Anita Desai’s wonderful novel tells the story of a family living in the small fishing village of Thul‚ 14 kilometres from Bombay‚ India. It is more precisely the story of two young people‚ Hari‚ a boy of 14‚ and Lila‚ a girl of 13‚ with a will to survive. Their task is not easy. Lila has to look after their mother who is very ill with fever and requires constant care. She is also in charge of all the household chores and has to look after their two younger sisters‚ Bela and Kamal. Hari on the other
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Desai. It is based on the poverty‚ hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural community in India. {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Plot The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 km (8.7 mi) from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among the four siblings‚ is thirteen years old. Her twelve-year-old brother Hari is the only person with whom she can share her troubles. Their mother is ill and needs constant care and nursing. She is anaemic due to malnourishment
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with her family. When Dinnie attends the school she meets people from all over the world .In her school it is required for them to learn the Italian language. She makes friends with an American girl‚ Lila‚ an American boy‚ Guthrie‚ a Spanish girl‚ Belen and a Chinese boy‚ Keisuke. Unlike Dinnie‚ Lila has a very strong
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or even both. No matter what everyone knows that bullying is wrong and the people who stand up to the bully have the most courage and are the strongest. As said earlier bullying is wrong and it’s not right. In the story‚ Derek didn’t actually hurt Lila but he kept on sending her gifts when she always tried avoiding him. When people bully others it can push their limits. People will learn to hate themselves because they think something is wrong with them. Going back to pushing their limits they could
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PSYCHO In the film Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock successfully uses a variety of different film techniques that enhance the understanding of significant themes that engage the audience. The major themes in Psycho are the notion of a dual personality‚ women’s role in the 1960’s and the idea of voyeurism and how that joins into the concept of the gaze. All of these underlying themes link into the central theme of Psycho‚ which is identity. Psycho is set in the year 1960. The dominant ideology
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In multi-paragraph essay form and with reference to the excerpt from “Lives of Girls and Women‚”discuss the character of Garnet‚ his mother‚ and his sisters (Lila and Phyllis). Alice Munro’s excerpt from “Lives of Girls and Women” vividly depicted the character of Garnet‚ the boyfriend of the speaker‚ his mother‚ and his sisters (Lila and Phyllis). From the depiction of the characters‚ we can realize what a happy and harmonious family Garnet has. Though their characters differ from each other
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Book review of The Firework Maker’s Daughter The story is about a firework maker called Lalchand and his daughter‚ Lila‚ who also wanted to be a firework maker. One day Lila runs away to get the last ingredient needed to be a successful firework maker. In a volcano Lila finds the royal sulphur (the last ingredient) but she was in danger of burning. Her friend Chulak‚ and the white elephant Hamlet‚ save her from the flames of the lava by giving her some fireproof water from the goddess of the
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feeling as if he’d located a direction in which to turn. The only break‚ and sustenance‚ he’d had all day was the quick lunch with Lila‚ and the Detective was mentally and physically exhausted‚ frustrated‚ and impatient. Not a great combination. The words that accusatory tone that accompanied them his words was unintended‚ and he was about to apologise for it‚ when Lila reacted with anger of her own. To Tom‚ in his current state‚ that was akin to a red rag being waved at a bull‚ and the apology stopped
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personal and real. In the Adolescence part of the novel‚ Elena recounts Lila’s dissolving of margins before going back to when Lila got her arm in a cast (Ferrante page 81-91). Elena then continues to tell her story‚ the events leading up to Lila’s episode of the dissolving of margins. This is similar to the way a human mind works. People sometimes would remember an
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family is Lila‚ the protagonist with her two younger sisters Bela and Kamal and also their brother Hari. Unfortunately‚ their mother is very sick and weak and their father is a drunkard. The family is very poor‚ so to pay their debts‚ their father was obliged to sold his fishing boat and the cow. That means that they couldn’t afford money to the books and the uniform of the school for the four brothers. But Bela and Kamal had to be educated because they’re still young‚ so Hari and Lila do their best
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