Analysis Of Nectar In A Sieve By Kamala Markandaya

‘Marrying Ameera’ is a novel written by Rosanne Hawke and it features a teenage girl called Ameera who is facing difficulties because of her father Hassan and his Pakistani cultural beliefs. Her father being greatly influenced by the Pakistani culture and beliefs wants his daughter to follow it too without any disagreeance. This makes him the creator of Ameera’s difficulties. Whilst Ameera lives in the Australian culture, she is making Hassan worried and Hassan is making decisions for Ameera, based on his beliefs and culture. Culture is also to blame for creating Ameera’s difficulties because honour is accomplished by the following culture.

In the beginning of the story, the mother tries to control her young nine year old daughter’s life, trying to mold her

a struggle between love and family tradition and ways. In the two stories a young girl

Rukmani is told that she will have a grand wedding and is going to be married to a rich man, but instead she is “married to a tenant farmer, who was poor in everything but love and care for me”. (Markandaya 8). Rukmani went from a very nice house with her parents to a poor farmer’s house to spend the rest of her life. In the prime of her life, she is having trouble becoming fertile. Rukmani visits a white doctor named Kenny and asks for treatment. After a couple years, Rukmani has six children, one girl and five boys. Rukmani is overjoyed with her fortune. The calm in the storm soon passed, and Rukmani started to face adversity. One of her sons are killed, another dies of starvation, and three go off to work. Rukmani’s only daughter, Ira, turns to prostitution to save her starving brother, but does not succeed, and the landlord of their farm wants to collect rent. Rukmani’s life could hardly get worse. Soon, monsoons come and replenish the land, and their crops are plentiful. Rukmani could have chosen to give up, but instead she fought hard to provide for her

The only person that thought about the family was Lena. Ruth, on the other hand, was not a member of the blood family but always wanted the best for everyone. Ruth’s dream rhymed with that of Lema. Her wish was to have a happy family and to achieve that she wished to have a better place to live. Unfortunately, her dream was deferred due to lack of money that

They just always seemed to be pulling her down when she started thriving. It wasn’t her family in general that pulls her down, but her parents. They weren’t very good parents to her. As they get older, the kids just want out. They want out of Welch. They want away from their parents. Lori was wanting to leave but Jeannette wasn’t quite sure about leaving until there was an argument with her mom. Dad had beaten Jeannette for, in other words, saying mom didn’t act like a mother and that pushed her to decide she would never be beaten again, and, “like Lori, I was going to get out of Welch” (221). Jeannette couldn't take it anymore. Lori and Jeannette met two filmmakers from New York City. They talked about New York like it was a dream land. Lori and Jeannette loved the idea of New York. So they made a plan, “Lori would leave by herself for New York in June… and I’d (Jeannette) follow her as soon as I could” (223). They wanted to go and so they did. First Lori went, and then after a while Jeannette went too. They found the city full of opportunities. On Jeannette’s second day in New York she “landed a job at a hamburger joint on Fourteenth Street” (247). The city was practically opening its arms to her. Soon Brian came to New York as well. Brian got to New York and just like Jeannette, “the day after he got to New York, he found a job” (249). He got a job at an ice cream parlor in Brooklyn. Jeannette, Lori, and Brian were

Comparing Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” Daughter and mother relationship is an endless topic for many writers. They meant to share the bond of love and care for each other. Nevertheless, in the real world their relationship is not as successful as it ought to be. The stories “Girl” and “I Stand Here Ironing” are examples of this conflict. The author of the short story “Girl” Jamaica Kincaid use her life story to reflect in the story. In her short story “Girl”, Kincaid presents the experience of being young and female in a poor country. The story is structured as a single sentence of advice that a mother gives to her daughter. The mother expresses her resents and worries about her daughter becoming a woman. The author of “I Stand Here Ironing” is Tillie Olsen, similarly her story portrays powerfully the economic domestic burdens a poor woman faced, as well as the responsibility and powerlessness she feels over her child’s life. Moreover, the woman is grieving about her daughter's life and about the circumstances that shaped her own mothering. Both stories have many features in common. Not only do they explore the troubles that could exist in the relationship between mother and daughter, but also they raise questions about motherhood, especially when a mother lives on a shoestring, the stories explore the difficulties that a young mother has to endure while raising her child in poverty. Although the two stories refer to different place and

