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    culture of their home lands‚ while others do their best to fit in. In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s short story “Clothes‚” Sumita moves from her home country of India to live with her new husband in California. She experiences culture shock‚ but she eventually discovers her own identity through the American clothes‚ her relationship with Somesh‚ and being widowed. When in India‚ Sumita wears saris‚ the traditional women’s clothing. She loves her vast collection‚ and it brings her comfort when going

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    Clothes

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    How do you cope with being removed from everything you know‚ and placed in a completely different culture? Clothes is a story about a woman’s life‚ which is about to be turned upside down. A marriage with a man she barely knows sends her across the ocean to the daunting world of L.A. Clothes os a short story of love‚ arranged marriage and clothing‚ with Sumita as the main character. Sumita seems like a very kind‚ yet naïve young woman. She believes in the American beauty and that everything there

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    Clothes Essay The short story “Clothes” is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 1995. Clothes is about a young Indian woman called Sumita‚ and she is having an arranged marriage. The story takes place in Calcutta‚ India‚ where Sumita lives with her family and her two friends‚ Deepali and Rhada‚ before she gets married. Her father has found a great husband from California for her‚ Somesh Sen. She travels to California with her new husband‚ and is astonished how USA is‚ compared to India. Somesh

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    Clothes The text takes place in India and in California in the USA. It is an upper class family. We can tell that by the expensive saris‚ the mahogany almirah and the zari that is used to the sari for the bride-viewing. There are many persons introduced in the text. The main character is Mita Moni. Later she is called Somita Sen because she gets married. She is an Indian girl‚ and she is going to get married to the Indian man Somesh Sen‚ who lives in the USA with his family. It is an arranged marriage

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    Clothes and Saving Sourdi

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    references and convictions do prevent them from effectively taking on the new culture. The two stories‚ "Saving Sourdi" by May-Lee Chai and “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ are about becoming Americanized through women’s rights and arranged marriages. In the story‚ “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ after the death of her husband‚ Sumita faces the choice of either staying in California or returning to India to live with her relatives or in-laws. She understands that life in India

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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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    SMART CLOTHES – “Clothes of the future” With this new time and age of technological advancements‚ the manufacturing of smart clothes has brought about a textile revolution. This involves the integration of electronic components and Nano-technology within fabrics and fibres resulting in the birth of intelligent fabrics possessing specific properties. Smart materials are capable of ‘thinking’ and ‘acting’ by sensing the conditions of the immediate environment. These are sensitive to the wearer’s body

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    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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    Adolescence and Clothes

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    my opinion about this statement „You can tell a great deal about people from the clothes they wear“. And I will speak about which age group of people care most about their looks‚ how important is fashion for me and what is advantages and disadvantages of wearing a school unifrom. I agree with this statement ‚ because you can get to know a lot of about people from they clothes. For example if man wear formal clothes I can make and overall opinion about him. He is formal‚ intelligent elegant and taking

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    items‚ and even through seemingly mundane events. In the short story “Swaddling Clothes”‚ our author‚ Yukio Mishima‚ uses symbolism in his characters and his setting to convey to his readers his rather bleak outlook on the future of Japan. His use of symbolism forces us to really think about the story’s message‚ allowing for a more memorable and thoroughly more enjoyable reading experience. In “Swaddling Clothes”‚ many symbols were used to show Mishima’s perception of post-World War II Japan

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