Rula Jebreal, Sanremo 2020

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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'' This Blessed House by Jhumpa Lahiri

This book of Jhumpa Lahiri is comprised by 9 diffirent and special stories which each of them treats diffirent  themes but the one that seemed more interesting to me was "This Blessed House".It's a story whose main themes are love, marriage, dissatisfaction and communication.By all the stories, we understand the cultures and traditions of Hindu people which some of them is marriage.Indian people tend to get married by this regulated marriage without even knowing each other.Twinkle and Sanjev have known each other only for two months and they got married.But this isn't the only reason why they have some contradicts  within their relationship.Twinkle is the opposite of the traditional woman an Indian guy wants to marry with.She is not the kind of a house-wife ,she doesn't know how to cook and stuff.But Twinkle is such a bright, cheerful, interesting, and curious girl while Sanjev is the opposite, he is quite calm, serious and monotonous. There is the clashing of two diffirent worlds and personalities.The title is related with the events of the new house the bought and started to live in.The previous renters were christians and the house is full of christian statues and pictures.Twinkle as a curious person finds these very interesting but Sanjev can't stand them as he is Hindu.Twinkle even collects them as an museum and tells all their guests at the party they organised in their home,how interesting and beautiful they were They start to argue also about this situation.But in the end Sanjev is wearing Christian relics and came to realising that it were these little things of stubborness and cuiosity that made him fall in love even more with Twinkle.The story is about a couple who seem they have a healthy life and marriage but even little things or diffirent peespectives  can be obstacles to a happy relationship.

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jumpha Lahiri.

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jumpha Lahiri.

"Interpreter of Maladies" is a book which has nine different stories and each one has its own importance. Is a book which with its stories represents the Indian community at its best. 

"A real Durwan" is a short story which talks about an old woman called Boori Ma, who is lonely, she has no family, because she has lost it years before. She is also very poor. She "works" as a doorkeeper in a building. She maintains it and she makes it look clean. All the residents of the building like her, but also sometimes she is treated very unjustly. They have trust her the bulding to be safe and good looking. Boori Ma has a big and beautiful heart and because one night she wanted to go for a walk, to be out of that bulding only one time, there the whole story has a turning point when some thieves steal a sink, which a resident has bought for the bulding and all the residents put the fault on the doorkeeper, Boori Ma. As a result of this, she is thrown out by them and the she is COMPLETELY lonely. The main theme of this story is irony, because there are things promised to mrs. Boori Ma, which although she is thrown out, they never give her those "promised things". Except the fact that she is very old and poor and at the end also thrown out, she continues to be storng, as she always used to.

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The story is quite meaningful about relationships in family.The story begins on a note of conflict.That both Mr.and Mrs Das are relucant to accompany their doughters subtly alludes to their selfishness and negligence.That Mrs.Das does not bother to hold her doughter's hand also suggests the distance between mother and child.Mr and Mrs das apparent youth implicitly raises the question of whether they are mature enough to occupy the role caretakers towards their children.The clear cut idea of the story as I percept is to appriciate much enough the family metters.To be comprehensive,and communicative towards each other.This components might be the key of a good family relationship.

"Mrs. Sen's" by Jumpha Lahiri

All the stories in this book were unique in their own way. The author has used all these characters and situations to represent the Indian culture, feelings, relationships and obligations. The turning points of the stories as well as the foreshadowing’s are not always anticipated and that makes them even more intriguing to the reader. 
 Mrs. Sen’s story is quite interesting. She somehow is a representation of all Indian women who have immigrated; of women who weren’t married with love; of housewives and great cooks. She begins her work as a babysitter of this little kid who is always joyful and very smart. Always wanting to learn and know more as well as very observant. He often compares his mother’s action to those of Mrs.Sen’s. He values this woman and her strength but more than anything he understands her real feelings. He sees through her and the fact that she is unhappy with her life, her marriage and everything else immigration has to offer. One moment in which her unhappiness is reflected when she and her husband are taking a picture and the boy tells them to get closer but they don’t. Moments like these really mark someone’s soul and even shape their concepts of what really is love if you can’t even stay closer to your partner. In the end she has a car accident in which results of her dismissal of being the little boy’s babysitter. But this thing drives her into a greater sadness and she goes to her shell again and closes there. 
Overall this story made me have mixed feelings but I enjoyed getting a broader perspective of Indian culture and knowing more of these kinds of characters.

Week XIV / XV Assingment