Isolation In Voices In The City By Monisha

Jeanette and her siblings have never lived in anything but isolation. The Walls live in isolation because they are different. Since society was after them for not being a “typical family” and being unusual, they chose to isolate themselves. The society they lived in saw Jeanette and her family as “poor and ugly and dirty” (Walls 140).

The author also describes how the sound of her voice defrosted the barren cold that is the hallway. How she would rather sit down with the “pip-squeaks” than her friends. She was someone that Sonia wanted to be.

Blinded by her actions with her beliefs, she forgets the fact that faith without actions is dead. It is by this relentless character that causes her whole family to be murdered in the end.

Mai’s fear of losing the memories of her family leads her to realize the significance of her life and ultimately the possibility of losing her understanding.

The excerpt begins with a harsh tone about a woman she describes to be the cause of her separation with her lover. This portrays the simplicity and disorganization of the notebook entries which downright signifies the author’s unsystematic flow of thought. It triggers the readers’ attentions as the sentence presents confusion and

Anita Nair’s “Ladies Coupe” has narratives by six women characters who by chance meet in a train ladies coupe that Akhilandeswari alias Akhila boards in. all the women speak of the repressive forces of a patriarchal India. Though they are from different community or cultural, all women share pain in different means. The novel is a ‘bildungsroman’ either narrating the childhood to adulthood life or the characters liberation by developing confidence to shun the web of patriarchal metaphors.

demise, she furthermore sacrifices her moral beliefs when she works as a prostitute to afford

There is evidence of physical, mental, psychological abuse described from an early age. An alcoholic Father, controlling Mother responsible for a series of abortions made against the will of Malaika. A husband who after physically abusing her, once separated becomes a vicuous stalker inducing a consistent fear. At the central part of the book, a man walks into Malaika's life, a charming man with an accent, a man who seemed foreign to her in many ways, he was kind to her, offered a sanctuary away from her tyrannical husband and family, a role model for her two daughters in the true meaning of a “Father”. It is no surprise to the reader when this knight in shining armour turns out to be too good to be true.

She also saves her pride and arrogance as the Choragos remarks, “Like father, like daughter: both headstrong, deaf to reason! She has never learned to yield.” She had many chances to prevent her demise but her pride stood in the way. Through the progression of scenes leading to her tragic ‘fall’, she is every bit of the woman she was at the beginning.

When first introduced to the narrator, readers quickly pick up on how observant she is to the world around her. However as the novel draws to a close, many quick events take place with little to no explanation or commentary from the

The illustration form of the work shows how even though she is away from home, her parent figures played important roles in the ways she was raised that she even feels guilty that she was so fast to change who she was to substitute them for the lack of family. The film does not hone in on how important the component of lack of family is affecting Marji, however, in the book, there is a portrait (194) that contains each member of her family that she believes she has left done by not sticking by her identity. Although parent figures play a huge role in the development of Marji becoming a woman she cannot seem to grasp and internalize the importance of staying true

The movie gives the message that women must do acknowledge their responsibilities towards themselves, which can and should never be neglected or postponed for the sake of anyone or anything. Nothing in this world is worth sacrificing your own aspirations for. A person’s greatest assets are self-respect, dignity and individuality. Woman should safeguard her identity by not letting her individuality get submerged and by keeping her priorities intact all her life and creating a place for herself.

Her brother's death, together with her own ingenuity and hard work, soon allowed her to take Nhamo's place at the mission as the family scholar and benefactor. In the end, it is her coming into her own feelings, feelings about the way she herself deals with the new world that had been opened up to her, both its rewards and costs, that does as much to shape her life as any of the education she receives at school.

Her attempt of her suicide was a failure. Later on, she tells her father she frees herself from him: “I made a model of you, / A man in black with a Meinkampf look / and a love of the rack and the screw. / and I said I do, I do” (64-67). The speaker later marries a man that is very similar to her father. The relationship with her husband was very much like her and her

She tells Marji about when her father got arrested, and she lost everything including their wealth. Despite her family being in poverty she still looks forward to seeing her family looking modest. Later on that night, her family continues to wait on Marji’s father to come home from taking pictures of demonstrations. He took pictures also must every day, but that day he was running very late. Marji immediately assumes that he is dead because taking picture of the demonstrations is very dangerous.