Imaginary Homelands

suggested her marriage had been imprudent, that seven years abroad had eroded all that was fine and sensitive in her Bengali nature”(TD,55). When Tara writes letter to her husband regularly, she fails to communicate her feelings and experiences in her homeland. Tara again confused for her behaviour that she did not share her feelings and experiences to her husband. She finds very difficult to mingle with her family and culture. In that she occurs a conflict in her mind between her old senses of her past

the first-generation immigrants, who travel from other countries, and the second-generation immigrants, who were born and raised on the immigrated land. These differences include the purpose of being in the foreign land, the connections to their homelands, society’s view, and the culture differences. The first difference between those two groups is the purpose of being in the foreign land. First generation immigrants from parts of the world travel to other countries for different purposes. It can

young kids are always innocent and carefree. Unfortunately, this notation has turned to be old-fashion today. Adam Gopnik, a Canadian American writer, essayist and commentator, mentions that his daughter, Olivia, finds out a way to play with her an imaginary friend named Charlie Ravioli. Still, Olivia is a three-year-old kid, it is impossible for her to analyze aspects systematically and creatively. However, for some adults, like Alain de Botton, a Swiss philosopher and writer, seeks out an innovative

Analysis of Plato's Allegory of the Cave Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" presents a vision of humans as slaves chained in front of a fire observing the shadows of things on the cave wall in front of them. The shadows are the only "reality" the slaves know. Plato argues that there is a basic flaw in how we humans mistake our limited perceptions as reality, truth and goodness. The allegory reveals how that flaw affects our education, our spirituality and our politics. The flaw that Plato

Plato, Fink and Powers all have the same philosophy that pleasure is not the telos of life but a second good (Lecture slide 8, Sept. 19th 2016). Powers and Fink conceive pleasure as a causation of the act of play. One of the main forms of play that is talked about by Power and Fink is imaginative play. This is where, in part, Plato’s view differs from that of Fink and Powers. Plato does not see imagination as a way for people to cultivate themselves or a way to attain knowledge; he views imagination

Imaginary friends are common for kids to “play” with growing up, but in my case my imaginary friends were actual people who I just didn’t know. Growing up I learned I had two biological brothers that were adopted when I was one. I’d always dreamed about what it would be like to meet them and play with them. After sixteen years that dream became a reality. My mom had eight kids total but only three were biological. I grew up with my five half-siblings, two were older than me and three were younger

Growing up is something that everyone goes through. As one grows older they feel differently about growing up. A young kid wants to grow up and going out into the real world, then that same kid grows up a bit and faces the reality of life and doesn’t want to grow old, but instead wants to go back, the last phase is just accepting the fact that this is happening no matter what. The first stage is wanting to grow up and looking forward to it. The story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros shows the perspective

The community whom she was around endorsed her to make up her own imaginary friend so she was able to have felt loved and surrounded with company. Her imaginary friend led her to believing that she had blue eyes when she didn’t. She was happy to have her imaginary friend because it was the only one who was there for her and would “talk” back to her with positive words. Pecola never felt loved by her family nor her

David panhandled on the street for enough money to send his real family to New York for Christmas. It was a long flight but his two kids didn't give a care. As soon as they saw their dad, they started barraging him with questions. They were always interested in maths because of their father’s occupation. The eldest son started first, “Why did we ditch the fifth axiom? Why did Tupper make an equation and not ware? How do you win a guessing game? Whats a hyperbolic sport? Why is 82,000 extraordinary

the acts of Imaginary Audience and Egocentrism both. Because Charles is the ‘rare black face’ he feels like he is never good enough nor as smart as them. His attitude becomes that if he has ‘to perform, he will perform’ and proves that he is better than them if he is tried. Once he beat up another student just to prove that he is capable of protecting and defending himself as well as established some credibility within himself so the other boys in the school would know. Both Imaginary Audience and