YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Father by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony
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In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...
Security to legal resident aliens. It was, thankfully, defeated, but it opened up an angry dialogue between the sisters on their d...
girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...
country...itll be because I want to be part of it" (Mukherjee NA). In this we see the subtle, yet powerful setting that will be de...
arranges marriages, though she also comes from a culture that, according to Indian standards, "Kerala is well known for its relati...
father" (Mukherjee NA). Without even getting into the specifics of this story we can immediately see that the patriarchal society ...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
instead. And she approaches relationships almost from a mythical standpoint. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, h...
The betrayal that Mukherjee felt in Canada 20 years before she wrote the piece echoes the feelings that Mira has, as she finds her...
from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their...
In five pages Jyoti/Jasmine/Jane's letter to her daughter who is now an adult is presented in terms of explanation as to why she l...
not only by her circumstances, but by her issues of identification. Within her marriage to Prakash, her name is changed to Jasmin...
he was so sick. The first I knew about it was a call from my Mom. She didnt give me any details over the phone, just said Dad was ...
This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
In a paper consisting of 6 pages the destructive relationship between father and son is examined in terms of the father's warped s...
In three pages this paper discusses how irony is used by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men....
In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....
those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...
the characters, in fact, notes that they are there without thought on the part of whoever put them together as they state, it is "...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
respect, everything that brought solidity to an individuals life in their former country, has been stripped from them. It is as if...
into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...
In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...
unique voice for their character, who is at once symbolic of the old Latin America and also indicative of what the new emerging co...
accomplishments. In fact, many research studies have found that the presence of a childs father in the home has a positive effect ...
he couldnt stop at one or two, it was a real problem for him and he became an alcoholic. When he was drinking he was completely ou...
to share himself; his beliefs, opinions, experiences and values. Also, in writing out a description of someone close, the student ...