The short story “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman‚ Sumita‚ and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and the color of her clothes. The traditional Indian attire for a woman is a sari and each one has its own purpose. Her clothes also indicate her progression from daughter‚ to wife‚ to woman‚ which is why this story embodies Mordecai Marcus’ description of an initiation story. The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow
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What we wear defines who we are; our clothes are our identity. In the short story “Clothes‚” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of an Indian woman named Sumita‚ whose clothes‚ Indian and American‚ mean everything to her. They define who she is and show the different sides of her. Her saris mean a lot to her because they are the only connection she has to her family and friends when she moves to America. Her American clothes hold a great sense of meaning to her because they represent her new
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Culture/Nationality/Religion can be identified from their clothes. Clothes and their colours have a great influence in Indian culture‚ however‚ it is completely different in American culture to some extent. In analysis to a short story “Clothes” written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni expresses the significance of clothing and the meanings which Sumita gives to the different colours of her clothes. Being from an Indian culture‚ Sari has always been an important clothing in Sumita’s life. Sari has been with her
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“You Canʼt Go Home Again” is a text written by Tariq Ramadans and was published in the newspaper Time the 24th of December 2001. The text deals with immigration and gives the reader insight in the problems there are between Muslims and Europeans. Muslims The article has a simple message: Europeans and Muslims should live in harmony and peace with each other. This shall be done by the Muslims and the Europeans having a better working relationship; the Europeans must respect and tolerate the traditions
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In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s text “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter”‚ there are three characters that go through the stages that Didion talked about. Death‚ test‚ challenges and rebirth are all present in the characters. Mrs. Dutta goes through some of the hardships living in U.S. Her husband is dead and her entire life is devoted to the family she had been taking care of. Dutta talks about how early she had to wake up in the morning due to constant habitual actions she had been doing for past years
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Post Graduate Programme in Management at TAPMI‚ Manipal by Chitra Bengani Name: Chitra Bengani Roll No: 12417 Batch: 2012-14 Date: 13.07.2013 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project report titled “Understanding people’s perception about IPMPlus and setting up a distribution channel for it in Kolkata” is a bona fide work carried out by Chitra Bengani‚ Roll No. 12417‚ under my guidance for partial fulfilment of Post Graduate Diploma in Management
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maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings or conventional symbol: widely recognized by a society or culture from the “Glossary of Literary Terms‚”website http://www.macmillanlearning.com. In the short story “Clothes”‚by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ there are many hidden symbol that is not noticeable at first glance. However‚ once student look at the short story more closely. They will notice that they can categories the three major symbols into clothes‚ colors‚ and 7-Eleven. Different
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“Clothes” By naming the story “Clothes” Divakaruni takes the titles and turns it into a symbol for something in the story. In this instance Sumita’s clothes symbolize her journey from her old naitve country traditions in India to her new independence in her and her husband’s new apartment in America. Divakaruni writes this story to show the readers that most Indian country tradition is for the daughter to have an arranged marriage‚ with someone she may not know and love at the same time but will
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when child labor laws were passed in the House. “They could be free and happy‚ like American children. (Divakaruni‚ par. 1) There is something unique totally to the situation of child work in outside countries than just "children need to stop working and be free" because of the way that they need to work to help themselves else they would not have the ability to survive. “I am not sure” (Divakaruni‚ par‚2). Furthermore‚ the paragraph 2 makes it clear she can’t help contradicting the House’s answer and
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Don’t say he didn’t warn us. Read his scary little manifesto‚ in which it all starts with a king‚ a courtesan and their gram sabha. It’s the season for us‚ of the older vintage in the media — starting with Arun Shourie‚ teacher to many of us — to complain endlessly about the juvenility and narrow short-termism in our public discourse. This harms public interest and is also unfair to those targeted in such arguments. My sympathies must‚ therefore‚ go out to Arvind Kejriwal on this count. He put together
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