Dusk Martin

Characterisation of Lata.

A. Development

In the beginning Lata sits in her apartment with her husband, feeling bored and restless. She doesn’t feel that she fits in with the Walish way of living, looking at the neighbors houses across the street.

Later on she passes some people in the street, on her way to the movies with her husband. She doesn’t feel like she belongs in this town, she doesn’t feel like she has anything in commen with the other people on the street.

The movie is filmed in her home town, and overexcited she keeps pointing out things she recognizes from her life back when she lived there.

In the car, after the movie, she starts to cry, because she realizes, after seeing glims of home, how much she misses it all. At the same time she accepts the reality she’s in now.

 

 

B. Relationship to Anuj

Their relationship is based on an arranged marriage, and Lata is trying desperately to make it work, constantly convincing herself that she will learn to love him. But Anuj is blind to her doubt and goes on like nothing is going on.

 

Intergration in the text

A. “You alright” is mentioned four times.

First: outside the cinema (p. 3, l. 92) where a stranger askes her “you alright” because she is laughing to herself, waiting for Anuj.

Second: outside the cinema (p. 3, 98) where Anuj asks her “you alright, my dear” after returning with the tickets.

Third: outside the cinema (p.3, l. 101) Lata gets angry with Anuj, for asking her “you alright”, when it clearly shows that nothing visibly is wrong with her.

Fourth: in the car, at the parking lot (p.4, l. 149) Lata has just been crying, and Anuj asks her if she’s alright

 

B. Development in the way the Lata uses/understands the phrase “you alright”

At first she can’t figure out why people ask each other that, when they clearly don’t mean it. But, at the end she realizes that it is merely a way of being polite.

 

C. what does it symbolize

That she throughout the story gradually gets a better understanding of the way people think.

D. se svar C.

E. in what other way does the text deal with integration.

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The ending

A. Description

After watching a movie filmed in India, Lata sort of realizes that she has to open up to the new country and life she has with Anuj.

B. Interpretation

Anuj has maybe still been living in india. She hasn’t realizes that this is where here new life will take place.