Sold the novel is about a young 13 year old Nepali girl named Lakshmi who gets sold as a sex slave. Lakshimis

Among the Anishinaabeg on the road where I live, it is told how a woman loved a man other than her husband and went off into the bush and bore his child. Her name was Aanakwad, which means cloud, and like a cloud she was changeable. She was moody and sullen one moment, her lower lip jutting and her eyes flashing, filled with storms. The next, she would shake her hair over her face and blow it straight out in front of her to make her children scream with laughter. For she also had two children by her husband, one a yearning boy of five years and the other a capable daughter of nine.

In this book there was multiple examples of technology like how we have computers they had newspappers that told all there news they did not have phones or tv’s. The culture or the town were she grow up in she lived in a village. She was fourteen and married Harriey she had a arranged marrige, and her family had to pay mooney for her to get married to Harriey. Then a few weeks later Harriey got really really sick and within a few days he passed away and she had to wear a sari that was white to show that she was a widow. Then she had to live with her Sass and Sassor and live with there rules and expectations. She worked for them around the house for a little wile then she got a job because a lady went to her house and she said

“The Revolt of ‘Mother,’” by Mary Wilkins Freeman, originally published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1890 (Gale 1997) it gives readers a view into the life of a woman who is struggling with how to be correct and proper yet, remain true to herself. While some may see Sarah’s actions as signs of weakness they are actually showing her strength. She is a woman who, in spite of the restrictions placed on her because of her gender shows the power of a woman by, knowing when to pick her battles, showing love for her family by serving them, and following her heart to make the hard decisions regardless of the opposition.

In this story, the characters’ family is not the idealized family. It is not ideal for one to be divorced by her husband so that he can run away to his lover (who so happens to be a man). The characters in this scene (during the song “Making a Home”) are as follows: Whizzer (Marvin’s lover, also whom he divorced Trina for), Trina (Marvin’s ex-wife), Mendel (Trina’s husband and Marvin’s former psychiatrist), Jason (Marvin and Trina’s son). Jason has two pairs of parents (Marvin/Whizzer & Mendel/Trina), and his biological parents (Marvin & Trina) are seen always in the middle of a dispute. The resulting scenario shows conflict and unresolved tension throughout the show. The image attempting to get across in this song is the image of a perfect family. However, we as an audience know that not

     Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife is the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter that is much more than it seems. This touchingly beautiful narrative not only tells a story, but deals with many of the issues that we have discussed in Women Writers this semester. Tan addresses the issues of the inequality given women in other cultures, different cultures' expectations of women, abortion, friendship, generation gaps between mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationships, and the strength of women in the face of adversity. Tan even sets the feminist mood with the title of the book, which refers to a woman in Chinese Mythology who cared for a selfish man who became a

The books I’ve chosen to review are set on two different continents. This makes the comparison of the lives of women across the world more efficient and broader. What makes the comparison more practical, realistic and interesting is the fact that the characters in the two books 'The Woman Warrior ' and 'Wild ', lived in the same century. The authors specifically bring out the duties and the expectation that mothers were held to in the upbringing of their daughters as at that time and place. The authors, however, present the picture of motherhood in a fairly narrow view. They ignore the role of mothers in the upbringing of their sons and instead dwell on their duties and responsibilities in the bringing up of their daughters (Kingston & Gordon 2005). Therefore, I chose to compare how the theme of motherhood has been portrayed in the two ethnically diverse texts.

The main character of this short story is undebatable, the conservative mother, Sharon. She is very strict, stubborn and