Post your answers when the three lessons are over (15.35).
1. Characterisation of Lata (continued).
Describe her a) development, and
b) relationship to Anuj.
Use at least two examples from the text to support your answer (write the entire quote + reference - the reference alone is not enough).
2. Integration in the text.
a) Write down how many times the phrase ‘you alright?’ is mentioned in the text and what situations it appears in (also write down which page and line you have found the phrase).b) Can you see any development in the way Lata uses/understands the phrase?
c) What does this development symbolise do you think?
d) Can you find a tie between the way the phrase is used in the text and integration?
e) In what other ways does the text deal with integration? Find at least two examples in the text to support your answers (quote + reference).
3. The ending (p. 10, line 122-50).
a) Describe in maximum two lines what happens at the end of the story. b) How do you interpret (fortolker) the ending? For instance you can look at the way Lata and Anuj’s relationship is pictured in the end (development or not?), how the integration issue is developed/explored in the ending (development or not?), or something else which has relevance to the story.
Alexander, Morten A. og Christian
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1. Characterisation of Lata
A) She does not fit into this cultur:” She felt like an old woman, even though this sari was what she had worn at her engagement party back home (P. 8/10 L. 68-69). At the cinema they decide to watch an India movie. She is very excited. She recognizes all the places, and does not even follow the action. Her mind is drifting in India, while her body is still in England. Back in the car, she realizes she is back in England, and she burst into tears. She tries to keep her true feelings inside her, but after the movie, she can no longer hold back.
B) The relationship between Lata and Anuj seems rather friendly, but she sees herself as a more skilled person than Anuj, as he is having trouble finishing the crossword: “She looked at her husband still attacking the crossword. His forehead creased and pencil well chewed. She could finish it in forty minutes, but of course she wouldn’t tell him that (P. 7/10 L. 28-30)”. She looks down on her husband, but she keeps it to herself. When her husband is done, she just responds with a smile, telling him, that she loves crosswords as well.
She is also bored of her currently lifestyle as a wife. She wants to do something exciting, but Anuj seems to be holding her back:” Now you want to do something exciting” Anuj looked at her, concerned: “My bride is already bored? (P. 8/10 L. 45-46). Their relationship is based on a friendly basic. He may be her husband, but she does not love him: “ She would learn to love him. Yes, Ma had said so: she would learn to love him.” (P 8/10 L. 59-60)
2. Integration in the text
a) “you alright” is mentioned 6 times.
1. “are you alright love” – Guy in the cinema, while looking at the posters. P. 9/10 L. 92
2. “are you alright my dear” – Husband ask P. 9/10 L. 98
3. “you alright” – Lata wonders why people ask if she is alright P. 9/10 L. 101
4. Lata ask Anuj P. 9/10 L. 104
5. “are you okay” Anuj ask Lata P. 9/10 L. 113
6. Anuj ask Lata again P. 9/10 L. 149
b) The first five times Lata meets the “are you alright”, She sees it, as if she is being blamed for being wrong in a visual way. The last “are you alright” she knows that it is a question about how she feels.