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This passage from “Fasting, Feasting” by Anita Desai contrasts American and Indian cultures. Desai does this by showing the effects of culture shock on Arun, an Indian foreign exchange student living in America. Indian culture raises young boys to learn and think; whereas America, Arun’s new home, emphasizes action over thought. Arun has a hard time adjusting to his new environment, and his rigidity affects his quality of life. Desai makes use of literary devices to reveal a lonesome boy in unfamiliar

Quest for Liberty: A Recurring Theme in the Novels Quest for liberty is the most prominent theme in the novels of Anita Desai. Due to its importance in her works, it is bound to find recurrence. The quest for liberty prevails as the dominant theme and all the major characters seem to be struggling for something with which they cannot come in terms with. The society in which they live and cannot go away from it leaves a deep question mark in their minds. They are in quest for liberty

Loss is Strong but Memories are Powerful. In the novel The Book of Negroes written by Lawrence Hill loneliness and love plays an important role in the character development of Aminata Diallo who is the main character of this novel. This novel emphasizes the loss of the people Aminata loves most and how she works through the losses of her loved ones with the memories of these people to help her cope with the losses. Loss is a powerful thing that everyone faces at least once in their lifetime.

The Inheritance of Tools by Scott Russell Sanders is an essay written from the perspective of Sanders in relation to his life struggles and the significance of the tools and trade that he has inherited from his dead father. In this essay it is clear that Sanders is mourning the loss of his father. This creates a mood that is very real and a tone in the essay of sadness but it never seems depressing. Its sad but in a good way of remembering someone for their good qualities. The tone tells us that

Loss is inevitable, there is a time in everyone's life that this pain will be felt, yet dealing with it shows the true character of the person. The book of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters displays the true meaning of that statement. The characters throughout explain the many struggles faced in their life, all the way until their death. In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the main character is doomed from the very beginning. He demonstrates the life of an immigrant, poor, nasty, brutish. He

(AGG) The main point of the book, Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples, is to show the effect that loss can have on an average person, like you and me. (BS-1) When Nusrat had lost her beloved sister, she felt lost, and like she did not belong. (BS-2) Since her sister tragically died, helping children in need has helped Nusrat cope as she has been on a constraint search for the “why” that she felt she so needed to find. (BS-3) Her husband’s death has showed Nusrat her real self and that

In the passage from Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai, Arun, a foreign exchange student from India, much to his disdain, joins the mother and daughter of his host family, Melanie and Mrs. Patton, on a day to the beach. The complicated and warped experience that Arun faces on the day trip is characterized by the literary tools used by Anita Desai, such as diction, syntax, and rich descriptions. From the opening paragraph of the passage, Arun’s uneager disposition is shown, when he is displayed trying

disgusting Bombay life, she doesn’t make any attempt to liberate herself from the shell of psychic paralysis and resigns herself passively to the inanimate and insipid life of Bombay which in reality is a limbo of death in life. In Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai uses light touch, simple language, uncomplicated structure, but at the same time addresses some very big issues and makes a point. In this novel Uma and Arun are children of Mamapapa, the apparently indivisible common identity that parents present

INTRODUCTION Anita Desai, a noteworthy woman novelist, is a modern Indo-English writer, widely acclaimed not only in India but also in the world of fiction writing. She emerged after independence, deliberating on the highly debatable contemporary issues. Anita Desai is a keen observer of the society and the position of the women in the contemporary society draws her special attention. The novels of Anita Desai are noted for the profound probing into the inner life and feelings of the women, bounded

Anita Desai is more interested in the interior landscape of the mind than in political and social realities. Writing, for her "is an effort to discover, and then to underline, and finally to convey the true significance of things". Her novels according to her,” deal with the terror of facing, single - handed, the ferocious assaults of existence." Anita Desai's protagonists are mostly women who, though they have reached different stages in life from school-girl to grandmother are all fragile introvert