Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure is a story of a Australian journalist, Sarah Macdonald who joins her love, Jonathan Harley a correspondent for Australia Broadcasting Company (ABC) and re-visit India. Sarah is famous as a political correspondent at the Australia Broadcasting Radio News, Triple J, hosting several television production at ABC. She is currently working as a Senior Editor at Debrief Daily, In her early twenties, Sarah backpacked her way around India. It give her a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty of India. When at the airport, a beggar read her palm and told her that she would return to India for love in the future which she of course did not believe him. It is then and there she decided that she hated India. She vowed to never return saying “Goodbye and good riddance India, I hate you and I’m never ever, ever coming back.” (pp3) However, the prophecy came true almost eleven years later. Sarah decided to quit her job and relocate to New Delhi, India, the most polluted city on earth when Jonathan’s journalism work requires him there. This seems to be the ultimate sacrifice for love for her to give up her blossoming radio career in Sydney and it almost kill her. In the beginning, Sarah hated everything …show more content…
She visited Allahabad for the Maha Kumbh Mela gathering on the banks of the Ganges, Tamil Nadu’s Virgin Mary Basilica at Velangani, the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sai Baba Ashram near Bangalore, Mata Amritanandamayi’s Ashram in Kerala, Jain temple in Delhi and the meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the tibetan Buddhist center. She also explores smaller, more marginal traditions, including Vipassana Buddhist meditation where one are to keep silence for all of the ten days, the Parsis of Malabar Hill and the now-fading Bene Israel Jewish community. It help her gain an understanding about various religions in India and how they co-exist
She was pregnant before married, and to save her family name, the family agreed to kill Sarah’s fetus by abortion. In this reading, Drayton used Sarah story to show the reader about what
In the first section of Chapter 1 of Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras, the author Diana Eck discusses her personal experience from exploring the encounter of Bozeman and Banaras. The author raises many interesting questions in this section about religious differences, what it means to be of a certain religion, if the label of being a certain religion matters or defines oneself, what another culture or religion means to an individual of another religion, and how members of different religions view one another. Eck explains how she was raised as a Christian in Bozeman under an influence of the church, and during her college years, she travelled to Banaras in India and she experienced a challenge in her faith by observing
Sarah was there to get away from the world and stop doing drugs. One may think that the road is a metaphor. It represents the road of life, that one will find hard trials and tribulations, but on the way discovers life and
Sarah ignored the fact that she could be thrown in prison if she goes. Her bond with Hetty makes her use her courage to save her friend and to stand up to her mother. She explained, “I don’t know if I can do anything, but I can’t sit here on my hands… I’m going back to Charleston. I can at least try and convince my mother to sell them to me so I can set them free. ”(343).
She swayed their emotions and that could possible cause them to be confused about why they are so against Indians. Though a man interrupted by reminding the crowd that Indians were their archenemies and Magawisca was only trying to cloud their judgement, they were still confused. She left them with a “strange contrariety of opinion and feelings.” There may come a time in one’s life when they are put in a position to go against what they are taught in order to do something they may feel is right. Even though her wish was not granted, the fact that she made them question their teachings says a lot.
Deep River is a book written by Shusaku Endo. In the book with you can read 4 main stories about seeking to find oh rather said looking to be more spiritual by following the ritual and myths in a way to be in a better spiritual connection. Each character has a very important role because one of them is in search of something that helps them to understand and manage their spirituality and emotions in a way that is comfortable. Something very curious about the book is that each chapter is mentioned with the name case. For each story gave me an idea of how I would develop the story.
In the short stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “Wildwood” by Junot Diaz, there are a similar type of theme and main character. Both short stories utilize a theme of freedom and a main character that goes along with the theme. The main character is one that is “held back” and wants to have freedom, but there is an antagonist that is preventing that from happening. However, towards the end of the story, there is a plot twist and change in the mindset of the main character. Both stories end very differently, but with the same sort of idea.
And he’d kill me before he’d let anyone else have me. I just have to get away.”(273) Sarah knows that if she leaves she will be ‘alone’ but it 's better than having all the people that you have ever loved die, because of you. She was showing courage in this situation because she scared to be alone and be facing her dad alone but she, again, is putting the people
She viewed the Indians as terrorists invading her home and this was something she would have never thought she would see with her own eyes. (258) At the
The readers can get a understanding of how Premila was treated proving their culture was not as “great” as the British culture. Rau forces readers to recognize that in their society no matter what the problem is insular people make it worse. Also, the mother and Premila thought Santha didn't know what was going on but she did by saying,“I understood it perfectly and i remember it very clearly. But I put It happily away because it all had happened to a girl named Cynthia, and I never was really particularly interested in her” (Rau,42).
Sarah has an inkling to go north, become a Quaker, and fight for her freedom and the freedom of Handful and other
Sarah then moved herself and two children back home to Berkley, California to live with her parents Zeek and Camille. The life of Sarah Braverman includes more unfortunate events than the common norm, her being a single parent playing a large
With “It belonged neither to water nor moonlight…luminous sheaf…fields of darkness” (line 1-2), Forster brings forth one of the many instances in the novel showing the ambiguous and baffling nature of India which a newcomer English has a hard time grasping. This is again suggested when Mrs. Moore exclaims, “What a terrible river! What a wonderful river!” (line 8-9). With this, Forster also manages to hint that Mrs. Moore’s journey with the Indian ambiguity and confusion which continues to the middle of the novel has just begun, especially to the scenes following the Cave incident which compel her to question her own beliefs.
One Amazing Thing. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. USA: Hyperion, 2009. 209pp. Under the rubric of Commonwealth Literature, there is always a bewildering array of overlapping and intersecting experiences between ‘home’ and ‘abroad’.
Yet, she could not stands watching her people get hurt in front of her. Before going to Jamaica, where she clears her mind about the confusion, she had about the whole culture problem that led to her depression, she was