Review of Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan
The subject of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that,
a girl who was born in Pakistan and who has been growing up in England
in an English way of life. One day when she was aware that she is
going to get some gifts from her beloved aunts living in Pakistan she
expected to get some ordinary western style of clothes I.e. denim and
corduroy, but unfortunately she received some Pakistani styled clothes
I.e. salwar kameez, Indian jewellery and sarees. So, this poem totally
describes how she reacted and felt towards the incident happened.
The purpose of the poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" is that
the girl who has been described in the poem has been born in Pakistan
and brought up in England in the English way of life and in parallel
to their style of living. And when she received some gifts from
Pakistan in Pakistani style she feels that these things are so far to
be worn in England because it's so far from the English's style of
living in comparison with the Pakistani's style of living. And when
she tried to wear that on in her English styled bedroom she felt like
as though there has been an alien in her room. So, the purpose is that
how she feels different and as an alien from the gifts received.
The emotions of this poem are feeling alienation, different, feeling
embarrassment, disappointment and love and happiness. The craft of
this poem are as follows Line number eighteen says "I could never be
lovely as those clothes". This line prove how much she likes the
clothes sent from her aunts in Pakistan and she also proves the
happiness she felt from sending her beautiful clothes from her aunts
in Pakistan although she was not in the position to wear them on. In
line number twenty "I longed for denim and corduroy". From these two
lines I have mentioned, I can prove that she liked the gifts sent from
her aunts in Pakistan but she not in a country where it would be
The speaker's relationship with her husband had to go over a few changes. At first, she did not want anything to do with her husband, she was still fourteen years old consequently feeling unready on handling such a big responsibility, but she had no other choice but to stay with him as she was a part of an arranged marriage. Later on, the speaker accepts her relationship with her husband and
marriage. She was to do just as he said, without so much as uttering a
an example of one of the decisions she makes throughout the book. The act of doing the correct
lived in the time of the American civil war and her mother was a slave
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