Analysis Of Sinlanka

Where ever English left the land they put a mark between two groups, like in India, between Muslims and Hindus. In Srilanka, Sinhala and Tamils. In many countries and in many groups, they create a riot. In these things first to be suffer is women, there is no safety for women and children in war. When war begins lack of food, clothes, water etc...Except full of fear. In 1983 English left Srilanka, “on the new nation’s flag is poised a stylized lion” Sinhala rules the country. Like how in India hindus give first preference in every aspect, in Srilanka Sinhala plays an important role in every things. Tamils can’t tolerate this and fight for separate country. When the novel begins former English Manchester of Srilanka tells to his wife “A shame

They marry and build a life in San Francisco. They have a daughter and attempt to forget what has happened due to war. When the war ends, they are at first unbelieving and then overjoyed. Yasodhara vows to return to the island with her daughter. Over the years of the conflict, as many Sri Lankans were killed, tens of thousands of others from both Tamil and Sinhalese died, and left the war, an island of blood.

In the beginning of the novel itself we come to know how a woman suffers from her birth. When Beatrice murial gave a child birth, she thought her child is from her husband clan, born black. If the child was beautiful she will not talk of a clan. Every child was beautiful to their parents. But in nayomi munawera’s island of a thousand mirrors women and children was vanquished in every paragraph.

“We Sinhala are Aryans and the Tamils are Dravidians. this island is ours, given to us from the buddha’s own hand long, long before they came.”(26). A Sinhala teaches his clan that it is their own land, not Tamils, this island is direct gift from Buddha long before the Tamil came. But Sinhala forgets that Buddha himself came from India and settled in Srilanka a Tamil who gifts the island to Sinhala so know one know who came first. When mala judge granddaughter said that,

“but seeni banda, our teacher says the Tamil have been here just as long as we have. she says that no one really knows who came