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She is motivated by her upper caste status.
Who is Sera or Serabai?
It represents breaking the chains of poverty.
What is an education?
"Late again. Bhima is late again" (13).
What is class prejudice?
The shrug infuriates her.
What appeals to visual imagery?
Her hands were as empty as her heart.
She is most motivated by her low caste position.
Who is Bhima?
This represents not only life and rebirth but also death.
What is the ocean / sea / water?
"She could walk into the waiting sea" (1).
She pushes a wad of chewing tobacco in her mouth.
What appeals to the gustatory system?
The rising water tonguing her feet.
What is personification?
She screamed: "Unclean girl, dirtified the whole room while I was praying" (75).
Who is Banu?
"Are you having your period?" (47).
What is gender oppression / marginalization?
What appeals to the olfactory sense?
Although it is dawn, inside Bhima's heart it is dusk.
What is antithesis?
He asked her to forgive him "for not saying something earlier" (83).
Who is Freddy?
Dawn and Dusk
What is the complexity of Bhima's heart?
"They'll take better care of me if someone like her is with me" (56).
What is class (education) prejudice?
A laugh as bitter as almonds.
What appeals to the aural sense?
Her mind...races through the crowded hallways of the past. (3 part answer)
What is personification, metaphor, and sensory language (imagery)?
He echoed this belief in her head: "Servants have to be kept in their place" (67).
Who is Feroz?
Sera sipping Mangola in Bhima's hut.
What represents the generosity of the poor?
"Remind her that an obedient wife rules her husband" (72).
What is ironic gender prejudice?
The thought of her sleeping on one of her beds.
What appeals to kinesthetic imagery?
She gazed out at the dark sea, as big and fathomless as the grief that rose in waves in her. (4 part answer)
What is simile, motif, symbolism, and imagery (sensory language)?