unjust of Colonel Graff to manipulate kids like Ender because of the physical and mental consequences and frightful exposure to violence and homesickness that would lie ahead for the launches. Throughout time children have always been symbolic of innocence; a reflection upon society’s mindset which is why Colonel Graff’s actions regarding the treatment of the children is such an abhorrent act. Although ability wise‚ children in the military school like Ender are mature‚ their emotional development is
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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represented as a dynamic arrangement between people‚ places‚ cultures and societies. Shadow Lines wakes us up to the furiously changing geo-political scenarios and governmental regulations that have led to the formation of the modern world as we know it. The process of othering‚ i.e. the creation of a certain sense of "us" and "them" has inevitably been created between nations and people due to the creation of boundaries or ‘Shadow Lines’ as Ghosh puts it. In this paper‚ I aim to analyze the feasibility or
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Advancement in technological development has made life easier and relationship complicated. The essence of humanity ‘humanism’ is lost in the name of partition‚ nation and borders. Ghosh attempts a revival for humanism in his The Shadow Lines. The novel portrays the futility of war‚ riots‚ violence and partition and also re-searches the lost humanism that has been thrown into the recesses of modern busy life. This paper attempts to prove that the concept of borders and boundaries are illusions.
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The Way of Shadows Summary Setting The story takes place in Cenaria City‚ the capital of Cenaria‚ which is located in the fictional land of Midcyru. Cenaria City is split into two halves‚ the Warrens and the East Side. The Warrens are full of cheap prostitutes‚ brothels‚ orphans‚ beggars‚ muggers‚ and slums. The East Side‚ though still infested with crime‚ is where the richer middle and upper class live. Cenaria is ruled in a Monarchy‚ with a single king ruling the land and power passing on
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That could be a reason as to why I was never crazy about books‚ and surely never wanted to read one. I eventually gave into reading and found that I loved it. My favorite book series’ to read when I was young were Captain Underpants‚ Goosebumps‚ and Shadow Children. Each book series brought out a different part of me‚ and introduced me to new ways of life. They sort of molded me‚ but I stopped reading books after the fourth grade; I just couldn’t find anything interesting. Although‚ I didn’t really
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The Narrator’s Perception of Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh’s “The Shadow Lines” “The whole world is a man’s birthplace.” This quote by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius shows us the basic idea of cosmopolitanism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines it as “the idea that all human beings‚ regardless of their political affiliation‚ do (or at least can) belong to a single community‚ and that this community should be cultivated.” In other words‚ cosmopolitanism is the theory that
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Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination ofSadness in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines The article undertakes a study on melancholy and sadnessin Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines ‚ concentrates on theforlorn figures of Tridib and the narrator in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the melancholy atmosphere of the novel. Bearing inmind Freud’s own understanding of melancholy as the uncon-scious mourning for a lost love object‚ the article suggests themoments of gloom in Ghosh’s novel could be better
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The story of Tridib in ‘Shadow Lines’ remain incomplete without the influence‚ or rather we should say the contribution‚ of the women characters in the novel. Main women characters in the novel namely Ila‚ May and the grandmother of the narrator‚ have a great influence on the coming-of-age of the narrator. It is important to understand their influence on the narrator first before that on Tridib‚ because Tridib is narrator’s mentor here‚ his alter-ego and mirror image. Tridib’s correspondences
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