Day Trippers by Mihaela Rasmussen https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0 en-us 2022-10-14 06:20:49 UTC 2025-09-27 12:41:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Static or dynamic? https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353100455 Parminder is a dynamic protagonist. In the beginning of the short story, she is heavily white-washed, enjoying typical caucasian food, clothing etc. We can see her detachment towards her heritage and ethnicity here:
 "Parminder didn't like to admit it but she had a type. For as long as she could remember she had an aversion to Asian men. Years of her overbearing Daddyji and chachas had created a distaste for her Asian brotherhood". (paragraph 1)
"Parminder couldn't believe how little her mother knew her. From time to time food parcels were delivered, all based on the fact that she had loved Indian sweets as a child.(...) She didn't notice when the parcels stopped arriving." (paragraph 9).
But then she meets her high school competition, Aisling's, husband Gurpeet, with whom she finds her way back to her roots with. Forming a new and strong bond to her punjabi roots, embracing her ethnicity.]]> 2022-10-24 06:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353100455 Life values https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353130260 When Parminder is with David her life is polished and detached from her ethnicity. She enjoys the family she and David have created, and hosting fine dinner parties with cheese and wine for their friends - which made her feel sophisticated in contrary to her Punjabi family dinners
"Delicate little things, a world away from her mother's steel thalis and the heavily floral dinnerware that appeared on the rare occasions her parents invited someone to dine with them. Even then it wasn't a dinner party as such, but the feeding of men by a kitchen full of women and children, who would eat only after the men's appetites had been sated."

When Parminder reconciles with her heritage with Gurpreet she finds out she has missed the Punjabi food and clothing. She finds value in her ethnicity again.

]]> 2022-10-24 07:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353130260 Setting- Themes and Message:) https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353137505 Setting: London - Whiteness: 

"Weekly grocery shops at Waitrose, or Ocado delivery with topups from Sainsbury. The children's clothes were from Boden, Joules - with little bits from Next and H&M; the furniture from House of Fraser, John Lewis and, only occasionally, Ikea." 

- Leicester - Weekend trip - Reunites with culture, Diwali fireworks,

- Indian church

- Little India

Themes:

- Whitewashing
- Cultural assimilation
- Sense of belonging

Message:

#Remember your roots:)


]]> 2022-10-24 07:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353137505 https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353139370 Static or dynamic?
In the beginning Gurpreet starts as a static character
"Gurpreet didn't like to admit it but he had a type: anything but Asian." (section 3, line 1)
and later on he changes and becomes dynamic, when he meets Parminder and falls in love with her.
Overall he is dynamic because his opinion about his cultural changes troughout the story.

Life values?
Materialistic
Gives Parminder traditional gifts
Wants his children to learn his language = Punjabi

Attitude to Punjabi background
In the start he is very distant from his own culture and is intrigued by the white culture.    
      -  Cultural assimilation 
When he meets Parminder they find a sense of belonging in eachother and their culture. His attitude to the punjabi background becomes positive.]]> 2022-10-24 07:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353139370 Shalwar kameez https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353143018 2022-10-24 07:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353143018 Kurta pyjamas https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353144676 2022-10-24 07:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mr29/p20uw9v19ch52yn0/wish/2353144676