Human Relationships In Githa Hariharan

Relationships play an important role in one's life. They are formed on the basis of love and understanding. Relationship helps various people in every aspect of life and assists them in being a better person. Such a relationship was found in the novel

In Deborah Tannen’s, You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation Tannen describes the typical relationship between a mother and daughter. She discusses the importance of their relationship with each other and how important this relationship is. Tannen is a linguist; she studies how people talk to others. This reading provides multiple examples of mother and daughter conversations and how these conversations effect the relationship between the mother and her daughter.

The article, the book, and I, talk about how daughters feel their mothers don’t know them and that they don’t know their mothers. They talk about how a daughter listens to her mother, but there is a certain point in a young woman 's mind where they decide they want to see and explore new ideas. In conclusion, they all talk about the point in a daughter 's life where she and her mother don’t get along very well and the daughter tries to take charge of her life.

“i am a linguist” says Tannen and briefly explains what that means and how it better helps her explore the topic. She lets it be known that in fact she is someone's daughter but does not have one of her own. But because she is well past her adolescent years makes her just as credible if she were to have one. At first it may appear that this piece was written for women and girls who presumably have wondered why their relationship with their mothers or daughters were so complex. On the contrary it grabs the attention of both genders. All though not directly targeted to men and boys it could give them a better insight to the women relationship in their lives. Tannen says “... there is a special intensity to the mother-daughter relationship because talk,particularly talk about personal topics -- plays a larger more complex role in girls’ and women's social lives than in boys and men.” this does not dismiss the male , and Tannen does an acceptable job at engaging both

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.

All mother daughter relationships can be quite challenging at times. Especially when the daughter is forced to do the unwanted. In Amy Chua’s memoir The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, and Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club, exemplify the obstacles that come along with the roles of a mother daughter relationship. Although these excerpts address the same situation their tones are opposing. Chua’s tone of memories with her daughter show annoyance but still caring, while Tan’s tone examples menacing and hostile.

The most complex relationship a female will have is the one with her own mother. Because of this natural and special connection that exists between a mother and her

Mothers tend to mold their daughters according to their worldview. Mother-daughter relationships are inevitably related with emotion as well as psychic interchanges between each other. The way a mother treats her daughter definitely has a role with her daughter’s psychology and identity development. Sometimes when little girls grow into young adults, the loving mother-daughter relationship turns into a brutal one.

Literature can be written in three different points of view. First person, the character narrates the story of events from his or her own perspective. Third person, the narrator tells the point of view of one or more characters, but is not present in the story. The final main point of view is second person, in which the narrator instructs someone on how they should do something. The short story “Girl” written by, Jamaica Kincaid is presented in second person. The mother which is also the narrator, makes an impact on how the reader perceives the story.

In a relationship, it is common for couples to share the blame for issues that arise. However, through the stories in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri it becomes clear that there is often one one individual who insights these problems. In “A Temporary Matter”, the main character, Shukumar, is mourning the his child who was stillborn and allowing his insecurities to distance him from his wife, Shoba. The story “Interpreter of Maladies” describe the crisis of a middle aged man, Mr. Kapsi, whose unsupportive marriage causes him to crave the attention of other. In “Sexy”, Miranda finally feels wanted by the man she is seeing, Dev, after years of unsatisfying relationships and continues to stay with him despite him being married to

Strong Female Roles in Family Literature In Sent for You Yesterday by John Wideman and A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham we see two groups of three that have a family bond that may seem unusual to the outsider. In literature, you will see some families that seem abnormal, but how many of these abnormal families can you actually relate with? In Sent for You Yesterday and A Home at the End of the World we see two different ideas of family that are more relatable than the nuclear family ideal. Although these families seem to be made up of a trio of friends, their bonds are stronger than these ideals.

We live in a society where the similarities between female and males are seen at birth. It begins innocently with the toddlers; girls get pink while boys get blue. The gap between boys and girls develops with time and becomes increasingly apparent. There are still gender stereotypes today, but it is not as bad as it was in the past. Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” perfectly portrays gender stereotypes. It represents gender concepts as cultural constructs in the period it was written. These conceptions are comparable to current stereotypes about gender. The book gives us a list of commands from a mother to a daughter. Men in the society are dominant to the women, and the set of rules is a product of patriarchy whereby the mother and daughter appear as subordinates to the men in their lives. The article makes one aware of the prevailing masculine hierarchy that exists in a family, and how it creates firm gender roles for females in the society.

In the pieces “The Eye” by Alice Munro and “Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid, both writings go into depth explaining the relationships between mother and daughter on how much it impacts the roles of women in society. In Alice Munro’s story, the mother and daughter's relationship starts to change once she starts to gain siblings in her life. Once this occurs, the mother tells her how she's supposed to feel. Unfortunately, she does not feel the same way that leads her admiring someone else who makes her own choices in life. In Jamaica Kincaid's piece, it shows us on how to follow these specific rules, to be able to live life as a woman that is being told by the mother to her daughter. Both of these pieces show how much these mother and daughter relationships affect their child's on what their women role will be in the future.

In Roy and Watson’s representations of marital relationships between the elderly, the audience is provided with an insight into the roles of male and female in the family and how it effects women. In TGOST, Roy illustrates the physical and cruel dominance that males had over women in 1960s India. More specifically, the abusive relationship between Pappachi and Mammachi that began when Mammachi’s new pickling business took off. Pappachi was retired and “He slouched around the compound in his immaculately tailored suits, weaving sullen circles around mounds of red chillies and freshly powdered yellow turmeric, watching Mammachi supervise the buying, the weighing, the salting and

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the accomplished diasporic writers. Her writing focuses mainly on women’s suppression, struggle to overcome the problems and attempt to attain identification. Bharati Mukherjee also depicts the cultural conflicts between the East and the West. When a person enters into a new culture from the old one, the conflict arises between the two cultures in the alien land. This paper explores how the female character, Jasmine is portrayed as protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee portrays Indian woman as protagonist in all her novels and the character takes brave decision to emigrate which is the first major step of heroism. The character is portrayed with the capable of facing adventures and creates own happiness and identity, unyielding by conventionality. In Jasmine (1989),