Sarita Is A Lost Object

The short story, “Interpreter of Maladies,” written by Jhumpa Lahiri, is about an Indian tour guide who has an epiphany once he realizes that one of his clients finds his side job, an interpreter for the doctor, romantic. Mrs. Das, the one who appears to show interest in the tour guide’s occupation, struggles throughout her married life to remain loyal and loving to her husband. This characteristic of Mrs. Das’ is highlighted through the author’s use of tone, which is defined as the way the author feels about a certain character. As well, the use of tone, seen specifically in the diction, syntax, and detail of this story, helps to identify and support various themes. Lahiri’s use of a condescending tone towards Mrs. Das bolsters the theme that unfaithfulness causes someone to become alienated from their family.

However, she also gains the realization that she is too young to give up her journey towards acceptance and moving forward. Back in Toronto, as she walks down the street she hears the voices of her loved ones. They whisper that it’s her time and to “be brave” (396). Shaila drops the “package” in her hand on a bench, and keeps walking forward (396). Mukherjee uses the voices of her family to encourage her to drop the “package” (396). This can represent the grief and suffering she holds onto. Through letting go, Shaila can finally start walking toward a life of healing. Furthermore, she understands her family is always watching over her, and she must keep moving forward for herself, as well as them.

In order to earn her degree in creative writing she needed to complete a novel or set of short stories. She intended to write her memoir but ran into some issues. The emotions about what had happened were still too raw and reliving her memories was too much for her to handle at that time. Instead, she wrote an autobiographical novel. The events that happened in the book all happened to her, but the presence of a fictional character to represent her helped create tolerable distance between her and her experiences. This novel prepared her to write her memoir. Writing her memoir allowed her confront her past in a new way. It required her to revisit her memories as a writer rather than as herself with all her entangled emotions. Examining her life through a different lens allowed her to heal.

In the short “Sula” by Toni Morrison, we watch two young girls grow up in a small town, the Bottom, and become unlikely friends. These girls, Sula and Nel, are as different as night and day, yet they are inseparable when they were young. They were only separated when Nel gets married to Jude, and Sula leaves the Bottom for ten years. These girls choose different lives, and each life has different connotations attached.

Sullivan’s essay includes many rhetorical devices; the first one that stands out is the anecdote device because of the experience that she went through. She uses her personal life as a short story to catch the reader’s attention. This is an example of a great device that can be used for all essays, because every paper needs a “hook” that will keep the reader interested from the moment they start reading. Although, sometimes it is difficult for dual credit students to find something that can catch a reader’s attention, this essay can make it less difficult to understand. Another thing that can help the students is the analyzation in Sullivan’s

This personal confession shows that Mrs. Mallard, though she will mourn at first, now is free to “live for herself,” (228) not for her imposing husband. Before her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard believed she was in a healthy, normal marriage. This death revealed to her how while she cared about her husband, she despised the lack of freedom her marriage had given her. All of the realizations that Mrs. Mallard reaches during her time of reflection shows the readers exactly why she will no longer mourn the death of her husband.

The transformation in people's lives is caused by a variety of factors. There are a variety of these factors, but none is more influential than stress. In Eugenia Collier’s short story Marigolds, it tells the narrative of a young African-American girl living in rural Maryland. Due to her frustration with life, she tears up Miss Lottie’s marigolds. In the story Marigolds, the author uses the narrator’s transformation and characterization to convey that identity is only found in times of crisis.

This theme clearly presents itself to readers through the diction of the characters and the mental decline the narrator endures throughout the plot of the story. The narrator of this text is a sufferer of postpartum depression, an illness that can develop in women who have miscarried or given birth, this type of depression stems from a feeling of loneliness or emptiness, do to no longer carrying a

She eats by herself for the first time in her life, and afterwards remarks on how she feels about it: “How strong, how full of life and hope I felt as I walked out of that bakery. I opened my arms, burning to hug the new day. The strength of a million people was struggling up in me” (157). The words “strong,” “life,” and “hope” epitomize Sara’s newfound freedom she feels after breaking ties with her family. She relates her feelings within to that of “a million people struggling up in me” and these people-filled descriptions of loneliness show that even though she is physically alone, her individuality is such a success to her life that being only with herself is still a triumph. Sara continues, “I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with the grandest company” (157). She mentions that she is finally “alone with [herself],” but starkly contrasts this isolated description with the feeling of “the grandest company.” Sara celebrates her individuality another time when she leaves college with enough money to rent a beautiful room. She describes how, “I celebrated it alone with myself. I celebrated it in my room, my first clean, empty room” (241). By saying she is “with” herself even though she is “alone”, Sara demonstrates again that her individuality is a success. She celebrates the luxury of being alone and overcomes the hardships of her past by embracing

Additionally, since her work is very personal her feelings are clearly expressed through her words. The predominant emotions are anger and hope. Throughout her essay she is angry that writers are not expressing themselves to the fullest form. She described it as an injustice to the reader and to the writer. This is an injustice because a writer cannot pick and choose what is valuable, instead it is up to the reader, “ Whatever you find here of use you will take away with you, whatever you cannot use you will

The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.

It’s no surprise that books 1984 and A Thousand Splendid Suns have each graced the New York Times bestsellers’ list. Both books have a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude, which keep the reader enagaged and eager to find out what happens next. Often times the source of this healthy mix of happy and sad, is the characters’ relationships and overall well-being. Great authors do an excellent job of injecting pathos into their novels to evoke feelings of pity or anxiety in the reader.

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.” Sylvia Plath was a poet in the mid-twentieth century who was best known for her dreary and depressing work. This poem, the Soliloquy of the Solipsist was one of her earlier poems being written in 1956. This piece takes the theory of solipsism, which was developed by Rene Descartes, and creates a story of living the life of a solipsist. Sylvia Plath uses imagery, enjambment, and metaphors in her poem Soliloquy of the Solipsist to express her feelings of isolation and to escape her powerlessness in daily life as a result of her new, romantic relationship.

“An Unknown Girl” by Moniza Alvi is a free verse poem about the author’s experience getting her hand hennaed in an Indian bazaar. Throughout the poem, Alvi makes use of structure techniques like end-stopped lines, occasional rhymes, language, imagery, and changes in tone to explore different aspects of the concept of identity.

Tension and Moral Dilemma occupies an important place, position and appears to be the kernel of Kamala Das’s poetry. Kamala Das’s projection of self is the projection of tension and dilemma in her life. Her projection is biological, psychological, philosophical, confessional, self-expressive, self-recordative, self-explorative and self-realised. Her autobiography “My Story” is clearly projected in her poems and she is exception to others. Her tension of life and symbioses of opposites form the nucleus, forte and fulcrum of her autobiography.