The above said passage Amit Chaudhuri describes a house wife’s small desires through the character Khuku. Khuku wants to spend time with her husband and serve him whatever he likes. So she likes the curfew days. Here the author expresses the feelings of Indian housewifes. They are more fond of their family husband and children than any other worldly enjoyment. Amit Chaudhuri describes women characters in high esteem. Indian women’s family responsibilities, their humanistic activities, their sympathy as it is throughout the story. He describes their dressing, dining table manner, hospitabilities hostage, take care of neighbours. Joint family system and their inequal role in family in a grate manner. Khuku, Mini, Bhaskar’s mother …show more content…
It gave its people, as they wore their sweaters and mufflers, a sense of the wonder and dislocation of being in a foreign city. Even the everyday view from their own houses was a little strange. Smoke travelled everywhere, robbing the sunlight of its fire. Afternoon, with its gentle orange-yellow light, was the warmest time of day, though the wet clothes, assisted by a breeze, dried more slowly them in the summer. And as the orange light fell on the brickwork and the sides of the houses, it was easier to tell, from the flushed rose centre that now appeared on a terrace and now a parapet, that its origins lay in fire.”
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It’s a winter season’s expression. The main arm of the poem is literary appreciation. Amit has done his job appriciateable.
The Fiction is full of humanistic feelings. Amit Chaudhuri, finely describes the young couple Bhaskar and her wife’s first night feelings, their first meeting and the atmosphere in their private room with the poetic mood.
Their very short dialogues, interaction, behavour and everything described gently.
The newly married couple Bhaskar and Sandhiya, on their first day… they were in privacy… Amit Chaudhuri describes that situation
In the book of “Triangle, The fire that Changed America”, David Von Drehle talks about the events before and after the fire that broke out on March 25 1911 on the Triangle shirtwaist factories eighth floor in Greenwich, New York. Firemen who emerged at the scene were unable to save the lives of those trapped inside: their ladders clearly weren't tall enough. Pedestrians on the street watched in fear as hopeless workers jumped to their death. The final count was 146 people -- 123 of them women nearly half of them being teenagers, It was the worst disaster in New York City history.
” It does bend the old man like a wheel’s timber. It does not blow through the soft skin of a young maiden who keeps her place inside the house by her loving mother.” Winter’s effect on the human soul is described in this quote. The old man has experienced winter before making him content and this quote is also trying to explain
The authors words give a feeling of looming death in this scene, and puts that in a brutally cold winter
This is important because image if the seasons of the year were like life. Spring is the time of birth, summer the middle of being an adult, fall is the golden years, and winter is the time close to death. Now read the line again, “Thus in winter stands a lonely tree,” it makes more sense now to think she is the tree and is very old and alone. (Page 441 line 9) Now remember all of the birds have vanished.
”(p. 128) Winter represents the war that has taken over the thoughts of everyone and has taken the lives of some. The sky reflects the war, even on
“Toronto existing in layers” (Mandel) and such is the impression of Miranda as she ventures once more into the vast city of Toronto, after her time in New York. Upon her arrival in the city, a pang of nostalgia hits her as she reminisces her first arrival: “she’d always liked the descent into this city, the crowded towers by the lakeshore, the way an infinite ocean of suburbia rushed inward and came to a point at the apex of the CN Tower…the city had shocked her with its vastness when she’d arrived…” (Mandel). Such descriptions might appear as mere imageries of the city, for these are common sights—the crowded city, the suburbs, and the CN--one can see when travelling into the city of Toronto. It is a familiar setting and something that is
Summary “Arranging a Marriage” by Serena Nanda is a true story that occurred in India. The narrator tells us how marriage is arranged in India. The author tried to help her Indian friend to find a wife for her son. Throughout helping Nanda found that was not so easy to find a good match for her friend’s son. Nanda illustrates the importance of compatibility an arranged Indian weddings.
Additionally , the house that the narrator mentions is illustrated as “ mansion of gloom “ which might be a sign that the aura of the house has something dreadful in it. However , the Narrator reveals something important about his first impression for the house by saying “ I looked upon the scene before me , upon the mere house, upon the bleak walls , upon the vacant eye-like windows ( 3 ).To illustrate , the words such as “ air of heaven , silent tarn , mystic vapor “ used as a reinforcement for making the ambience of the house as gloomy. In fact , in the light of these facts , it could be said that the house has an darkness appearance which might be an indication of its mysterious atmosphere.
The importance of life is emphasized with the use of fire throughout the novel. Existing in a bleak, death ridden environment, color comes in scarcity. The brilliant red-orange and yellow flames of a fire contrasts against its surroundings
“Dadi 's Family” demonstrates how women in Dadi 's household fight to secure their status around the idea of the dominant patriarchal mentality which insists that females are the inferior caste. The dedication to the production of the film consists of following the life of Dadi and her daughters-in-law showing the viewers the struggles they encounter trying to maintain the traditional ways of living the gender roles that have been developed for generations. In Dadi 's Family, it is clear to see that there is a different role play that women and men play which demonstrates inequality between the different dynamics of gender and power. There are many ways in this film where we see women dependent and subordinate to male authority. To begin with, in the beginning of the film Dadi explains the process of how women are traded off as braids.
“Dadi 's Family” is dedicated to demonstrating how women in Dadi 's household fight to secure their status around the idea of the dominant patriarchal mentality which insists that females are the inferior caste. The dedication to the production of the film
An Exquisite Equation Below the worn pavement and below thousands of footsteps, an unsuspecting terminal of tracks exists. The stagnant air of pungent aromas is filtered when the bullets carrying passengers glide by. The train station resembled a beehive; determined individuals zipping through rows of chairs to catch their ride while others frantically search for an exit. Past the makeshift shops that attempt to welcome the tourists, an outlet of steep stairs ascend. A strange phenomena seems to wash over as toes lift off the top step and heels collide with the rough sidewalk, introducing a feeling as if you’ve just teleported into a foreign world.
Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur. Abstract: Identity crisis or search of identity has received an impetus in the Post-Colonial literature. Man is known as a social animal which needs some home, love of parents and friends and relatives. But when he is unhoused, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. In the field of Indian English Literature, feminist or woman centered approach is the major development that deals with the experience and situation of women from the feminist consciousness.
The first word that the writer begins with is ‘winter’. The position of this word to stand on its own line shows the power that has been given to this word. This implies that the meaning of this word is crucial for one to understand the whole text. The word ‘winter’ is an indication of time, that is, the winter season that the kite fighting tournament event occurs. By this chosen word we get a sense that we will be confronted with a particular choice of words which are in line or extending on the winter season.
Introduction Malay families and households in Singapore experience various socio-economic changes due to industralization. As familes and households are not fixed nor isolated from the wider society, these socio-economic changes are seen to tamper with the “ideal Malay family”. Djamour (1959) states that the “ideal Malay family” is predominantly made up of a nuclear family comprising of a married couple and children. The head of the household is the chief wage earner and is mostly the man, while women see to housework and caring of small children. This natural patriarchal notion result in a very clear divisions of male-female domains of daily responsibilities in a household (Nirmala, 1993).