Summary Of The Freaks By Kamala Das

Consciously, the woman communicates that she yearns for her lover, yearns to engage in sexual intercourse with him. Subconsciously, however, the need to “bear” her partner’s “weight” indicates that there is a burden attached to her expectations surrounding this engagement. This specific word choice takes the passion out of the erotic, so much so that the psychoanalytic interpreter is left to wonder why this woman is actively pursuing something that she clearly does not enjoy. To draw upon the developing thesis, the answer is that she does so in order to avoid acknowledging her repressed sexuality. In this way, the lover is not a ‘lover’ in the romantic sense of the word, but rather a sexual object. He is an objectified prop manipulated in order to fulfill

Mr. Kapasi found a growing affection for Mrs. Das when she expressed that his job translating for patients, which he thought of as a sign of his failings, was actually romantic to her. Mrs. Das began as an inattentive passenger in his tour to the Sun Temple who paid little attention to her kids, husband, and sights around her. She and Mr. Kapasi warmed up to each other while discussing Mr. Kapasi’s other job and tourist attractions. Mr. Kapasi was flattered by this woman who he deemed attractive and in an ill-suited marriage. Because of the new-found intoxication with this women who showed genuine interest in him, he even began to doubt his own marriage with his thoughts, “He wondered if Mr. and Mrs. Das were a bad match, just as he and his wife were,” (Lahiri 53). Both Mr. Kapasi and Miranda began to enter into controversy with their new relationships with partners who made them feel cherished while staying oblivious to other concerning factors in the growing relationships.

The poem then explores power perspectives and dwells specifically, on feminist and gender issues. The professor represents the patriarchal power of the past. The time of “calm age and power”. The “girl with the titian hair” is symbolic of the feminist challenge to such patriarchal

Mirabai threw herself into her devotion to Krishna wholeheartedly. Her songs attributed to the deity are filled with feelings love and “tortured longing,” as the saint expresses her need to be united with her one true love, the Lord Krishna (Mirabai 82). The use of

In his article “Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain,” Benedict Carey expresses that love is not necessarily an emotion but rather a neurological and physical phenomenon. After comparing new love to mania and obsession, Carey offers evidence of romantic love as a neuropsychological event through the description of the caudate nucleus (a specific part of the brain which produces the neurotransmitter dopamine), explaining the cause of desire and passion in relation to love.

Poetry is used by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Kate Chopin to express ideas and words through a sense of writing and rhythm that is felt by the poet who is writing it. Years ago, poets would use poetry as a record of history where they told life events that was happening or how modern societies were expected to be. “The Poetry of this period forms the immediate background and matrix of their own work, so much so that unless one keeps the later nineteenth century.” (Venuti, The translator's invisibility, 2017.) Each author made poetry different by changing the tradition and outlook on poetry which is also known as the dead poet’s society. Authors from the past heavily influenced everything that was created in a poem. “Sweat” written by Zora Neale Hurston was written during a time period women didn’t have an opinion and it was frowned upon to disagree or go against your husband. This woman in the story over comes the current times cultural norms. The “Awakening” written by Kate Chopin, speaks out against societies gender roles and says women are evolving to hold more than the titles “mother” and “housewife.” It was the time of shifting order and woman gaining more rights than was handed to them. Kate Chopin used her poetry to give an insight of what limitations she might have encountered in her life as a woman and it explained her choices she chose to help the reader understand what she may have felt towards the subject during this

In Rodman Philbrick's compelling story Freak the Mighty, Max was kidnapped by his own dad who now has begun his plan to brainwash his own child into believing that everything this whole time has been a lie and he's innocent. After taking a rest Kenny starts his plan by telling Max that he killed nobody and he was just assumed for that because, of his size. This displays that, Kenny is manipulating his own son into believing that he is innocent. He even uses the Bible card by swearing he isn't a serial killer. At first Max was more agitated and nervous, but, when Kenny got the bible out, Max started to feel numb and think. After a long talk and some more sleep Killer Kane goes to Max and continues his goal of brainwashing his own child by, coming

