Book Review : ' A Moment Comes '

Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first female Prime Minister who had served from 1979 to 1990. The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep, depicts Thatcher’s late-life struggle with dementia, as she remembers her early life and her political career. From the movie we can tell that she was a very strong and powerful woman who was devoted to her career. In her late eighties she feels regret since she had mainly focused on her political career and did not really care about her family. She had made several decisions that effected Britain’s image worldwide. For example she successfully protected the Falkland Islands against Argentina in 1982. Even though the movie demonstrates many historical events, parts of the movie were historically inaccurate.

The civil war even leads to Tariq and his parents moving to Pakistan. Tariq’s father had a weak heart that could not bear the constant warfare of these warlords. For his safety and the safety of their family , they decided to move out.

When Margaret first encounters the airmen she became a bit suspicious so moved closer. It was then she saw the reality of war.

This book, I was here by Gayle Forman, is a life story about a girl, Meg, who committed suicide and her friends and family. She ended up killing herself to end her own pain where she had it since tenth grade. This decision gave her a freedom, but caused a huge disaster towards her people. The climax of this book is when Cody finally found a mysterious guy named Bradford Smith, who had pushed her to kill herself. As the story flows to the end, police caught Bradford by being one of the reasons that caused the Meg's death. The 'Final Solution boards', where Meg met Bredford, had shut down, and finally, they now could give Meg a grave that once they couldn't because they were Catholic, who can't accept this as an innocence. 'Megan Luisa Garcia

Hamid shows Changes perception of individuality. People like Changes suffered a lot in America and got interest to know native identity. Native culture and identity is awesome for every individual. Changes worries that even after all the sacrifices and services of Pakistanis has never treated Pakistan as ally or friend. There is probability that Americans might have encouraged Indians to envy with Pakistanis. Hamid painfully conveys that Americans never treat non- European Counties as their friends and they treat like tissue papers.

The colonies was a dreadful, terrifying place, where life was made impossible for them. Going back to the rolls, everyone was given one, for example, Handmaids, they were used for offspring. A handmaid’s job is not the worst but its not the best, if a handmaid doesn’t get pregnant she gets sent to the colonies. The handmaids are “saved by childbearing”(Atwood). Many handmaids either caused harm to themselves, became escorts, or just found a, not so safe, solution to it and by “not so safe” I mean, trying to have children with another man to see if they had a chance. That caused them to break because they had to do things they wish they wouldn’t have done, it broke their character. In the novel the daughters had a very bad role, they were dressed in white to marry a man so they too can have children. Their childhood and innocence was just taken away from them without hesitation. That too can cause corruption in any child, and corruption in one can lead to corruption in all. Now imagine the moms, the pain and worry they felt. The narrator has a daughter that was taken away from her, the narrator knows there is no possible way she can see her, care for her, know how shes doing, so she just imagines her as

Many people influenced and events my reading and writing development throughout my childhood from my mother, my elementary librarian, and Sesame Street, to getting my first pair of glasses. We all have defining moments in our lives where we can look back and say, “That moment changed my life.” This is the story of the defining moment that changed the way I read and write, and I learned it from a whale!

In this story, Margaret is angry with the fact that Viola Cullinan calls her by ‘Mary’ just for her convenience because Margaret is too long.

-What is the purpose of her character? So that women of the forties could empathize with her situation more

The story is based on a couple, Krish and Ananya, who belongs form two different states of India, Punjab and Tamil Nadu respectively who are in love and wants to get married. The adventure of the story begins at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) where Krish loves and loses the professor’s daughter.

Train to Pakistan is a novel written by Khushwant Singh which majorly deals with the theme of Partition. Khushwant Singh, who was a man who believed in the goodness of humanity, was alarmed to see the event of Partition and its consequences and effects. Thus, he poured down his feelings by writing this remarkable work –Train to Pakistan.

