“The tiffin” is a “Red Maple” book which was published in 2011, by an author named Mahtab Narsimhan. She is living In Toronto. The entire story is based on a single “tiffin” delivery, “tiffin” is a Hindi word, in English, it means lunchbox. Tiffin’s are delivered by “Dabbawallas”, this is also a Hindi word. It means tiffin delivery man, they only recruit workers from their own community. This exhilarating story has many important characters, however, the one which impacted the storyline most was a young boy named Kunal. Kunal has a very diverse personality, but his most consistent attribute is that he is very determined. This is true because he is constantly taking risks to do/get something he desires. An example would be when on page seventy-two, …show more content…
He ran back, ignoring the pain that shimmied up and down his spine.”. He said this when Mr. Seth brutally assaulted him, and was going to sell him to a slave king, but Mrs. Seth let him escape and Vinayak gave him shelter. Regardless, he ran back to ask Mrs. Seth a question about his mother, who was friends with her (his mother had abandoned him when he was an infant). Another situation where Kunal showed determination, occurred in the book on page one-hundred and twenty, “… Kunal jumped onto the tracks”. This was when a dabbawalla dropped several tiffin’s onto a train track, and a train was approaching, but Kunal jumped onto the tracks and retrieved the tiffin’s, saving their record. This showed determination because he decided to go to extreme points to get what he wants, regardless of what the consequences are. This act assisted him to get a job as a dabbawalla. Secondly, Kunal is significantly well-mannered, especially towards his elders. He …show more content…
He is a sympathetic character throughout the story, he always cares for others and makes sure that he is doing everything he can to make sure that everyone’s desires are accounted for, he cares for the well-being of others. He proved this on page fifty-six, when he said, “I’ll help you in any way I can…”, to Kunal. He said this after he had allowed, a possibly orphaned child, who he barely knew, to live with him for as long as he needs. He also demonstrated sympathy on page one-hundred and seven, when he said, “I have a request…I’d like to ask that this boy, Kunal…be allowed to become a dabbawalla, he is young but an honest and hard worker. I can personally vouch for that. His training will be my responsibility.”. Vinayak vouched his job (dabbawalla) to make sure that Kunal would have a chance to find his mother, even though he knew it was not likely that they would employ him, as the “Dabbawalla Association” only recruits from their community. He did this without even knowing Kunal’s intentions of becoming a dabbawalla to find his mother. Second, Vinayak is also wise. An example of this would be on page one-hundred and thirty-four, when Kunal and Vinayak had the following conversation, “I know you think this is a bad idea… Yes, said Vinayak…Ask for something else or become a dabbawalla. That’s a much better future for you.”. They had this conversation when
... is a polar opposite to the start of the novel (Ch. 1); Vahan was a fortunate boy with a financially sound family, and siblings that loves him. Then look to the end of the novel, and has changed drastically. Where he once scoffed at beggars, he now is the beggar. This tells me that he would live simply, with modest accommodations and material goods. He has always been a ladies man, but every instance ended with tragedy. I see him living in the country-side, with someone he loves, homeschooling his children with his father’s beliefs, and his real-life experience. Vahan’s main teaching model would be the “golden rule.” After the Armenian Genocide and the holocaust, Vahan would want to make sure something of this scale couldn’t happen again. The principle of treating others how you wish to be treated sounds like it would apply to Vahan’s life on a very personal level.
The main character, Tom Tin, faces hardships and struggles many fourteen year olds do not have to face so early on. His father has mistakenly got himself into trouble and it is up to Tom to save his father and help make his family’s future bright again. Tom has good intentions throughout the novel, but he gets himself into trouble. He turns out to be an unlikely hero after pushing through his doubts and finally triumphing over his mistakes along his journey.
Zeitoun could courageously confront all the frustration and live under any conditions because he had experienced a lot. He was born in Jableh, fishing town on the coast of Syria. He began fishing when he was only thirteen years old. His father had passed away when he was twelve years old. He and his brother Ahmad grew up in a poor family. After Zeitoun moved to New Orleans and built his own business, he had finally improved his standard of living. Moreover, Kathy helped managing the company regularly. One day, Zeitoun and his worke...
This is at core a pitiful story which encompasses of ruthlessness and miseries endured by Ishmael Beah. All the trials in this story are chronologically prescribed and heart sobbing, in which a person who reads can in time weep while interpreting.
These characters, however different they lie on the morality scale, all share the sinful trait of greed. They all ask, and take too much, ruining what the good that they had in their lives. Understanding their mistakes offers its useful readers a lesson, not to demand too much of the things we are offered. The characters struggle with their desires, each of them succombing to their passions.
...such that individuals disregard the desires of others, even those who are supposedly close to them, in order to advance their own goals. The combination of subthemes allows her to easily juxtapose Velutha with those who aim to ruin his life. Roy also emphasizes the importance of caste and maintaining social status through her depiction of Velutha’s father’s reaction to his son’s affair with a woman of a higher social class. Roy’s political beliefs can be seen interspersed throughout the story and she repeatedly comments on the post-colonial situation in India through the actions of her characters. The amalgamation of Roy’s views on the moral quality of human beings and the political character of 20th century India come together to support her assertion that those who are overly selfless and spend no time trying to get ahead in life ultimately lose in the long-term.
The slave witch from South America. Tituba of Salem and her family were brought from Barbados to the United States. Tituba was captured at a young age and bought by Samuel Perris which later was brought to Boston Massachusetts in the late 1600’s. She became a servant for Samuel Perris and his family. “In November of 1689, Samuel Parris moved Tituba and his family to Salem after he was appointed the new minister of Salem Village” (Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, Tituba The Witch of Salem). People used to confuse Tituba with half Indian American and African, but the truth is that her race was unknown. No one knew where was she original from since she was captured and brought to Barbados then moved to Boston when she was later sold as a slave.
