Mehta Drashti B.

B.A.

S.N.D.T Women’s University. Mumbai. Smt. N. C. Gandhi Mahila Arts and

Commerce college, Bhavnagar .

The Mill On The Floss

• Mr. Tulliver

• Maggie

• Tom

• Maggie’s mother’s dissatisfaction towards her own daughter having dark complexion

• Philip

• St. Ogg

• Dorlcott Mill

• Maggie’s love

• Tom’s love

• Bothe brother and sister’s love

• Meet to tragedy

Charlie and the chocolate Family Roland Dahl

• Romantic fanciful story of a boy

• Child coming from poor family

• Won the lottery for visit of Chocolate Factory

• Visited the factory

• Makes the life more better for his family members

• Mr. Wonka, the owner of the factory gives the factory to Charlie at the end

• Child’s journey

The Village by the SeaAnita Desai

• Anita Desai’s own writing style

• Hari’s journey

• Lila, Bela, Kamal and the family management

Malgudi days

• R.K. Narayan’s series of short stories

• Serial based on this

• Sony Entertainment Television and Doordarshan

• Learning through entertainment

• Edutainment

Sonnar Kella

• Dream sequence

• Detective Novel

• Mukul Dhar-remembers all his past events

• Dr. Hajra and ProdoshMitter started discovryof that place about which Mukul was talking

• Burman and Mandar Bose villians becomes alert

• Mukul’s kidnapping

• Mukul’s father consults Feluda, the private investigator

• Jatayu- a popular thriller writer meets Topsheand Feluda

• Burman and Bose befriend Dr. Hajra

• All reaches at the end at the place

• There was never ever any fortress

• Mukul was cured at the end

• All went to Kolkata

• ‘The Golden Fortress’ or ‘The Sonnar Kella’, here Gold as a symbol of wish or desire.

The Bluest Eye

• Toni Morrisons

• Nine year old Pecola, Claudia’s story

• Racism, story of Blacks, desire to get bluest eys

• How power operates

• How power can destroy the life of a girl

The Calcutta Chromosome

• A Science Fiction• A kind of mystery thriller• Several characters are in

many roles• Antar working alone in

nNewyork apartment, employee of The Lifewatch organisation

• Murugan• Ronald Ross• Phulboni• Urmila Roy

• Malaria Research

• Strange cycle of Lakhan stories

• Thus group's research using the chromosome-transfer technique would advance even further.

• The Blend of superstition, science, past, present, future, modernism and industrialisation

• Makes readers interest in the science more, how India is presented in a fair light

Animal Farm

• George Orwell-Animal Farm

• Old Major, the old boar on The Manor Farm

• Teaches the animals a revolutionary song called “Beasts of England”.

• When major dies, two young pigs, Snowball and napoleon, assume command and duty to prepare for the rebellion

• The Animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible farmer Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it “Animal Farm”.

• They adopt seven commandments of animalism, the most important of which is, “All Animals are Equal”.

• Snowball teaches the animals to read and write , while Napoleon educates young puppies on the principal of Animalism.

• Food is plentiful and the farm runs smoothly• Snowball and Napoleon planed in opposition to

each other• Snowball becomes scapegoat• Windmill• Beasts of England is replaced by an Anthem

glorifying Napoleon, who appears to be adopting the lifestyle of a man

• The animals remain convinced that they are better than they were under Mr. Jones

• Mr. Frederick, neighboring farmer attacks , animals win, Boxer fights despite of the injuries continues working harder and harder, was killed

• Animals started living like human beings live

• Habit like human beings

• As Human beings sometimes acts like Animals

• The seven commandments are abridged to a single phrase:

• “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”

– Napoleon restores the name “The Manor Farm”

• As animals look from pigs to humans, they realize they can no longer distinguish between the two

• So Men V/s Animals

• Animals V/S Men.

• Mirror image

• Irony

• Symbolism

• Nature, Human Nature

Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

• Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

• Marlow’s Job as an ivory transporter down the Congo

• Through his journey, he developes an interest in investigating Kurtz, an Ivory procurement agent

• Marlow is shocked upon seeing what the European traders have done to the natives.

• Setting Vietnam

• The three most important aspects of the novella;

• 1) he wanted the language of the novella to make the reader feel like they were fighting through he jungle, just like Marlow fight through the jungle in search of Kurtz

• 2) symbolically shows the picture of America’s involvement in Vietnam and the potential darkness that lies in all human hearts

• 3) symbollically shows the darkness of those Heart who were send in fight

• Anonymous narrator, at the end narrator’s attitudes changes

• Learning objectives:

• Only the narrator and the reader understands Marlow’s initial points; civilized European was once “Dark Place” and it has only become more morally dark through the activities of institutions like the company.

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms

• Not complicated book

• Simple story, flashback technique

• Earnest Hemingway’s style

• American ambulance driver Frederick Henry

• His lover Catherine Barkley’s past , her fiancewas killed in battle in France

• Historical and geographical background of the World War 1

• Intensity of Catherine and Frederick’s love

• No subplots and minor characters

• Frederick gives farewell to arms, later his beloved becomes pregnant

• His beloved dies

• Learning Objective: This is how as he tries to be away from his duty, but the result is before us

• One can’t be unfaithful to his own country as well as to his relation

• Patriotism and love

Emma by Jane Austen

• Emma Woodhouse

• No mother, Only daughter and Father

• She herself never marries

• Typical woman character

• Match maker

• Harriet

• Mr. Elton

• Mr. Martin

• Mr. Knightley

• Mr. Weston

• Miss Bates

• Jane

• Frank

• Emma

• Mr. Woodhouse

• Mr. Martin Harriet marries

• Mr. Knightley and Emma

• Learning Objective: How character develops throughout the novel, improvement in self

• Self education, learning throughout life

The God of Small Things: ArundhatiRoy

• A town named Aymanam, now part of Kottayamdistrict in Kerala, India

• Ammu, Mammachi, Pappachi, Dowry System

• Rahel, Estha, Ammu’schildren

• Baby Kochamma, Velutha

• "It didn't matter that the story had begun, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings."—The God of Small Things

• Dalit women

• Marriage, caste, family

• Ammu’s life

• How relationship fails, and reunited

The Weave of My Life

• Dalit women’s memoir

• Excellent story teller

• Untouchable caste woman in India

• Symbol of Weaving

• Hinduism and Buddhism

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