Partition is the unspoken and repressed historical memory of those that lived in the time of British India. Partition persists as one of the utmost important historical events to ever take place in India, plaguing the collective memories of families in Pakistan and India. Partition occurred in 1947 when the British ended their colonization of India and created two independent dominions, India and Pakistan. The result of this division left 10 to 12 million people displaced, large-scale violence, and an estimated two million dead. India and Pakistan were created because of the Radcliffe Line. The Radcliffe Line was a border drawn by Sir Cyril Radcliffe of Great Britain that separated India into two dominions based on religious majority, natural boundaries, communications, watercourses, irrigation systems, and other undefined factors. Historians generally describe the horrendous acts done throughout Partition as in the interest of political indifferences and neglect the various factors that attributed to the chaos throughout Partition. The Radcliffe line is one of the many elements that contributed to the terror and dismay during Partition: untouchability, caste system, religious indifferences, gender, Hindu nationalism and honor are other underlying factors illuminated in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side Of Silence and in the film Earth. The Other Side of Silence and Earth provide a unique perspective on Partition in the way that both of these works enable the reader and

Its British patrons, who ended up exerting more influence on Aligarh than its founder had intended, hoped that the new college would create a class of educated Muslims who would be more loyal to the British and less inclined to agitation than their educated Hindu counterparts. By 1875, when Aligarh was founded, many British officials were becoming disillusioned with the English educated, Hindu "babu" class. Their shrewd adoption of British po-litical techniques for the mobilization of public opinion, their creation of a powerful and all-too-vocal native press, their campaigns for more civil service places, made them thorns in the side of a government that had hoped that education would turn them into docile and appropriately grateful subjects. Members of the Muslim community, if they could only be persuaded to support the British wholeheartedly, promised to be stauncher allies because-this line of reasoning ran-they needed the protection of the British if they were not to be overwhelmed by the Hindus. It seemed unlikely that English education would tempt them to agitate for representative government of the British type, because in almost every electoral contest, Muslims stood to be outvoted. There is no need to impute sinister motives of divide et impera to the British to comprehend why they sought the favor of leading Muslims and made a show of supporting Aligarh during its insecure early days. The consequence was that Aligarh, unlike most Indian-managed colleges, could count on indulgent government inspectors, regular and sustained govern-ment grants, and still more tellingly, on the support of successive British officials who journeyed to its dusty campus, in the spirit of a pilgrimage, to deliver solemn orations there extolling Anglo-Muslim solidarity. It is worth noting that Aligarh was one of the few appropriate forums for such speeches. They could not conceivably have been delivered

There was incredible suffering that the Partion of India caused in areas of Birtish India through exchanges of population …Dealing in various ways with the human tragedy endured by people on both sides of this newly created border. One of the best, and perhaps most famous, partition story clearly reveals this sense of bewilderment,“Toba Tek Singh” was written in Urdu, Pakistan’s national language, by Sadat Hasan Manto, a Kashmiri who left his home in 1948 and moved to Karachi, Pakistan’s capital. The story recounts the effects of partition on a very particular portion of the population.

Making a decision is not always as simple as it may seem. Needs and preferences must be ascertained, someone will ultimately be compelled to make a choice, and more often than not, others will be forced to make sacrifices and may become indignant that their preferences were not honored. The decision to partition India was not a simple decision, but, in fact, the very opposite of that; India was in a state of such mayhem that it seemed as if it would be impossible to come up with the perfect solution. Eventually, the British government was forced to partition India and virtually everyone was forced to make dire sacrifices. As India was divided into the nation of Pakistan and the Republic of India, it is not an understatement to suggest that millions of lives were overturned. However, when accurately trying to understand the Indian Partition and its effect, historical accounts often focus solely on prominent figures and overlook the experience and perspectives of the millions at the ground level. Not only would studying the viewpoints and experiences of ordinary people bring forth a very different sense of history, but it is important to wholly understand the Partition as well. By considering this aspect of history, this evaluation will demonstrate that, by ignoring non-elites’ interpretations and experiences, historians omitted key elements of the story. [Can you add a roadmap that looks ahead to some of the specific themes you’ll discuss?]