Literary Analysis Of ' Midnight 's Children, The God Of Small Things, And The White Tiger '

Kiran Desai is an Indian writer. In the age of fifteen years, she left India for England with her mother. Her mother’s name is Anita Desai, who is also a recognized writer. After a year they moved to the America, where Desai has lived till date. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the America. She is a part of the Indian diaspora. Kiran Desai’ first novel is Hullaballo in the Guava Orchard. In this novel, she is dexterously able to portray male psyche. She won Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. This is her second novel. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize.

The book points out many different attacks on Indian culture. John’s adoption, legal or not, by his kind but misguided parents demonstrates the tragedy that can come from cross-cultural adoption. The experiences of Marie’s cousin Reggie, who has the tapes of his family’s stories stolen and co-opted by Dr. Mather (who has convinced himself that he is doing the right thing because the find is anthropologically valuable) demonstrates the wrongs done by intellectuals who only view other cultures in terms of what they can learn from them. Truck Schultz and the three enraged college students demonstrate how quickly the underlying distrust of

In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian”, author Sherman Alexie shares a compelling story representing racial issues among communities and families in cultural areas today, and a boy’s journey to find who he truly is, while being torn between two cultures. In this novel the main character, young Junior finds himself truly understanding that he is more than just an indian. In order to know more about the plot behind the novel, author Alexie takes the reader into Junior’s perspective to bring the story to life and let the reader understand how racial issues along with family problems make a play into today’s society. The novel shows a countless number of situations Junior encounters that impact his life throughout the novel.

Bharathi Mukherjee’s later novels Jasmine(1989), The Holder of the World(1993) and Leave It to Me(1997) comprised her last creative phase conveniently termed here as the phase of immigration. By now she has travelled a long distance in terms of thematic perception and character portrayal. Beginning with an expatriate’s uprooted identity in the early 70’s, her creative faculty explored the transitional dilemma of characters in early 80’s, whose acculturation bids were occasionally thwarted by the complexity of cultural plurality in the adopted land. However, after the publication of The Middleman(1998), the process of cultural acclimatization appears to be complete and the characters betray the confidence of an immigrant, almost a naturalized citizen, in facing the challenges of human life.

It truly is surprising how a person can change so drastically over a series of events. People can be made into monsters over the murder or death over a loved one for example. Or can be turned to a person of great faith when they were an atheist. This is what happened to Elie and was one of the main conflicts of the story, “Night”. As you can see in the book he loved going to his mosque and his love of God, however, as the story went on his faith slowly deteriorated and crumbled away even though he fought hard to keep it. This can happen to the best of people and there is no way to control it unless you are strong with your beliefs.

What does all this say about the human condition, not just in literature but for ordinary, everyday human beings? Do we have any control over the type of persons we become? Is there a fixed destiny in store for all of us? Some combination of the two? Before these larger questions can be addressed, it is necessary to begin with the texts before us. And in order to learn something about the significance of these moments of vulnerability and breakthrough for these heroes, it is important to establish the respective contexts from which they arise.

When adapting to a new culture, many find it hard to assimilate into their new world while still holding on to their past life. Finding yourself in a new place with a new language and unfamiliar faces is challenging for immigrants. Jhumpa Lahiri, an immigrant herself, sheds some light on the Indian culture in her book, Interpreter of Maladies. She conveys many challenges that immigrants face when moving away from their homeland in a myriad of short stories. These short stories introduce similar themes of immigration and adaptation through different experiences. Two of Lahiri’s short stories, “A Temporary Matter” and “Mrs. Sens”, do a great job in showing similar challenges of cultural differences in two different ways. They introduce characters

The thesis will employ certain literary critical theories such as the Postcolonial theory, Race theory, and Cultural theory to discuss the issue of cultural displacement and the role of the Minority family in saving their children’s cultural identity. American Indian Stories by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said, and The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood among Ghost by Maxine Hong Kingston will be employed as primary sources to support my argumentation. Secondary sources that listed in the references will be used to enrich the thesis.

The updated written part, i added some literary elements The Eye of the Tiger ​Many elements in Katy Perry’s Roar music video suggest that life has numerous struggles. Therefore, overcoming social adversity, stigmas and pressures, whilst trying to emerge victorious, in being comfortable with being yourself; is a battlefield. How do you overcome these adversities, whilst not falling into the trap of social stigmas and pressures? Why do we find ourselves in this negative frame of mind trapped by these pressures?

In fact, by attempting to glamourize suffering by portraying it superficially, writers may lose the connection with us that appreciates literature. Instead, what we are left with is an over extended attempt to glorify suffering, or hide it within a guise of reality that is too savage to be true. Instead of the appreciative feeling that reality imbues within me as a reader, I am left with a sense of disgust, confusion and dissatisfaction. This feeling almost overwhelmed me while reading Adiga’s “The White Tiger” and it tainted my experience with the book. Adiga had written the novel without any firsthand experience in the rural areas of India to which his main character referred to as the darkness. Instead, being of a higher class, his accounts were based on second or third hand experiences which do not adequately depict the lower class’ realities. I found the following depiction of India’s ghettos both farcically unrealistic and eventually

Among the nine stories in this collection, seven stories attempt to explore the fears and trauma of Indian immigrants in America who oscillate between cultural polarities. These people struggle to hold firm their ‘centre’- their family and values - in the Western society which constantly contradicts and challenges the culture they had once inherited from their forefathers. The other two stories are set in Bengal and probes into the predicament of two hapless Bengali women, one of whom is an orphan and the other, cut off from her family owing to political reasons.

In this paper, I plan to make the argument that the characters of the texts discover a new side of themselves while they understand the idea of ‘belongingness’ in their respective worlds. It is the medium of language, clothing, religion and/or food which enables them to reflect on their lives, in an attempt to make the most out of their present and

In “Journey to Dharmsala,” Rohinton Mistry offers a memoir narrative of his trip to the mountainous city of Dharmsala which emerges as an attractive, ocular and fictional delineation of a tour to a Tibetan people’s town in India that ease the speaker come full circle: His childhood imaginations which he pictured by seeing the photographs of his uncles family in reality were quite different in adulthood: “How far was it- that Dharmsala of my imagination and of my uncle’s youth-how far from what I had seen?”(51). However his childhood and adulthood coincide in peaceful moment that manifest Mistry’s glorification of his birth place India. Therefore, Mistry offers narrative structure that leads the reader to an agenda regarding Indian Nationalism. This is not to indicate that the speaker has some malevolent agenda to force Indian nationalism upon the reader. Rather, he shares experiences of his journey to divulge the subdued whisper of the essay in a manner that even he is not fully aware of. He produces regular imagery such that reader can visualise all the events and get attracted towards the speaker. Hence, the power of rhetorical analysis lies in the text is shown as an evidence of an analytical assert and tried to aim throughout this analysis.

The king’s hands shook as he gripped the arms of his gilded chair. “Set that monster there!” he shouted with such rage, the entire castle trembled.

Aravind Adiga’s debut and Man Booker Prize winning epistolary novel, ‘The White Tiger’, is a chronicle of the underbelly Balram, whose quest for freedom is a microcosm for the underclass and its life of struggle in 21st century, globalized India. Class antagonism and social stratification is an integral part of this society and ‘The White Tiger’ provides a brutally realistic exposition of the downtrodden through the first-person narrator, Balram Halwai, who is a strong voice of the underclass. This essay attempts to analyze how Adiga depicts the oppressed underclass in the context of a deeply divided India, characterized by a fierce class war, exploitation, and expanding globalization.