Indian English Novel

Crazy story, but I was born one month early. Yah, you heard that right. One month. That’s one thing people might not know about me, but there are also some other things that are factors in my life story:

Sherman Alexie is a Native American man who is well known for his novels and short stories based on his experiences as a member of many different Native American tribes. In his short story “Indian Education”, Alexie details the struggles with bullying and discrimination one Native American boy went through during his time in school. Although “Indian Education” is written differently from other short stories it still conveys a solid theme and has a well written plot. Alexie’s style is also a benefit to the reader as they make their way through grade school with the main character, Victor.

The NRC says that 37% of American Indian children are living in poverty. The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian by Sherman Alexie is about a boy named Junior. Arnold Spirit Junior is a struggling indian boy who deals with poverty, abuse, and many hardships. Throughout time he gains the strength he needs to live on his indian reservation with more happiness and opportunities then he every thought was possible. Through all of his struggles, Junior creates a better education, friendship, and improves his self-confidence with his brave outlook on life, which shows taking risks and being brave can change hardships into bliss.

When reading the book Indians Wear Red (2013) you gain an insight on the after-effects of colonization had on the everyday lives of the aboriginal community.The book talks about how the environment they had settled on became an area for dams, which eventually made people leave their settlement due to flooding. These series of actions lead to financial problems, job losses and lack of education, and soon people started to turning criminal activities like gangs.The book also demonstrates to us how the aboriginal community decided to marginalize themselves from the rest of society, to help maintain their culture.In the book, we get to read and develop an understanding of what gang members and Aboriginal people went through and how historical events

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.

This story starts off in the streets of England. The main character is named Samuel Collier. He's caught when he tries to steal his mothers locket from a pawn shop. The person who catches him brings him to the ship yard to join the expedition to America. His capturer says to Captain John Smith that he is a hard worker so he would be good to take on the trip.

“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” is a short story in which Sherman Alexie, the author, writes about the expectations of Indian children and how he defeated them. Alexie’s thesis is about how reading was his key to overcoming the expectation of failure and that helping influence young Indians to read and write can save them from their prescribed fate as well. Primarily expressive writing is used to convey this message but literary writing is also used as a secondary purpose. Narration and description are the patterns utilized in Alexie’s writing as well.

Growing up is a significant thing that can change the way things are for you, it can change your attitude, your ways with getting along with others. It starts out when Arnold is born with something wrong his brain, people thought he was weird. people would always bully him, beat him up, and make fun of him. One day he is transferred to Rearden and meets new people who become his friends. he try’s out for basketball and makes it to varsity. he goes to the championship and wins. But after that has happened he loses his sister and his grandma. in the novel the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian, author Sherman Alexie suggest the idea that growing up is an important topic to the book; this becomes clear to readers when he goes through

A person’s heritage and cultural identity may be lost when moving to a new country where the culture is different and other cultures are not easily accepted. In the short story “Hindus”, Bharati Mukherjee uses setting, characters and the plot to discuss what it is like to lose your cultural identity while being a visible minority in America. Mukherjee uses the plot to describe the events that take place in the main characters life that lead her to realize how different the culture and life is in the America’s. She also uses the characters as a way of demonstrating how moving away from one’s culture and heritage can change a person’s perspective and ways of thinking. Mukerjee also uses setting in her story to identity the physical differences in culture between living in India and America. Alike the setting and characters, the plot helps describe the loss of culture with a sequence of events.

Over the course of history, Native Americans have faced many hardships.  They were treated immorally and robbed of the land they once settled in 12,000 years ago. These events caused a huge uproar in the Native American community and ignited a passion of altruism in many brave individuals. The absence of written works about the lives of Native Americans puzzled many historians and biographies like “Crazy Horse: A Life” have helped uncover true facts about Native Americans. Another source that displays their lives in a positive way is an autobiography called “I Believe It Is Because I Am a Poor Indian” that was written by a Native American minister and is based on the unfair treatment of Native Americans especially in the workforce. This paper focuses on the discrimination and determination of Native

In the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian there is a boy named Junior who was born with “water on the brain”. Throughout the story Junior faces challenges with fitting in with kids on the rez and trying to find success. In the novel Junior feels that he is losing a piece of his identity and transfers to Reardan High. Also, Junior's parents influenced his decisions, and faced obstacles when moving from one culture to the other.

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.

In this paper I will discuss specifically on the Classical Mahābhārata, taking it as representative literature of Ancient Bhāratavarṣa.

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.

It is truth and universally acknowledged that when ‘Word’ is compared to ‘Sword’, ‘Word’ is more ‘powerful’. Words are the most powerful ‘weapons’ in the world. Scars given by sword will only harm our ‘flesh’ and will fade away with time but scars given by words will rip our ‘souls’ and will remain till the end of your life. Words are so powerful that it can make us closer and unite us and also at the same time can corrupt and separate us. Words that we speak also incarnate our image. If there had been no existence of words in this world, none of us would have made any relation, none of us would have exchanged culture, none of us would have ever understood each other’s feelings and expressions or none of us would had ever read literature. However, without words there is no existence of literature and we might have not read about ‘Indian Freedom Struggle’. Literary work of Indian Poets during the contemporary period was so marvelous that it deeply affected and influenced people and also it resulted in their participation in the movement of independence. Indian poets used words in such a beautiful manner that it moved people to happily sacrifice their lives, wealth and family for the sake of their country. Britishers feared that certain kind of literature was being distributed among people of India. Because of the patriotic songs and poems like “The desire to make a Sacrifice is in our hearts”