Against the backdrop of a brand-new liberalized world, Kapur sketches out Shagun’s boredom, Raman’s hurt and the confusion of their children, Roohi and Arjun, who are batted back and forth between parents and across chapters. The two new partners in the equation, boss man Ashok and divorcee Ishita, struggle to woo their step kids while supporting
Madeleine Thien’s “Simple Recipes” is a story of an immigrant family and their struggles to assimilate to a new culture. The story follows a father and daughter who prepare Malaysian food, with Malaysian customs in their Canadian home. While the father and daughter work at home, the mother and son do otherwise outside the home, assimilating themselves into Canadian culture. The story culminates in a violent beating to the son by his father with a bamboo stick, an Asian tool. The violent episode served as an attempt by the father to beat the culture back into him: “The bamboo drops silently. It rips the skin on my brothers back” (333) Violence plays a key role in the family dynamic and effects each and every character presented in the story
For my Play Performance Viewing Assignment, I went to the showing of a classic play called Tartuffe, a comedy written by the famous French playwright and actor, Molière. While the play is evidently named and specifically about the hypocritical main character Tartuffe, what caught my interest was the choreography and synchronization of Tartuffe’s servants. There were precisely two servants/followers of the lead Tartuffe, played by young actors named Nathan Keepers and Nick Slimmer. These actors would use specific choreography and synchronization in the background in order to heighten Tartuffe’s lines and dramatics in the forefront of the scene.
To begin, the tense relationship between the protagonist, Amir and his father Baba demonstrates the disagreement among child and parent. The role of father-son is a dominant relationship in literature; the father is a very important role model to the child. Every boy needs a figure to influence them; however Baba did not live up to his expectations. The fact that Amir and Baba were opposite from one another signified a weak relationship. Baba had expressed his concern to his best friend, Rahim Khan, who is also known as Amir’s motivator. The representation of social class is used to determine the relationship between Amir and Baba. Baba believes he needed to be an inspiration to his son. Harsh words like, “If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my son. (25)” can help define their beliefs. A child tries to build their parents trust by committing and altering behaviours that done feel true just to persuade a parent. Stereotypes such as: men should never be emotional, men always need to have interest in sports; portraits that Baba cares more about his class then his own son. Due to jealousy of the relationship between Hassan, whom had been introduced as a servant then later on revealed to be...
Human emotion is the final determinant discerning a good work from a great work, thus a good author will be able to stimulate their readers’ emotions whereas a great author is able to take control and electrify their readers’ emotions. The way an author captures the minds and hearts of a reader while transporting them to a deeper understanding is often unique to that author in particular. Jhumpa Lahiri is an expert who enraptures her readers with complex, sympathetic character development. Each person she creates and chooses to develop in her short stories, no matter how large or small of a role they play, is hugely important to entwining her readers into a profound and empathetic consideration of story theme. The dividing line between what constitutes a major and minor character within literary work is a narrow and often overlapping plane chalk full of inconstancies. The division is largely based off of the unpredictable, perhaps at times even random, nature of human emotion overlaid by author intent. Many authors such as Orson Scott Card of the Writers Digest believe that minor characters are plainly “inconsequential placeholders” ( ), objects who just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Although these minor characters are needed to add fullness to the literary piece, more often than not, minor characters share a limited and equal place to the setting: they are an extension of the background. Yet Lahiri manages to shape the small roles of these characters within her short stories it into something significant, intensely layered with thematic meaning, grand in substance. Jhumpa Lahiri is an up and coming extremely successful author: a Pulitzer Prize winner by the age of 32. She is known for her excellently authored...
In The Guide, the blend of modernization and tradition brings about conflicts to the characters. Raju the central character encounters several transformations in his life. We might say that Raju’s transformations are due to his own desire. However, a deep thought will suggest that the transformations and conflicts he faces are also the result of the collision between modernity inside him and the religion belief his parents refined in his childhood.
In this experiment we are trying to identify an unknown acid or base and its concentration by using the method of titration. The pKa values and the titration curve help aid in identifying of the unknown. In our case we had a base as our unknown (analyte). The use of a certain amount of sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid will be used to titrate the unknown solution that is given. This is the tirant. We used hydrochloric acid as our titrant. We achieved a pH of 5.56 at an end point of 10 milliliters. The unknown’s concentration was around 0.098 M at pka(s) of 6 and 7. The sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid are called titrant and it is contained in a container called burette. The unknown solution is held in an erlenmeyer flask. The purpose of the experiment is to measure the weak acid and base by neutrilizing it and determining the unknown acid by titration.
The big things are no doubt powerful and able to control small things yet small things are no less important. The overall personality of a person is the results of various small things jointed together. The novel also talks about rules (big thing) and transgression (by small things), love laws and love, decisions and destructions. The novel clearly expresses that the world of decision-making is not a plain world where results tally with one’s assumptions. The result is an outcome of a number of inter-related factors and is always influenced by the meta-narrative of the society. The main characters of the novel i.e. Ammu, Velutha, Estha, Rahel, Chacko, Margaret Kochamma, Baby Kochamma, Pappachi, Mammachi and Sophie Mol are left in the novel (a miniature of the world) to create an identity of their own by accepting or denying the big things of life. “Neither is they chosen from the common rung of the society nor are their problems related to food, clothing and shelter. They are rebels and their rebellion is not so much directed against society as against individuals. Their problems are neither physical nor social. They are psychical and emotional” (Kunhambu 277). Of course in a society, knit with power relations, their places promise different level of freedom and consequences. The novel is important in displaying that in a universe of big things an individual can hardly find oneself