Inheritance quotes Flashcards
colonisation
home/belonging
privilege
Sai
“fork spoon knife better than hands”
“English was better than Hindi”
Poverty
power/humiliation
The cook
WHEN did this happen - chapter one, GNLF fighters arrive, threaten the judge/steal his guns, humiliate the cook
WHO is it related to - the Cook
WHY is it important - GNLF are targeting someone of a lower class - ironic
those who are poor are systematically oppressed - leads to generational poverty
HOW does it link with deeper themes and context - poverty, power/humiliation, themes of generational trauma and oppression
“His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations,”
Belonging/home
Colonisam
The judge
“in this shell, this skull” - sibilance, uncomfortabel in his own skin - snake sound
“solace of being a foreigner in his own country”
Colonisation
Poverty
Gender
About the Dowry system
Nimi/ The judge’s father, the judge
“ugly face - a little more gold, a pale skin - a little less.”
Poverty
Migration (linely from migration)
Saeed Saeed/ Biju
“The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over”
Colonisation
line drawing description
“Very unskilled at drawing borders, those bloody Brits.” - plosive sounds, commenting on hostilness of colonisation
Symbol - Mist
“Mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains”
“Kanchenjunga was a far peak whittled out of ice”
Poverty, drawing lines - bad/ class division. Colonisation
“It was important to draw the lines properly between classes or it harmed everyone on both sides of the great divide.”
Thats Biju - Globalisation/ Colonisation
“he possessed an awe of white people, who arguably had done India great harm”
That is about Biju being in America.
Shadow class is the one suppressed by America, low class which can’t escape poverty and are exploited by managers
“since the shadow class was condemned to movement.”
Him being a hypocritе. Not cool. Colonisation
Culture isn’t clear cut, he can be against it and still want it.
“Gyan felt a moment of shame remembering his tea parties with Sai on the veranda,”
Gyan. Basically colonisation. He is being meeean. very angr
4- !!!!
“Don’t you have any pride? Trying to be so Westernized. They don’t want you!!!!”
Colonisation
1st GNLF
2nd Noni & Lola
3rd GNLF
“It is not your land. It is free land”
“It is our land.”
“It is unoccupied land.”
Class/ poverty/ privilige/ wealth
juxtaposition of illusion of colonisation being protection with the native culture taking back its their
“The wealth that seemed to protect them like a blanket was the very thing that left them exposed.”
home and belonging
biju returning
“the enormous anxiety of being a foreigner ebbing”
