The Interview by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and The Wog by Khushwant Singh are two stories with a lot in common. Some of the things they are similar in are the setting, the Indian tradition, and the character’s personalities.
The settings of the stories are held in India, and they describe Indian culture as well as help you image the basic Indian rituals. Indian traditions are different than American traditions especially when it comes to getting married. For example in The Interview, the main character describes his wife and then states,” My wife is not beautiful at all. I was very disappointed in her when they first married me to her.” This states that in this story they did not know each other before the marriage and that it was probably an arranged marriage. Many countries in the Middle East and Asia have arranged marriages, the family usually picks a suitable partner for their son/daughter that way the family approves and knows their children are in good hands. In the Wog the main character, Mr.Sen’s mother asked him if she could find a wife for him and he agreed to make his mother happy and she ended up putting an advertisement in a newspaper stating,”Wanted a fair good looking virgin of a high class respectable family for an Oxford educated Bengali youth of 25 drawing over Rs. 1,000 p.m. in first class gazette Government Service….” In America, we have a tradition where we find someone and decide on our own if we want to marry them, nobody puts an article in the newspaper asking for a husband/wife.
Both these stories also have similar characters; both the characters are delusional and think they are special and better than everybody else. In the Interview, the main character thought he was so extraordinary and he thought ever...
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... because living with his sister-in-law makes him feel happy. The wife in this story constantly gets ignored by her husband because he does not take her advice, to get their own house and their own life. In the Wog, Mr. Sen ignores his wife from the very beginning; the first sentence he spoke to his wife was when he asked her if his cigar smoke bothers her. When they stopped for lunch, they eat their own meals without saying a word to each other. In the end Mrs. Sen ends up killing herself because she realized she states she is not worthy of her husband. He ignored her so much to the point where she could not even handle it anymore and ended her life.
Overall, both of these stories The Interview by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and The Wog by Khushwant Singh have a lot in common when it involves Indian traditions, the settings of the story and the character’s personalities.
Overall, both of these stories are wonderful. They really get you engaged as a reader to understand the concept of the story and find the moral meaning of why the story is being told. These stories really helped me understand why it is so important for me to search for my meaning because I will never know where I am going if I don’t suffer and understand the bad things in life before receiving any good things in life. I would recommend any and every body to experience both of these magnificent stories because they are both extremely powerful and joyful to comprehend.
American Indian stories is the story of an Indian girl’s childhood experiences and how she went to school and also talks about the different Indian customs. The book sarts out with how her father, uncle and little sister were killed by the white men, and how much her mother resented the white men or palefaces as she called them. Bead work was one of the main things the Indian women did and so the little Indian girl also learned to do bead work by watching her mom. This book also tells of the many Indian myths or beliefs. In one case the little girl and many of the villagers were going to see a young warriors first arrival and their was a great party and during the walk to the center of the camp the little girl tried to grab a plum when her mother told her not to get a plum because the plum bush was growing out of the hands of an Indian boy who always like to play and eat plums. one day missionaries came to the camp to basically send mostly children to the East so they would learn the ways of the white man and also become civilized and in turn help bring more Indians Eastward to help with the modernization of America and Indians. The book describes in detail the regiment of what happened and how the little girl was feeling while she was in school and the day she went back home to visit her mother and also to recruit new children from the school she came from. Finally the little girl became a teacher. The book goes on to describing a warrior chief and his pride and joy in his little daughter and how he didn’t see anyone that would be able to marry his daughter. Blue-Star Woman was an Indian women at
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2007. Print.
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