The Candy Man

flaring red and orange clematis and Emily watering her soft pink and blue periwinkle plant. They all stood out and their color popped out. Early every morning the grandma and grandpa would water the plants too. On that particular morning, as the old man went outside to water the plants , the grandma went to the kitchen to look in her magic cookbook. Up,Up,Up she stretched to get the book down from the shelf and put it on the kitchen table. The book belonged to her mom, and her moms mom,before that

The novel Ice-Candy Man, comprehensively describes how both upper-class and working-class women dealt with the communal oppression and violence upon feminine body that ensued in the newly partitioned province. Mother, Godmother and Ayah adopt different positions of privilege or not privilege during Partition. Sidhwa’s women characters adopt different methods of negotiation, accommodation and resistance to respond to their situations. Sidhwa provokes a deeper examination of the multiple forms of violence

Ice Candy Man showcases violations of human rights and the pathetic living conditions during the partition of Subcontinent in 1947. Through the eyes of Lenny, Bapsi Sidhwa, the writer, provides details of how the political changes and the political scenario in those days affected the citizens of India. The theme of the novel is focused deeply on the exploitation and suppression of women and how men used their masculine powers in order to fulfil their desires and brutally assault the women. Sidhwa

Post-colonial Perspective on Partition Sidhwa makes it clear in Ice Candy Man, that although Muslims and Hindus are living together for centuries, the high social and cultural barriers separating them remain unchanged. A Hindu would not even touch his food in the presence of a Muslim. A Muslim entering a Hindu kitchen would pollute it. Lenny describes this incident when the food of a Brahmin priest is polluted by the shadow of non-Hindus (116-117). So there were ideological boundaries between Muslims

Revealed in Of Mice and Men Being alone can eat away at a man. It can make a man think unreasonable things are reasonable, it can make a man blame other people for things that are unblamable, and it makes a man do anything to not be lonely. In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, two men named George and Lennie travel the country running away from problems and looking for work. They come across an old, disabled man, named Candy. Candy’s characterization is revealed throughout the story

windows. If a blind man walked into the rectangular building, he would have never known a man named George was sitting on a bunk near the blackened stove, gazing at the floor, his eyes full of morose. The mattress next to him and the shelves hanging above it were empty, as if no one had sat on the bed or placed their belongings on the makeshift apple box shelves in a long while. Candy walked in, his eyes full of pity, and George averted his gaze from the floor up to the old man, but immediately looked

display loneliness. Many instances of loneliness are shown through Curley’s wife, Candy, and the ranch’s stable buck, black man, Crooks. In Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife plays an important role in loneliness because of the fact she is the only woman on

through everything and anything, is most suitable for the scene where a brawl breaks out between Lennie and Curley in the bunkhouse. Curley, a strong, aggressive, young man, is being taunted and

Loyalty and the good in Characters where shown in the film. This is shown when Candy and Moe refuse to give up the location of Skip. Skip shows a good side to him as he loves Candy and takes down the commies. Greed is also show in the film. Joey shows the greed most of all. He is working with commies, shoots people and driven by the potential wealth. Whenever the camera was on Joey

Candy is presented by Steinbeck as a pitiful miserable character. Candy has lost control of his life and of his future and has been reduced by society to a gossiping cleaner. The only characterisation we receive about Candy and other characters is through their speech. Candy is given new confidence when he speaks negatively of Curley’s wife. He enjoys the audience of George and relishes the sense of power, in that he knows more about the ranch than George. George although seemingly ‘Casual’ and ‘Uninterested’