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Mistress Of Spices Analysis

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Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices is a juxtaposition of the past and present life of Tilo. The past life of Tilo reveals the fact how she is born in a small village. After giving birth, her mother has cried over her face and the fortune- teller shakes his head sorrowfully at her father, because of another girl child is born. Her birth is described with bitter remembrance: They named me Nayan Tara, her first identity, which means Star of the Eye. But my parent’s faces were heavy with fallen hope at another girl child, and this one coloured me like mind. Wrap her in old cloth, lay her face down on the floor. What does she bring to the family except a dowry debt. Three days it took to the villagers to put out the fire in the marketplace. And my mother lying fevered all the while, and the cows run dry, and I screaming until they fed me milk from a white ass. Perhaps that is why the words came to me so soon. And the sight. Or was it the loneliness, the need rising angry in a dark girl left to wander the village unattended, with no one caring …show more content…

Her parents consider her as burden but she has the power to predict the future and her magical powers and fame begins to spread and bring wealth to her parents. She is unloved by her parents but appreciates for her superfluous income. Nayan Tara becomes very famous because of her supernatural powers, and her fame starts spreading to neighboring towns and beyond. People bring her gifts so lavishly that the villagers have talked about them for many days. She begins to have an affluent life. She cures the daughter of a potentate, foretells the death of a tyrant, and draws patterns on the ground to keep the good winds blowing for merchant sailors. She comes to know that her name has another meaning also, Flower That Grows by the Dust Road. People from every walk of life have praised her supernatural powers. She begins to

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