https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg Made with panache en-us 2020-09-14 20:02:03 UTC 2020-10-07 00:16:48 UTC hello@padlet.com bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/745690311 The home of our narrator and his family. Formerly known as Calcutta.

Pg. 12, "Tridib did not seem... anything at all..."

Pg. 46, "only the underworld lay below the ground." 
***Culture/economic divide***

Pg. 86, "Listen, Ila,... like that here."

Pg. 86-87, "Have you gone mad... free of all of you."
***Ila .vs. Robi cultural divide, freedom***

Pg. 89, "My holidays were... take their advice."
**Education .vs. Family**

Pg. 113, Grandma is headmistress at girls high school, emotional retirement party.

Pg. 116, "I do not know... smell it stinking."
This is a major character shift. Grandma was all about efficiency and time, and no she is squandering it herself. Has leaving her job left her sad, or is it the absence of her job that leaves her with nothing to do?

Pg. 117, Grandmas attitude continues to change and is irregular.

Pg. 117, Narrator and family moves to new HOME. Much larger than previous flat.

Pg. 123, "In the years... are already over." 
Pg. 124, "But now,...to escape to."
**Grandmother thinks about good times as a child, knows best times are over.**

Pg. 145,  Grandma angry when Dhaka is once again brought up.
**Very conflicted about her 'home', going back, seeing changes... Maybe doesnt want to change her memory of her old home**

Pg. 148-149, "But surely theres something... something in between?"
**Grandma thinks of partition barrier. Confused how there is nothing to physically separate. Confused about violence**

Pg. 163, "She was frightened... always had been."

Pg. 172, "You're my love...just a whisper." 
**Tridib pronounces love**

Pg. 194, "listening to the news was a simple rule of survival."

Pg. 195, "because she'd heard... supply was poisoned."

Pg. 196-197, "My desk was next... moment of silence."

Pg. 198, "We left the room... surrounded the school"
**Police officers around school**

Pg. 199, "The men who... each other's shoulders."

Pg. 200, **DESCRIPTION of fear**

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P. 152, "After a while May...hand on my arm." **Ila Wedding**


]]> 2020-09-14 20:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/745691330 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/745714101 Pg. 15, Narrator visits May in London. 

Pg. 21, "When I went... the bloody underground."

Pg. 54, "How nice to meet you... your uncle died."

Pg. 59-61, descriptions of the older characters from a photograph

Pg. 97, "I saw Ila and once... language of affinity."

Pg. 102, Nick and Ila argue about who has really lived and has perspective.

Pg.100, Bricklane bombing and the death of many family friends and relatives.

Pg. 106, "May banged the plates... embezzlement against you."

Pg. 109, "I could not ... fault but mine."
**Narrator reveals his love for Ila, she seemingly likes Nick**

Pg. 142, "what right had... letter like that." 
**Why has Tridib sent this letter to May? Is the story true or made up? Feelings for May?**

P. 158, "might not be... pretty much alike."

P. 175, "That's true... ring me back."
**Ila wants to see Narrator**

P. 179, "Everyone lives in a story... only cries harder."

P. 183-184, Nick is cheating on Ila with a couple woman he has had long term congregations with.

P. 185, "Don't you see... I could never leave him."





]]> 2020-09-14 20:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/745714101 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/749889058 "I remember... a short holiday" (18).

]]> 2020-09-15 23:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/749889058 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/749899038 "So then...British had retaliated" (37).


]]> 2020-09-15 23:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/749899038 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/757405593 Pg. 49, "After that day... ways more desirable." Inner insecurities

Pg. 110, "And when she... as a chronicle."
**Part of narrator 'dies' when Ila spends the night with Nick. He is heartbroken**

Pg. 131-132, "I went willingly... edge of Frenzy."
**Poverty is used as weapon of fear to encourage work**]]> 2020-09-18 00:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/757405593 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/765668396 Pg. 89, "My holidays were... take their advice."
Pg. 92, "I have never understood... it to myself." Grandmother post mortem letter.
**How does Grandmother know?**

]]> 2020-09-21 18:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/765668396 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/765683393 Pg. 76, "Ila has no right... don't you see?"
***Grandmother defines nation as blood lines/sacrifice***

]]> 2020-09-21 18:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/765683393 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/785646466 Pg. 119, "And so, over the months of such evenings, she told me about the house she had grown up in - in Dhaka.
**Large family house, many relatives. Weird house, many additions, extending shapes**

Pg. 121, "Soon things came... the minutest detail." Grandmothers home is 'partitioned' by the families in their hostility.

Pg. 123, "She had no time... of East Pakistan." 
Partition divides Dhaka, she can't go back now.

Pg. 202, "Mayadebi threw an arm... I remember."

Pg. 204, "My grandmother starts... into the future."
**Nostalgia is weekness**

Pg. 211, "I understand very well... have you anywhere."
**Ideas of moving and home**

Pg. 211, "As for me, I was born here, and I'll die here.


]]> 2020-09-28 19:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/785646466 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/785660826 Pg. 122, "My father was born in Mandalay... of the subcontinent."
Railway colony Grandfather worked at. Father born.]]> 2020-09-28 19:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/785660826 bmostofi211 https://padlet.com/bmostofi211/4hrwg04zhi5nxhhg/wish/808679537 Pg. 191, "I could not...its just a game."

Pg. 191, "But this is for foreigners... this isn't Dhaka."


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