Examples Of Tolerance In Necttar In A Sieve

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

The social ideology is a large contrast between “Groom Service” and “The Return”. In “Groom Service”, the society is dominated by females because Marie is shy and will not bully Bernard. It illustrates to the reader that women have the dominant position in the family. Therefore, it causes them not to take consideration of the husband’s feeling. In “The Return”, the society is dominated by males. Muthoni waited for Kamau until Kamau’s parents knew that the family cannot go on, so they gave her permission to leave. In fact, if Kamau’s parents do not give away their daughter – in – law, so Kamau can end up being with his wife. However, in “Groom Service”, no matter how hard Bernard tries to stay together with Doris; his desire will never be fulfilled.

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

This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections of Indian girls, to see how they emerge in ideological terms. Their journeys from self-alienation to self-adjustment, their childhood struggles against the hypocrisies and monstrosities of the grown-up world, eventually demolishing the unjust male constructed citadels of power that hinder their progress- are the highlighted issues. The point of comparison between the two novels focused on here is the journey of Rahel in The God of Small Things and Sai in The Inheritance from a lonely childhood to a tragic adulthood passing through a struggle with the complex forces of patriarchal society. Both the novels portray the imaginativeness, inventiveness, independence, rebelliousness, wide-eyed wonder and innocence associated with these young girls.

Rukmani was only twelve when she married, and matured quickly since then. As she matured, she began to understand things to be much more than what they seemed. When she first saw the house she and Nathan were going to live in, all she saw was a mud hut, but later she came to know it had been built by Nathan with love and care. He had not accepted anybody’s help in building the

Rochel who is an Orthodox Jew, and Nasira who is a Syrian- descent Muslim, are both public school teachers at a multi-cultural school located in Brooklyn, New York. Both of the women begin to realize that they have more in common with each other than they think. Rochel and Nasira are going through an arranged marriage processes, in which they are both feeling religious and cultural pressures from their families. Both women are presented with many choices for potential husbands; however, ultimately, they choose whom they want to marry, as in any other marriage. Arranged marriages should never be forced or pressured. On the other hand, one shouldn't criticize arranged marriages as long as the people who are in them are okay with them.

Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection and The Red Lotus of Chastity are two Indian stories that depict the different gender roles in the culture at that time. Sakuntala follows the story of a young girl who marries the King that has declared his love for her. When he leaves her with promises to return, she is cursed that her love will no longer remember her. In Red Lotus, the story centers on Devasmita and her fight to keep her marriage vows and her husband safe. These are two similar stories of love with drastically different women protagonist that bring to light the gender roles expected of men and women.

She also had sandalwood marks on her hips and under her breasts. On seeing this, Rukmani told Kunthi to not tell anybody about Rukmani’s visit to Kenny or she could make it worse for Kunthi, to which Kunthi replied that she could make it bad for Rukmani and her husband as well. This shows that Kunthi never had good intentions towards Rukmani. She had never liked Rukmani before, but she hadn’t taunted her before. Before she had seemed reserved and a bit selfish, but now it becomes clear that she is evil and cold-hearted. I suspect that Kunthi is going to cause some problems for the family, especially between Rukmani and Nathan. She will probably tell the village that Rukmani has been having an affair with Kenny, when in reality the two will simply be friends. She will aslso use Rukmani’s secret to her

”(Crowe, x:xx). Rosie is the type of character who would rather make others happy other than herself. When Rosie’s father, Ben, feels they need a fresh start so they go house hunting. Along the way Rosie mentions to Mr. Steven,

Lakshmi is a young girl that grew up in Nepal. She lost her father at a very young age and she and her mother begin to struggle. Her mother eventually married again, but her family still struggled. Lakshmi’s stepfather was no good because he had no job and all he did was bet at the coffee shop. Because Lakshmi’s family struggled, she was sent away to work as a “maid” and thought it would provide for her family. When Lakshmi realized what she would be doing for work, she hoped and prayed every day that she would soon be back home.

Challenges are everywhere in life, and you can never escape them. They are difficult to overcome, but the human race always find a way through them enhancing their knowledge. Kamala Markandaya illustrates all of life's challenges put onto one's shoulders in the novel “Nectar in a Sieve”. In her story, she tells the reader about Nathan and Rukmani two destitute farmers who live in 1950s rural India, they face many challenges and hardships during their lifetime such as bad weather, industrialization and more. By describing all of these hardships and challenges, Markandaya shows the determination of one and how one shall never give up to overcome the dilemma and obstacle thrown at them.

Rukmani went out for a well day of spending she comes back only to find her husband very bad ill. Nathan knows that he has to provide for his family so he keeps working though he is truly sick and this is when they finally have enough to go back home.Rukmani finds her loving husband fallen in the mud she is helped back to the temple where he passes.After this Rukmani knows that this can't be the end so she promise to take care of Puli if he comes home with her and that is exactly what he did. Rukmani gave everything she had but her drive parasite got her through the day many times and now she has a home and stable.

This essay focuses on the theme of forbidden love, The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy. This novel explores love and how love can’t be ignored when confronted with social boundaries. The novel examines how conventional society seeks to destroy true love as this novel is constantly connected to loss, death and sadness. This essay will explore the theme of forbidden love, by discussing and analysing Ammu and Velutha's love that is forbidden because of the ‘Love Laws’ in relation to the caste system which results in Velutha’s death. It is evident that forbidden love negatively impacts and influences other characters, such as Estha and Rahel, which results in Estha and Rahel’s incestuous encounter.

The novel, Nectar in a Sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, takes readers on a journey of the struggling country of India. As a series of characters are introduced, we meet Rukmani, the narrator and protagonist. Rukmani is portrayed as a positive woman as she and her family endure the challenges of poverty. She embodies gender issues despite the unavoidable superiority of males. Nectar in a Sieve provokes readers to question power shifts and role of women in rural, isolated, or impoverished cultures.

In Rohinton Mistry’s novel, “A Fine Balance”, he has portrayed a cluster of characters efficiently and elegantly. By portraying a cross section of Indian society especially those who called rubbish, the writers draw the real picture of India. There are four champions in the novel Dina Dalal, Ishvar, Om Prakash and Maneck Kohlah in this novel. The other famous characters are beggar master, Rajaram, the hair collector. Thakur Dharmasi, Vasantra Valmik, Ibrahim the rent-collector, Shaker- the beggar, Ashraf chacha, Mumtaz Chachi, Dukhi Mochi, his wife Rupa, Mrs. Gupta Narayan, Radha, Rustom Nussawan, Ruby, Monkey Man, Jeevan, the tailor and others.