Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Summary
Clothes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a short story written in 1995. It is about Sumita and her arranged marriage. Her friends in India are jalous of her because she is going to marry a man who lives in America.
She moves to America to live with her husband Somesh and his parents, and she slowly starts to fall in love with him. Eventhrough Somesh's parents, lives in America they are still very Indian and therefore Somesh and Sumita hides that she secretly wears Americans clothes. Sumita is torn between the Indian culture and her new life in America.
Sumita's husband is killed at his workplace by a man with a gun, and now Sumita has to choose between a life with her in-laws or move back to India but she choose to put her American clothes on, and not go back to her home country.

The narrator 
First person narrator
Seen from Sumita's point of view

Place
Both America and India

Themes 
Identity, Arranged marriage, Clash of cultures, Integration.

The clothes
Sumita dresses in many different kind of clothes, and it is a important element in the story. The clothes is symbolic, to her development and identity.

Perspective
Dusk over the Atlantic Wharf, both of the girls in these texts, gets married to a man they doesn't love in the beginning, they are both moving to a new country, and are going through a process figurering out how to fit in.

Aspects of the American Dream - Keywords

• Life = Liv
• Liberty = Frihed
• Pursuit of happiness = Stræben efter lykke
• Opportunities = Muligheder
• United people = Forenet folk
• Justice =Retfærdighed
• Civil rights = Borgerrettigheder
• Freedom of religion = Religionsfrihed
• Hope = Håb
• Human Rights = Menneskerettigheder
• Segregation = (Race-) adskillelse
• Oppression = Undertrykkelse
• Equality (-or lack thereof) = Lighed (-eller mangel på samme)
• Prosperity = Velstand
• Survival = Overlevelse
• Independence = Uafhængighed

I hear America singing

Eftersom jeg ikke er på toppen i dag, og derfor ikke kommer til fremlæggelsen, kan I se hvad jeg har lavet her: 

I hear America singing: 

It is written by Walt Whitman in 1867.

Setting: it is in America, in the working classes 

Speaker: is Walt Whitman who speaks in the poem, it is like he goes around and hear the people sing their song.

Composition: 11 stanzas in the poem.

Poetic: there is a metaphor, because the sound and actions of the workers is compared to music.

Theme: celebrates the individual workers of america 

5 word: america, workers, culture, national solidarity