for us to grasp the true meaning of this word because when we wake up we do so fully rested in a
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nation. For example‚ Anita Hill put her integrity on the block for sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas. She may have lost the battle to Judge Thomas and his appointment as a Supreme Court Justice‚ but she won the war when it came to helping thousands upon thousands of women of every denomination in America to stand up to sexual harassment in the work place. African American women continue to gain leadership skills and positions to become educators‚ principals‚ politicians‚ professors‚ business
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Findings and Analysis Pigeon-pea is known by various names across the country. In North India‚ it is referred to as toor daal. The grain is called Gandule in Orissa‚ and many other parts of India. It is believed to be a native Indian pulse‚ and is a very rich source of protein‚ and has high nutritional value. Moreover‚ it doesn’t have very high input requirements‚ in terms of soil fertility and irrigation. As mentioned above‚ we tried to understand the value chain of Pigeon-Pea through the markets
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was quickly gaining ground as women began to be granted job positions which had been predominantly male roles‚ and were no longer confined to a life of dreary domesticity‚ this is reflected in the way Anita is living‚ and her general thoughts on the idea of living as a mother and house wife. Anita is a well-educated‚ self-supportive woman who rejects the male ideals of being a dainty‚ do-nothing
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