Family Feud in Anita Desai´s Clear Light of Day

Quaid-e-Azam made it clear to the mission that the Muslim lion's share regions ought to be gathered together to make a sovereign and free Pakistan. He said,

unprivileged with her home. Her family, on the other hand, tries to escape Mango Street

There was a high food shortage in 1946 and this caused many to ration. World War II left a deep wound in India as two and a half million Indian soldiers were sent to aid the allies and 24,000 killed. Many were unemployed as they lost their jobs after the war since there was no need for war production. Gandhi’s party, Indian national congress, created in 1885 seemed it would be the power that ruled after Britain left. This changed, however, as the All Muslim league became popular during World War II. Muslims were a minority compared to the Hindus. The Partition of 1947 created Pakistan, where the Muslims would live, and India, where the Hindus would live.

Many people believe that in the 1940’s most of India’s problems involving independence was to do with divisions within India rather than British imperialism. In this essay I will be looking at both points of view and finally giving my opinion. I will be using three sources also to help me show both sides of the story. I will also be using my further knowledge to add a wider range of knowledge.

Because she is isolated at Cambridge she becomes inverted and doesn’t fit in. Along with leaving her home, family, and friends, she is forced to adapt to her new environment. Before her first child is born, she expresses her fear of raising him in this foreign country and wants to go back to India. Ashima feels extremely lonely and isolated, especially because her husband spends the entire day away and only comes home in the evenings.

In the typical Indian family, gender construction manifests itself especially in the roles of men and women in the household. As Judith Lorber so aptly put, “gender is a process of creating distinguishable social statuses for the assignment of rights and responsibilities” which in turn, creates the social differences that define a “man” and “woman” (Lorber). It is these differences that are used to construct and maintain an established gender order within the family. In the conventional Indian family, the order is such that the roles of the women in the household revolve around the roles of the men. This structure was something that I saw from an early age in my parents’ marriage. Though my parents defied the Indian norm of the arranged marriage, they still represented the quintessential model of an Indian couple in many other ways. My mother left her job to become a stay-at-home mom when I was about six years old. However, even before she left her job, she was implicitly expected by my father to shoulder most of the housework including cooking, cleaning, and caring for my older brother

First, this novel showcases acts of caring for family and friends, during a rough time for all the Indians bringing them closer into one community. The protagonist Sabine displays acts of caring among her friends and family. For instance, near the end of the novel, Sabine helps her mother’s friend, Lalita, despite having a sour relationship with her. Sabine saves Lalita from being arrested by lying to a military officer, thus making Sabine a more confident and brave person. Sabine faces her fear of the military and gains the power she

Finally, Jayanti’s first exposure to the world outside her Aunt’s house and the events that lead after, changes who she really is,

In order for the family to get through this hard time, her stepfather tells her that she is going to the city to work as a maid, though he lied and sold her into prostitution. Lakshmi goes from a home in Nepal to a brothel in India and her new disgusting and violent reality sets in. Although, Lakshmi develops friendships in the brothel and maintains hope that she will escape back to a life of

The ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan has been the subject of speculation and study by political scientists and historians for a number of years. The ethnic conflict seems to have been sparked at the very beginning in 1947, when the British used Muslim and Hindu mercenaries against each other before the area finally split into today’s countries of India and Pakistan (Spiegel et al. 2015, 185). The timeline since then has been full of conflicts, both major and minor. Brutal tactics used by security forces and a high rate of unemployment have added to the issue (BBC News 2016).

A Mutual Cultural Perception Culture shapes one’s perspectives and characteristics in which paves a pathway into society; however, one’s cultural position is connected by one’s decisions regardless of the importance of one’s culture in terms of introducing values and beliefs at an early stage of life. In other words, as individuals within society begin to view others and interpret the world, they may choose to follow a different path into society in which their cultural influence remains static. Some individuals within society believe that one’s culture impacts one’s perspectives and moral values of one’s physiological beliefs, one’s cultural identity; however, some individuals effected by a new environment and society may feel disconnected

The author Diana Divecha expressed her emotions by telling about how unprotected she felt at her own house in her childhood. When parents are violent so the security damage to kids can last a lifetime. During marriage or parenthood, Divecha was very vigilant. Her family psychologist Sheri Glucoft Wong told her that having child creates more conflicts even for couples who were doing well before they became parents. But Diana Divecha knew there could be some better ways to handle the conflict than the encounter she faced in her childhood. She discussed this with her husband and they decided they won’t fight in front of their parents. Further, the author discusses destructive conflict further by taking help from a book ‘Marital conflict & children’.

The consolidated nature of Indian families gives extended family members the power to have great influence over their younger relatives. If this aspect of Indian family life holds true, then it is natural for parents to have a colossal amount of influence over their children. In the Indian culture, parents are a symbol of unquestionable authority and the unmovable force of their household. We can see that Indian children are educated

In 1940 the all-Indian Muslim league declared its desire for a 'Pakistan' meaning 'land of the pure' under the confederation of an all Hindu state called 'Hindustan' or the 'land of the Hindus'. however a 'Pakistan' under the Indian rule seemed impossible, and

To Rani, ‘people dying here, others dying there’ (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268) was something that happened every day, it was no surprise to her. Thus, Rani’s cynical view about the future of India and Pakistan was conceivably drawn from memories of witnessing horrendous fights and strife throughout her whole life (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268).