form a strong cultural identity? Do we need to have 'real' territory to have cultural identity or can imaginative geography and history help intensify ones cultural identity and belongingness? In this essay, I will use Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. I will examine through the characters of Tha'mma and Ila in Ghosh's novel and Ashima and Gogol in Lahiri's novel and how their depictions of diasporic experience results in; vexed questions of identity and a quest
Amitav Ghosh’s fiction story The Shadow Lines is known as an outstanding book and won the Saahitya Akademi Award for English and the Ananda Puraskar Award. The Shadow Lines consists of two hundred and forty six pages and was published in 1988 by Ravi Dayal Publishers. The novel discusses different historical events that bring people together and keep them apart. The story is told from the narrators point of view. The narrator is a young boy growing up in Calcutta that is joined with the Prices
Lines and Shadows by Joseph Wambaugh Abstract Lines and Shadows, by Joseph Wambaugh, tells the story of a group of regular San Diego street cops assigned to a task force designated to stop the victimization of illegal aliens by bandits in a hellish no-man's land near the Mexico-United States border. The officers soon realize the issue may be too big for regular street cops such as themselves, and many must deal with the psychological, emotional, and social conflicts caused and manifested by
Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines challenges our understanding of points of reference by examining the shadowy borders between the self and other’s perceptions of the self. The narrator portrays Tridib’s internal struggle to become a heroic, active figure in contrast to the passive figure that May believes him to be. Ghosh explores Tridib’s attempts to create a coherent self-identity by considering what it means to be considered a success, what qualities constitute a hero, and how one can reconcile the
The narrator in The Shadow Lines presents unpleasant effects of nationalism through his grandmother, who initially supports nationalist ideology, but later turns against it after Tridib’s death in the riots. Hence Ghosh re-examines nationalism through a projection of post-independence
Common Themes in The Secret Sharer, Heart of Darkness, and The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad's stories The Secret Sharer, Heart of Darkness, and The Shadow Line share a number of themes. All three stories deal with a process of maturing that involves the loss of youthful illusions, a process usually precipitated by an actual "trial" that challenges the protagonist's professional skills as well as his assumptions about his identity and sanity. In successfully dealing with the crisis, the protagonist
at face value, but to seek a deeper understanding of everything so we are not deceived be mere shadows. Plato uses two different examples to try and educated people. The divided line and the Allegory of the Cave. The divided line created by Plato states that there are two realms. One is the visible realm and the other is the realm is intelligence. The visible realm breaks into two separate parts shadows and objects. The realm of intelligence also breaks into two parts the Mathematical form and the
this sonnet follows the typical form of most Shakespearean sonnets. It has 14 lines, which the typical rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. The sonnet is also written in Iambic Pentameter. This sonnet deals with the traditional sonnet topic of love. Many sonnets throughout time have dealt with the topic of love. In this sonnet there are several examples of repetition of words within the same line. The first two lines of Sonnet 43 start with the speaker declaring that he sees best when he closes his
None Escape Their Shadow: Cody Blunt’s The Master of Shadows Cody Blunt’s piece titled The Master of Shadows represents the assassin, Zed. This art piece was created in 2013 for the company Riot Games as the digital concept art for the character Zed. This piece can be found displayed as a representation of the character in their popular multiplayer online battle arena, League of Legends. In The Master of Shadows, Cody Blunt uses complementary colors, value, saturation, tenebrism, shape, and a small
all of his life searching for this mythical city. At the end of the poem, the shadow is telling the narrator how to find Eldorado even after he dies. The mood of this poem starts out as optimistic as the narrator tells about the brave, valiant, knight, and the grand search for Eldorado, however, it soon shifts to a dark, depressing, type of mood. The talk of death and the desperation that the knight feels when the shadow is talking to him, it conveys a sense of gloom, desperation, and death. The theme
Plato’s divided line is represented in the Cave Allegory, which is one of the core messages of his philosophical works. Plato used a line as an illusion to divide human knowledge into four levels, which differ in degree and clarity. Taking a line and dividing the line into two sections not equal in length; the upper level equates to knowledge, this is the realm of intellect. On the lower section of the line equates to opinion and is the world of sensory knowledge. Then cut these lines into two sections
biblical references, themes, and symbolisms through dissecting the piece as a whole as well in small sections for the viewers to see. The artist easily demonstrates the different skills sets and techniques of realism through his painting using light and shadow. In addition, Reigner makes certain objects and figures important and through his painting such demonstrating the use of color, emphasis and having lighting. Reigner makes the tone of the whole art piece dramatic
The Shadow on the Stone by Hardy A man stands in front of a druid stone just as a reader stares at a brooding poem of love lost and fonder days remembered. “The Shadow on the Stone” gives insight into the psyche of Hardy after his first wife’s death, yet how does someone come to such a conclusion? Through the understanding of the strategic usage of several literary and poetic devices his audience is able to discern their pertinence to the comprehension of Hardy’s message. This poem is not necessarily
leg in between the flute player's left leg. The line in the neck of the smaller guitar and the implied receding lines of the guitar's body depict linear perspective and add depth. Paolini creates value by using the artistic technique chiaroscuro or Italian for ‘light-dark’ on the flute player per DeWitte (2015, p. 84). The flutist back is highlighted in bright light coming from over his right shoulder. His front side or chest is bathed in shadow. The black background contrast with the predominate
side. In the middle ground, three teacups are placed in a diagonal line, parallel to teacups in the background. This time the teacup handles all point to the right hand side. In the foreground, right hand corner, there stands alone one teacup, its handle facing towards the left, pushed a little more inward, than the others. In the background, there is a light shining through lighting up the teacups, and shadows are formed. A curved line is also shaped contrasting the light from dark. The composer has
come into focus. The eight terms that help me analyze the visual experience of Wood’s painting are line, shape, mass, light, value, color, texture, and space. This picture is in landscape view, and is three-dimensional. You see implied lines that transition one thing into another thing such as roads, one hill to another hill, a bridge, and you’ll see the actual lines for a house. Some of the implied lines have curves that lead into windy roads that take you off into a distance with trees. You’ll find
horizontally. There are also huge waves around the raft. There are dark clouds off to the right of the raft and there is light on the left of the raft. The painting presents a feeling of chaos and disaster. It does this by its use of light, color, light, shadows, and even space. In regards to first impressions of the artwork, the viewer’s eve is first drawn to the large raft in the center of the painting. The focal point in the painting is the ship on the horizon. It is the focal point because most of the
he uses the first two lines as a view from the present into the past, then in lines 4 through 19 the audience is brought into his past with a perspective of it being his present. Hughes can be seen as bringing the reader into the present
goals. For teenagers, dreams seem to be their inspiration in life. They are stronger with the presence of dreams in their life. The persona first introduces his poem with the existence of his dreams, ‘It was a long time ago’ (line 1), and ‘I have almost forgotten my dream’ (line 2). This is typical in most teenagers. They come out with so many dreams, slowly the dreams fade as the time passes by and the dreams are forgotten due to their other commitments and in a certain point of their life, the dreams