Summary Of The Lover By Bouraouo

In “Tomboy” by Bouraoui and “The Lover” by Duras, there are many things to consider when it comes down to understanding what persuaded both women to write their story. Having read both novels, we come across some similarities and differences commonalities in the pursuit to write. Both authors writing style illustrates their own story and experience in which they each went through. Growing up as a young girl or woman, we suffer from all types of constraints, whether it is family constraints, societal acceptance, discrimination, religion beliefs, or even cultural constraints, we all experience at least one of those. In Tomboy, a young girl name Nina undergoes a stressful childhood because she is faced with multiple cultures. In The Lover, we

The Lover is about a young girl who also suffers from cultural and societal constraints. As she fights to find her own identity, she stumbles across challenges that can be violent or sexual. The Lover is an autobiographical novel, some of which are true and some made up. This novel is far from our romantic and happy ending. It seems as the way Duras writes, she’s telling a story to someone and writes it as they come to her head. There’s not a sequence in her story, no specific order of the story. Throughout the novel, it’s more so a collaboration of pictures, stories, memories and feelings than a sequential story. The uses of flashback are greatly used in this novel. Duras constantly takes us back and forth from live events and vividly picturing the narrator life. Her story is told in a way that we see a constant change in happiness, hatred, and violence all mixed in one. Her brutal relationship with her and dysfunctional relationship with her family encouraged the relationship we see with the Chinese man. Being French, she wasn 't allowed to marry a Chinese man. She felt refrain from being herself and constantly felt looked at. Duras mixes up the novel with some of the events from the present and past, going back and forth with first and third person form. At first, the story is told in the third person then unexpectedly shifts back to the first person and

The style of writing from each author gives the reader a different outlook and angle while reading it. Both shared the same struggles as women in a male-dominated society. In The Lover dressing provocative to get a man attention. In Tomboy having to switch identities. Both novel fluently goes back and forth between first and third person tense. In The Lover, her traumatic experiences shaped her to write her story. She felt freer writing her story when everyone was dead. “Writing is nothing but advertisement. But usually I have no opinion, I can see that all options now, that there seem to be no more barriers. Sometimes I realize that if writing isn’t, all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it’s nothing” (Duras 8). In Tomboy, she expresses that, “only writing will protect me from the world”, (Bouraoui 10). She thinks a way of writing will protect her identity. Lastly, Duras and Bouraoui novels display the notion of autofiction. Nina and the young girl in The Lover bicultural experiences are express in a split identity that is only resolved through writing – a place where they are both free to write and be