The text proceeds from analyzing each poem individually, and later draws parallels between the two. It tries to answer the questions whether the poems are a call to social irresponsibility, and if the object of the poem, the common man should be scorned or pitied. That the common man who is busy conforming to the norms of the state and the society has lost connection with his natural surroundings evokes sympathy for him. Materialism has subsumed his capacity to think to an extent that he cannot even decide whether he is free to do as he wishes – can he say no to enlisting for war? Or can he hold an opinion that did not coincide with the larger public?

Set in Michigan, Freak the Mighty, written by Rodman Philbrick is a realistic novel told from the perspective of one of the main characters Max. Max is a teenage boy who has special needs and no friends. Kevin a.k.a. Freak is the other main character. Kevin has a life threatening disease were his organs grow faster than his body .Michigan is similar to Detroit and Lansing because they are both urban environment I think the setting takes place in a city more like Lansing .Since it's economy is decent compared to Detroit. I think the plot of the story is a maturation plot because Max learned how to read ,write and to be polite to people with Kevin (Freak) .Those are some skills you learn while you mature.

Detached from love, being the “unloved”, and not knowing how to seek or expel love are all problems that are relevant to the lives of many. Through the plot of Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home,” Jesse Lee Kercheval’s “Carpathia,” and Susan Minot’s “Lust,” it is evident that love and its psychology plays a major role in one’s self worth and ability to love and accept it in

The love story is one of the oldest and most cherished traditions in any world culture. The prevalence of romantic works throughout history, whether Greek myths, Jane Austen’s dramatic narratives, or today’s dime-a-dozen romantic novels, ultimately encourages us to believe in the power of true love. We identify with the archetypal star-crossed lovers, who combat established convention in order to assert their romance, because we too yearn for our own “happily-ever-afters.” When used in conjunction with reason, love is the highest form of compassion – without it, we could not possibly interact productively with one another or develop as individuals. But when we take a new perspective and examine love as an independent,

Moreover, Forman believes that poetry is everywhere, and surrounds the world in simple, everyday things, and is even to “wear bright red lipstick/n practice kisses in the mirror” (Forman 5-6). In her poem, she describes different scenarios that poetry is present, such as on the bus (Forman 13), and delinates how it isn’t confined to just lines on a page. In contrast to the traditional views of poetry, Forman theorizes that poetry is not words on a page waiting to be begrudgingly divulged, but is an art form that can take several different forms, whether that be an act of kindness, love, or simplicity. Vis-à-vis, Forman views poetry as an intangible force all around her, and thinks that “poetry should drop by a sweet potato pie/ask about the grandchildren/n sit through a whole photo album” (Forman 17-19). In this, she is saying again how poetry is an undemanding art form and is not just stanzas and lines.

In chapter fourteen, Freak gives Max some wise words while he and Max talk about Freak’s upcoming surgery. Max asks Freak why he can not just stay the way he is and not change, but Freak says he must, telling him that everyone changes no matter what. Max may remember this when he is discussing the topic of his father being put up for parole. Max’s dad may not be the same when he gets out of jail, showing that he changed just like Freak mentioned. Rather than being a killer, he may be reformed and better, proving that people can change. However, the words could also apply to someone like Tony D. It is possible that Tony D. will change and help Freak and Max, despite his previous behavior towards them. If either of these happened, Max would learn

The book Freak the Mighty is written by Rodman Philbrick. The main characters in this book are Freak and Max. The theme of this story is friendship. Freak and Max always were friends and supported each other even in hard times. The story takes place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in modern day. I would recommend this book as it has a lot of action and suspense.

The poem entails opposite sex, the male and female. They were lovers and the man showed and expresses his sexual desires. The opposition in the text is obviously the side of the man who is the speaker and the female who have been describe in the poem as