a different history

Question 1

About

Answer 1

• autobiographical
• conflict between Indian heritage and her life in the English speaking world

Question 2

summary

Answer 2

• stanza one - talks about India, values the way god and nature and respected and allowed to thrive, contrasts the way society and religion are too rigid
• second stanza - conflict, enjoy being part of the English speaking conflict

Question 3

Themes

Answer 3

• conflict of identity
• language

Question 4

Great Pan

Answer 4

• Green God of nature
• immigrated, blending of cultures, divinity trances boundaries
• shift in perspective, consider alternate cultural and spiritual trusties
• different lens

Question 5

Sarasvati

Answer 5

• indian, hindu river god.

Question 6

sin

Answer 6

• morale compas, physicality of books, intellectual pursuits,

Question 7

language

Answer 7

• second part,
• complex, language, identyi, impact of colonisation,
• paradoxical

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

• soul cropped with a long scythe swooping out of the conqueror’s