Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters Analysis

Kahu, the protagonist of the story, is a young girl who is disliked by her grandfather, Koro Apirana, just because she is a girl. Koro Apirana is a man of tradition and is not open to change. Koro spends most of his time searching for a male successor of the tribe because he will not have a woman take on this task. He is blinded by the strength and power of the one he has right in front of him, Kahu. Through this book one can see how women were considered inferior to men and despite their capabilities they were not allowed to showcase their talents. However, if the novel targeted people living in today’s society, it would be considered sexist and backward. Although to people back then, this type of discrimination would have been considered

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel, The Palace of Illusions is the epitome of feminism. It retells the story of Mahabharata from the view point of Draupadi, the daughter of King Drupad. The delicate threads of her life have beautifully been interwoven to bring forth a grasping story. Chitra Banerjee has herself written “I would uncover the story that lay invisible between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still I would have her one of her tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way in which she sees her world and her place in it.”(XV).

Aaaaaaaaaahhhh Why do sisters have to be so annoying? The book Sisters by Raina Telgemeier is like any other sister relationship. When Ranina wanted to be a big sister she could not wait. But when her little sister Amara came she she kind of wished it had never happened. Amara is a very funny ,but she is annoying as ever ,and kind of a big baby. She likes to play a lot ,but she is mostly alone. I can’t say that Raina and her sister have a perfect relationship like sisters should. Later on that year both Raina and Amara get to be big sisters because her brother come along.The hardest thing that happens to any family is the parents having a conflict. Raina’s parents disagree mostly everything ,and they put their fights aside and help make their family better.

Women in India were unaware of their miserable condition. It is in the post independence period the women’s quest for identity of her own commenced. The 20th century saw the shift from outer to inner sensibilities and no one can better understand a man or woman better a feminine writer. In modern English fiction a number of women novelists have arrived on the literary scene, they have set out making new forays in to the world of women. Nayantara Sahgal being a feminist writer has emphasized in her novels on freedom and a new definition of the New Women. Sahgal’s heroines are well aware of the injustice done to them in their marriage and they come out of this traditional bond.

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.

Shashi Deshpande is one of the famous contemporary Indian novelists in English. She writes about the conflict between tradition and modernity in relation to women in middle class society. Shashi Deshpande’s novel deals with the theme of the quest for a female identity. The complexities of man-woman relationship especially in the context of marriage, the trauma of a disturbed adolescence. The Indian woman has for years been a silent sufferer. While she has played different roles-as a wife, mother, sister and daughter, she has never been able to claim her own individuality. Shashi Deshpande has emerged as a writer possessing deep insight into the female psyche. Focusing on the marital relation she seeks to expose the tradition

Miss Rosa describes her niece, Judith Sutpen, as "a woman more strange to me than to any grief for being so less its partner" (120). Judith is a woman well-acquainted with suffering, losing first her mother, then her fiancé at the hand of her brother, and finally her father. She watches her family 's wealth disintegrate as a result of the heavy toll exacted by the Civil War, and eventually becomes accustomed to tending her own garden, spinning her own thread, and weaving her own cloth as the poor would do (125), since the Reconstruction Era showed no discrimination in turning both wealthy and impoverished Southerners into "the poor." Once her childhood has come to a close and the era of desolation has set in, during which she is forced to cope with hardship after hardship, Faulkner begins to consistently portray her as wearing a worn, discolored homemade dress of calico or gingham (plain-woven cotton fabrics). In one sense this represents the poverty that is laying waste to the South and the Sutpen family, but on a deeper level the dress comes to symbolize the deprivation and sorrow which Judith has endured, and specifically her inability or perhaps refusal to emote in response to these tragedies.

In the article “The Lost Girls”, Apoorva Mandavilli introduces her argument with the story of a girl with autism who was misdiagnosed nine times. She explains how autism is not as noticeable in females as it is in males. Being misdiagnosed can cause many years of struggle with different professionals and doctors, as it is shown in the young girls that Mandavilli introduces. Mandavilli builds off these young girls’ stories and creates an argument surrounding the issue with misdiagnoses of females with autism. While she writes in an informative tone, her belief is not agreed on with some professionals in the field, so her goal is to convince her audience that the misdiagnosis in the young girls are caused by the limit of information and unknowingness of clinicians. As she builds her argument against clinicians, she uses different literary elements to help persuade the audience. Mandavilli begins her article with a captivating title and assisting subtitles throughout the article to help shape and organize her argument. Her argument consists of factual information along with anecdotes as supporting evidence. In terms of language, she primarily uses descriptive adjectives and tone to expand her argument. In her argument, Mandaviilli uses literary elements in her language to potentially persuade the reader.

