ideas of what someone is like that led to the persons behaving in ways that match the stereotype. “Slum dogs” or slum dwellers never wanted to end up the way they did. Immediately after someone is born racism starts to be taught. Almost always if someone is put down they start to believe themselves that they are not good enough and inferior to someone else. Most of the slum dwellers in this documentary don’t have a stable family to rely on‚ or people with enough confidence to tell their family and
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Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting (1999) is a novel that deals with the characters tragic bid to autonomy from parental and patriarchal control. Desai uses the trope of food to embody the most oppressive legacies of patriarchal subjection of women under the rubric of modern day capitalism. Colliding and collapsing the binaries of India and the U.S.‚ Desai shows that hunger and appetite unyieldingly construct the gendered subject whose troubled relationship with food is in a certain way symbolic of
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To encounter the concept of both physical and metaphorical exploration is the act of discovery‚ which can either be positive or negative‚ planned or unplanned. However‚ through discovery individuals will find new understanding and renewed perceptions of themselves as well as others. In all aspects‚ discoveries can be profoundly meaningful in ways that can be emotional‚ creative‚ intellectual‚ physical and spiritual. This will be examined in the play “”Rainbow’s End” by Jane Harrison‚ the film “The
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Anita Desai mirror its society’s values? What to include: Define the cultural values and ideas of this society. Theme as a cultural representation of values and ideas Characterisation – characters as a stereotype of values and ideas Hari‚ his father (role of fathers in society) Setting – city and village – as representation (symbols) of values and ideas Introduction: (Author and the title of the book must be included in the first sentence). The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai is a novel
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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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ASHANK DESAI-PGP 1979‚ IIM –A “Jab chaar yaar mil jaayein it can be an all night drinking session‚ or a $200 million dollar company”. This is the story of Mastek. Ashank‚ Ketan‚Wasan & Sundar‚ the four IIM –A grads has passion to do something of their own. Its moreover as same as in college people forms their own band group. Ashank has a moral bond with Godrej company to go back and work for ‚ after MBA. The other friends also joined the companies after getting their MBA but they never let
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Anita Desai?s novel‚ The Village by the Sea‚ is a vibrant narration of perseverance and hope in distress. It is a saga of changes and adaptation‚ a little of evil and more about the goodness of nature and human kindness. Based on true events‚ it is a story set in a small coastal village Thul near Bombay. The two main characters of the novel are a brother and sister duo‚ 13-year-old Lila and 12-year-old Hari. They have two young school-going sisters‚ Bela and Kamal‚ a chronically ill mother and
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Analysis of “Playwriting 101: The Rooftop Lesson” A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes‚ so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension‚ exciting action‚ or witty humor. Just as in a short story‚ a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated‚ each viewer interprets
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Anita Desai’s story is all about duty and devotion. It draws a picture of the life of a son. The son is brought up by his father‚ starts earning his livelihood and then‚ dutifully looks after his father. However‚ crisis develops as his father‚ whimsical due to age‚ starts misinterpreting his son’s treatment. The question that the story posse is that how long should a son take care of his father? What should be the extent of his dutifulness and obedience? This is a problem of the modern world caused
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loved one or being enslaved by any object in the world. Authors use different techniques when addressing the same concept to portray their own perceptions on various situations or rather to position their reader to respond into certain ways. Anita Desai and Nasra in the short stories ‘surface textures’ and ‘ANDBWAND’ appear to raise a similar concept nonetheless in varied ways. Nonetheless they both use characterization and style to build up on epiphany. Anita Desai’s stories are set in present
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