https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k Made with wonder en-us 2020-02-28 19:17:39 UTC 2020-02-28 19:57:55 UTC hello@padlet.com lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452191691 Ashima thinks it's strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die […] In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. (1.4)

]]> 2020-02-28 19:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452191691 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452194047 Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband's name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. (1.2)]]> 2020-02-28 19:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452194047 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452196227 Upon returning to Calcutta, Gogol and Sonia both get terribly ill. It is the air, the rice, the wind, their relatives casually remark; they were not made to survive in a poor country, they say. (4.39)

]]> 2020-02-28 19:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452196227 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452197443 Most people in India were known to give birth at the comfort of their own home. Being in a hospital room all alone with a room full of strangers is something that isn't what she wanted. It is very different and strange. It also makes her different from everyone in her family. ]]> 2020-02-28 19:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452197443 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452200149 Ashima and Ashoke's relationship isn't what we see as normal but in reality there is no way to see affection, and their way is maybe different but it is not wrong. ]]> 2020-02-28 19:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452200149 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452201242 When Ashoke and Ashima return to India, they are not used to the conditions and are counted as tourists. Their whole entire family sees them as an outsider to their own home place because they went to America where it is in better conditions. Their family will aways think that they are in a place where it is rich, and they are visiting the poor which they were not made for. ]]> 2020-02-28 19:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452201242 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452207856 2020-02-28 19:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452207856 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452209159 2020-02-28 19:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452209159 lbhas_sp https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452210433 2020-02-28 19:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lbhas_sp/jvsuh2s6oc8k/wish/452210433