God has bifurcated sex into male and female whereas man has named in the sex and the fair sex or the superior and the inferior or the first and the second sex. The gender inequality has created unlawful male authority over women. The chief tasks of women were childbearing, rearing, and to satiate every desire of their husbands. This confinement of women made them mere servants of the superior sex. Education is one big question that haunts Amitav Ghosh. According to Amitav Ghosh education is memorization of facts at one level. It is a tool to get a livelihood. It sharpens human sensitivities. It kindles social consciousness in children. Education uplifts living standards of Indian masses and save them from nightmarish depths of poverty, ignorance and disease. Thus we find that through the women characters of his novel Sea of Poppies Ghosh wants to focuses on the evils of Indian society or the falls conception of Indian society about women. All women characters in Sea of Poppies show the real sufferings of women either by their family or by their society. All the human sufferings are the impediments on their way of

A individual born in an Indian family develops their personality according to the culture, and this influences the manner they live and behave. The values and expectations of Indian culture define the unique experiences of women. In the novel, The Secret Daughter, the author makes the effects of the society on the Indian women evident through the struggles Kavita and her family experience. First of all, Kavita is introduced as a poor village woman, who lives with her husband and his family in a rural town in India. Kavita and her husband, Jasu are newlyweds, and try to have children early in their marriage. Unfortunately, Kavita lives in a society that favors males and considers having daughters as a burden to the family. The expectation

A woman's role in society is ever-changing. For many year's women were subjected to strict societal norms, ideals and were defined by the male figures in their lives. Gender roles and relations still make themselves apparent in society's perpetuating inequality, whether through traditional beliefs adapted over the years or societal norms embedded into all aspects of life, including literature. As time passes, women have striven to set their own standards and are now able to stand unapologetically tall in society. Many different factors have aided in allowing women to rebel and evolve against conformity, one significant element being literature. More specifically, literature that breaks barriers for women in allowing their portrayal to defy degrading roles and literature that brings the expectations of women in society to light.

People may speak out words in life that may affect themselves and other after losing someone that was significant, which can connect to Indian and Pakistani literature. All parts of a struggle coming back to a character facing the past being alone in life can create emotions overall. Readers must comprehend that people in society today can relate to Indian and Pakistani literature where one feels alone. A reader who looks at Indian and Pakistani literature can understand that people with struggles in India or Pakistan countries can go through a lot with their emotional past. For the most part, the significance of Indian and Pakistani literature is to make a reader acknowledge how going through a tough situation can cause circumstances that get emotional for a character's self and others around them. In today's society, people may associate to this literature to distinguish a relationship with people being alone through the countries India and

Though the positions women held in the early Vedic period had been of high standards, the emergence of the Laws of Manu led to the restriction of women’s independence later in this period. The Laws of Manu is one of the most influential sacred writings and this Dharma Sastra is deeply embedded in this society. The Laws of Manu illustrates many roles women should have such as being a caretaker, having to obey her husband and being an object of either her father’s, husband’s or son’s possession. The Laws of Manu don’t encourage independent women, it clearly

Anita Nair is a popular Indian English-language writer. She has much insight into the concerns of studies, family, love and striving for fame and fortune . She makes an attempt to show the quality of strength in a woman. Anita Nair also adds that strength is not usually considered a woman as this. Her styles ultimately differ from other feminist writers. In other words, she is a feminist with difference. She traces the real position of women in the families as well as in the society. Her attempt to exhibit the plight, fears, dilemmas, contradictions and ambitions of her women characters is remarkable. Her primary focus of attention is the world of women, the struggle of women in the content of modern Indian society. Her novel reveals the

Many literature works have been written in different periods and eras and many great writers and film makers have been there to ensure that art is appreciated all over the world. The content and themes that are contained in these literature works are still applicable and exists in the current societies that we dwell in. The major themes of human sexuality, the various religions of the world, the segregation of human in terms of race or gender and the effect of power when it is totally imposed to human beings. Various encounters face man in his day to day activities and this can be portrayed through writing the events in books or either by acting in theatres. Taking us back to time, the writers are able to make the younger generation familiarize