Analysis Of The Moor's Last Sigh And Shalimar The Clown

The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami explains the journey of Esteban a Moroccan the first non-Indian to explore what would become the American Southwest. I observed how Lalami created Esteban’s character from very little knowledge, because of the little information known about Esteban and his voyage. She made him into a character with only knowing he was a black man from Azemmour and gave him a family, history, and most importantly a voice. In doing this she gave readers a different viewpoint of the expedition. She also gives a deeper look into what really happened in the Indian territory that might have been purposely left out by Cabeza de Vaca. Esteban’s place in history was not given to him and that made Lalami want to give him exactly that and doing this she gave the views of powerless unlike the views of the powerful which we always see.

This Discussion is about how the author views contemporary Arabs’ attitude toward their own history in the play ‘The Jester’. It is written by Muhammad Al-Maghut, a Syrian writer and poet who is known for his satirical work. In this play, he vigorously converses about the social misery and meanness. This play focuses on reaction and behaviour of today’s Arab men towards their historical heroes in a satirical way. The play starts with highlighting the dignity and heroism of past Arab heroes, but in later acts it is depicted that the layman regards their heroism only because it has been magnificently presented to him, unless analysed by a contemporary Arab man. The writer tries to depict the behaviour of today’s Arabs towards achievements to

As before, the story contains such a vivid description of life that the reader’ s sensibilities are shocked to read about Saeed’s parents’ intimate life, very much as we were shocked when the same was done for the parents of ‘you’ in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Why does Hamid do that, I wonder? Perhaps because in the typical Eastern context we cannot imagine such things happening, perhaps he is trying to make us realize that people who are parents are also very human. Indeed he is trying to break us out of our protective little shells. Another classic ingredient is the voice of the narrator, so present in Hamid’s stories and present with such life in Exit West that it, as the narrator of its predecessor, leaves the reader aching to know who this entity is speaking with such clarity, such wisdom and such poignancy. Yet another ingredient which made its debut, if I am not wrong, in Discontent and its Civilizations, was Mohsin Hamid’s regard towards other writers, some alive, some gone to their eternal rest, whom he called his friends. In Exit West, he pays tribute to a number of old friends and quite sweetly, his own works. And so we meet Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway and find a light reference to Moth Smoke and Rising Asia albeit in the characterisation of the ‘brave man, the old man’ which reminds one of ‘the pretty girls’. Writers love their babies, their works. It

Farewell to Manzanar is a collection of all of Jeanne Wakatsuki’s memories at Manzanar, an internment camp designed for Japanese immigrants. During World War II, the Japanese-Americans were relocated in Manzanar; the reason behind the relocation was due to them being accused of being threats to national security. I believe that the following paragraph is able to capture the struggle the author and the other residents of Manzanar faced in the journey home.

Oppression, defined as, “unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power” (merriam-webster.com) and prejudice, defined as, “injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights” (merriam-webster.com), both actions that have changed people. Some people are changed for the worse and some are changed for the better, but some choose to share their story. Two people named Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Elie Wiesel did this, they shared their story with the whole world. They both did this by writing autobiographical memoirs, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote Farewell to Manzanar alongside her husband and Elie Wiesel wrote Night, both sharing their experiences during well known events that have happened in the world today. Even though the stories have taken place at different places and different times, the people involved in these event experienced the same things. This does not mean that they were affected in the same way, they were affected differently in their own ways.

Throughout Farewell to Manzanar, the reader is exposed to the cruelties of human nature that stem from prejudice. The novel provides a story from the perspective

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities.

In this essay I am going to compare the main characteristics of the two most important characters of this book. They were both born in Afghanistan but each of them was raised by totally different families. In spite of not having the same social background after several years they meet one another and live together, as wives of their strict husband Rasheed who refuses modern rights for women.

He administers his criticism towards “terrorists,” the “European school,” the “Islamic school,” the “Asian school,” and the “political movement called multiculturalism”(Dinesh,

The following night, Dinarzad said to her Scheherazade, “Dear sister, if you aren’t very sleepy, please tell us one of your fascinating tales?” The King added, “Let it be the continuation of the fisherman and the colored fish.” Scheherazade replied, “With the finest pleasure, O King.”:

In the novel “The Moor’s Account” by Laila Lalami, the author stresses how the main character Mustafa is effected by his family and how that relates to the future he has in the New World. This is most identified by how he feels about his father, the giving up of his name, and his struggle to fight for a new life. Unlike other slaves in the New World, Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori chose his fate for the possibility of a better life. He had the opportunity to try to work for himself and his family while still in Morocco. In fact, his father had even wanted him to do that. But Mustafa knew that he was confident in his decision to sell himself into slavery so that his family can be better off from there. In the story, the reader sees how Mustafa struggles as he journeys from Morocco and across the New World in search of the possibility for a new life. Overall, the reader sees how Mustafa struggles with not following his father’s guidance, his loss of humanity from his name being taken away, the quest to avoid changing his entire humanity in his new life, and how everything changing has affected him and changed him as a person.

The purpose of this essay is to analyse S. Rushdie's Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies from feminist perspective. To fully understand the views that Rushdie exhibited, with respect to feminist approach , it's important to notice the contrast between men's expectations about women in Islamic culture and the unforeseen behaviour of Miss Rehana, claiming her freedom.

An event that has relation to war today is the tension in the northern region of India, Punjab, where the Sikh holy book was ripped up and thrown. Many Sikhs gathered in a peaceful protest, trying to bring to justice the people who were responsible, but the police ended up shooting and killing two peaceful protestors. Simran Jeet Singh, is one of the authors, who writes on this topic. He takes up this topic, because it represents part of the unjust that happened to Sikhs in 1984 where they were killed and murdered in the thousands by the Indian government. Singh says, “I was born in the United States in the summer of 1984, during the height of the anti- Sikh violence in Punjab” (Singh 1). He goes on to say how he feels the pain of his Sikh brothers and sisters who were killed in the year 1984, for their religious beliefs. Background about Singh shows us the importance of mediated narratives, as they show that Singh is trying to raise awareness about the issues going on in Punjab in an attempt to try to avoid the destruction that happened in 1984. Another one of these authors is Nirmala Ganapathy, who is part of The Straits Times. She takes up the same interest as Singh, as she works to raise awareness on the issues affecting her homeland of India. She writes about why Sikhs have been blocking major roads in India and the influence this has. Her curiosity is what has

Literature means which reflects the life. Likewise Adiga has wrote the novels which reflect the day-to-day life of Mumbai. To conclude, Adiga has presented both the novels “The White Tiger” and “Last Man In Tower” with the common themes of corruption, identity crisis, religious belif during Modernization and globalization in India. The main theme presents, the fact of money changes a person to be a murderer though they are a servant or any close relation to anybody. Both the novel has the theme of identity crisis.

The incident in the stadium also reveals to Parvana and Shauzia the complete horror of living under such a regime and haunts Parvana for the next few days. As a Muslim, the writer believes that the actions of the Taliban like the one’s depicted in this novel disgrace Muslims in the present times. Islam is a peaceful religion that promotes morality and generosity among all people, not the twisted version portrayed by the Taliban.