Character Analysis Of Saving Sourdi

She refuses to accept the fact that Sourdi is growing up and and she is not. Even after Sourdi got married and left her, Nea still tried her best to bring her back. She tried to create situations where she would have an excuse to bring Sourdi back, not caring if someone got hurt during it. She couldn’t deal with the fact that her  sister had grown up and she was still a little child. At the end Nea says, “I wished I was a Naga. I would have swallowed the whole world in one gulp. But I have no magic powers. None whatsoever,” (143). This showed how helpless Nea felt in her whole situation. She couldn’t do anything to stop her sister from drifting apart from her. At the end she finally realizes that her sister has moved on with her new life and she didn’t take Nea with her. She realizes that it’s time for her to let go of the past and grow

Through these characters, the author shows that although life has its many obstacles, one being the family secret, good things shall happen to those who wait. Sudha, who had surrendered her happiness for the sake of other’s, ended up finding her true self and renewed her relationship with Anju. Sudha and Anju refer to each other as the sister of my heart because they both know that they can turn to each other in times of despair. Even though Sudha gained knowledge of the family secret and it had momentarily impacted her relationships, everything worked out in the end as Sudha and Anju’s perpetual bond brought them back together and helped them improve as

Sourdi is the prettier and more desirable sister. Chai highlights the incongruity of the sisters’ looks by solely depicting Sourdi’s beauty. By depicting Sourdi as a China Doll so early in the story when the two men are harassing her in the family’s restaurant, Chai sets us up to believe that she needs defending and isn’t strong enough to do it herself. Nea thoroughly believes that is her role in life. As the plot progresses, however, it is easy to see that Sourdi is in fact quite strong and unbreakable.

Oftentimes when reading fictional texts with similar themes, readers will find themselves encountering similar characters. In the realm of modern literature, elderly Asian women are often portrayed with many similarities; they are seen as protective, caring people who possess great wisdom. Ayako Nakane, also known as Obasan, the title character of Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, and the character Poh-Poh in Wayson Choy’s novel The Jade Peony, are very similar in this regard. Both Obasan and Poh-Poh drive forwards their respective narratives with their strong personalities. They have each suffered through troublesome pasts and as a result have become very wise. Obasan and Poh-Poh share many similarities but they also have their differences. Both women

During the story, Chai paints a picture of two extremely close sisters who have been put to the test. The pair has been relocated, put to work, and expected to mature quickly in their harsh new world. Nea is the narrator of the story, and she shares: ”We used to say that we’d run away, Sourdi and me.” (72) The sisters would whisper their secrets back and forth at night, and lock themselves in the bathroom together and hide away together. As children the girls were inseparable but soon the age difference comes between them. Sourdi finds comforts in her first romance with a dishwasher, Duke, and slowly but surely Nea is left by the wayside. This distance is increased when Mr. Chhay is introduced and Nea quickly realizes that her sister is being severed from her life: “It was the beginning of the end. I should have fought harder then. I should have stabbed this man, too.” (75)

Her unforeseen actions are due to the rest care tradition, which has progressively worsened her mental state and caused her to overlook her role as a caring wife in desperation to escape the imprisonment of the tradition. As witnessed from the two short stories, conflicts arise amidst families due to the events of old traditions, establishing a divide between family members that is difficult to overcome once constructed.

On the other hand, it could be articulated that the female characters in both the novels have proved their mental instabilities, individualisms and rebelliousness have disturbed the lives of others. Moreover, it could be analyzed in the novels that both the author in their social context has explained the dark secrets of the life of individuals.

An analogy has been drawn about how she was in the past and how is she now. She was a carefree person, demanding love in her life, wanting to take care of her children and become a house wife and now she works as a schoolteacher, has become a responsible person concerned about her husband and child, struggling for her son’s life, bearing tantrums of her sister-in-law and living in a small house in a small city. On the other hand, Komal, sister-in-law of Anjali is a character shown who seems to be frustrated from her life from the time she has lost her husband. The book has depicted another face of an Indian woman, who lives her entire life following the customs that the society has decided for a widow. Anjali tried to make her first marriage successful by taking care of small things like making her husband, his favorite cardamom chai and best of meals while Prakash’s second wife Indu was never concerned about any of his likings and gave priority to her own personal

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Providing the two heroines with strong and engaging personalities, the novel portrays the life of two young Chinese girls, who because of historical events and family secrets, have to grow up faster than what they had planned. The book delivers emotional themes that are powerful yet familiar, and is written in a compelling manner.

Rinaldi is a kind of boss with wide perspective and deep thought in seeing things. He is able and eager to share his knowledge with the team while at the same time handling the situation properly. Yet, he is still welcome to feedback and ideas. He seems calm at first, but actually he is quite ‘cheezy’ as he sometimes spills out not-so-funny jokes during free time with the team. It shows that he is an easy going, humble, down to earth and yet, inspirational.

The two heroines share a harsh background; they both have had a rough childhood and are searching for a way out of their misery. Their lives are centered around the strategies that contribute to their rise. When writing this essay I was mainly interested in exploring how even the characters with smaller roles could affect the outcome, could shape the path the heroines followed towards their rise, but also wanted to analyze all the aspects through characters contributed to the liberation of the heroines.

Obasan by Joy Kogawa is narrated by the fictional character Naomi. Naomi’s narration describes the frustration she went through during her childhood. Reading through the novel, it is evident that the prime focus of the story revolves around Naomi, a schoolteacher with an upsetting past. However, it is strange that Joy Kogawa chose ‘Obasan’ as the title of the novel rather than “Naomi” the protagonist of the story. Analyzing the character Obasan, it is evident that Obasan (Naomi’s aunt), did not speak much English. Furthermore, Obasan is portrayed as a silent yet a caring individual. Within the novel, Naomi has two aunts. Even though Obasan means “aunt” in Japanese, it is strange that, Naomi only uses the term Obasan to describe one of her aunts.

While reading “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri, there are two main characters named Shukumar and Shoba in the story who seemed to once have great affection towards one another. Indeed, the honeymoon phase in their marriage dwindled after a tragedy of losing their child. As the storyline progresses, the story provides clues of details in the setting of the short story to give the reader insight into each main character. Nevertheless, the main character that is noticeably clarified through the setting of “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri is Shukumar and changes in the setting of the story that included a blackout and candlelight in the house illuminate Shukumar as a character and provide insight into his drive and emotion.

The novel, A passage to India written by E. M. Foster is a modernist novel ,which portrays a colonial India under British rule, before its liberation. It is set in India, in the 20th century . In the novel, Foster structures his book into 3 sections: Mosque, Cave, and Temple to portray the complex relationship of the characters as they struggle to getting together during the turbulent time in India.