Burnt Shadows

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Sajjad says these words to Hiroko as she tells him about her grief about Konrad. He uses his understanding of an English idiom and an Urdu concept to ask Hiroko how she prefers to be comforted. The theme of intimacy created through language appears here: Hiroko and Sajjad can find common ground using two languages instead of one, thus creating a "secret language" that they can share. Additionally, this is a sign of the burgeoning closeness between Hiroko and Sajjad, as they find common ground despite their differences. Though Hiroko is staying in the Burton household as their guest, she sees Sajjad as an equal and is curious about his culture. Later, she will tell Sajjad that she sees more similarities between Indian and Japanese culture than between herself and the Burtons. That she wants to be consoled in the Indian way rather than the English way is a testament to this. Jordan Konell, “US fiction perspective skewed,” Yale Daily News, 27 September 2011, http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/09/27/us-fiction-perspective-skewed/ Raza Konrad Ashraf is Sajjad and Hiroko’s son. He is a smart and intelligent boy and an obedient son, who doesn’t want to disappoint his parents. He is a flat character of Burnt Shadows as he remains the same throughout the progression of the novel. Shamsie’s historical fiction is also unapologetically political, portraying strong opinions on hot-button topics. This is a writer not afraid to be publicly critical of the “Islamization” of her native country in her fiction. She is outspoken on the subject of women’s treatment, unafraid to delve into the Indian version of the chaos during the Peshawar massacre of 1930, as well as able to offer a strong Muslim-focused point of view of the Partition. The issue of patriarchy — as a type of imperialism — is also deeply embedded in both novels. Hiroko and Vivian often express negative opinions on this issue, regardless of the different periods in which they live — and the author’s personal opinion on patriarchy is unambiguous: “Wherever in the world you go, you’re living in the world’s oldest and most pervasive empire, which is the empire of patriarchy. I don’t know a place I’ve been to where it doesn’t exist.” 3

Feminism is a theory or set of beliefs that aims at establishing women equality with men on political, social and economical as well as moral and ethical ground. The terms “feminism” and “feminist” become very much common and well known after 1970s, Katherine Hepburn believes that feminism was started in 1942.During these years so many other movements also came into being which mostly focused the rights of human .Feminism asserts to form and build equality among men and women in every platform and every walk of life. It struggles to give justice to women who are living under the dominance of male and are considered as inferior sex .They must not be dealt in this way male and female are naturally equal ,so to consider them inferior is a injustice. To solve all these problems of women and provide them equality in every aspect and every walk of life feministic concepts are established. 2.2: Three waves of feminism

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First-wave feminism: This movement started from 1848 and ended till 1920.Followers of this movement believed that women must be given equality ,they have their own existence so they must be treated equal living being .They should be given place, status and equality. Part 2 of Burnt Shadows Summary is set two years later when Hiroko goes to Delhi to meet Konrads’s sister Ilse, who is Elizabeth Burton now. Milton wanted to write a native epic for England, and the story of Adam and Eve is the result. He deliberately reprised many of the classical epics that had come before him, and I love how his poem is in such open conversation with so many of its predecessors. I love the subversively hopeful image at the end of Book 12, when Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden. “The world was all before them”, and they make their way into it “hand in hand with wandering steps and slow”. To me, this is a moment to be celebrated: this is when Adam and Eve become fully human. The world is a scary, messy place, but it’s always worth being in it – Milton thought so, and I agree.

Burnt shadows are excellently written by Kamila Shamise. She depicts an unmatchable panoramic vision of later half of 20th century .The story begins with the horrifying picture of atomic bomb dropping in Nagasaki and its worst impacts and damage on the protagonist character of this novel .No doubt Kamaila shamise is an outstanding writer, she earned lot of fame especially for writing worth reading novels .In the same way Burnt Shadows bears excellence. Munro’s characters are very much realistic and original .In comparison to her male characters her female characters are more active and worth appreciating .In Burnt shadows women characters are presented as very much progressive adapetative and realistic .Her females are more strong and they bears very strong moral and ethical characters and emotional strength than the male characters of the novel. The female characters are presented and painted in such a way that it remains quite easy for any reader to believe on them that these type of women characters can really exist in real life. The Novel Burnt Shadows is a story about its major character Hiroko Tania .Her character is very much original and real enough to believe in .Her character is flexible and who always believe in keep on moving ahead, this s because of her positivity that despite of the occurrence of huge tragic incident like the dropping of atomic bomb and facing the disaster caused by it digesting the worst damage gifted by it .But she gives her life another chance that she moves to India and accepts Sajjid’s love and marries him but her sufferings seems un end able as she has to leave Delhi coz of chaos and anarchy caused by Pak-India partition, later she loses her son Raza and moves to New York .If we see and analyze the character of Elizabeth ,her character is also realistic which symbolically represents all the women victim in the male dominated society. She is a common wife living under the complete dominance and working under the finger tips of her husband James Burton. She is very much sad and gloomy deep inside but even though she fulfills all the due duties & responsibilities of a wife very well. She never demands or complaint for equality rather always tries to present herself a happy aristocratic modern wife. Chapter 3 3.1 Research Question Q1: Kamila Shamise an eminent female Pakistani writer has depicted some secondary female characters as inactive feminist .Justify? After Sajjad's mother dies, Hiroko and Sajjad marry. They take their honeymoon in Istanbul, unaware of the fact that their departure means they will never return to Delhi due to the imminent Partition. Hiroko and Sajjad have a son, named Raza. Raza eventually meets a CIA agent named Harry Burton, who is Elizabeth's son.

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Her women are presented with entire new look .Her ladies are very much active and energetic. As we see in Burnt shadows Hiroko is found as very strong lady with plenty of positivity and huge boldness .She faces every hardship with the same strength and courage , at no place she is found ready to give up. In this way Kamila shamise has proved her excellence as a genius feminist writer. 2.5 Feministic Perspective in Burnt Shadows Sajjad Ali Ashraf works for James in the hopes of one day entering the legal field (James is a lawyer). Instead of teaching Sajjad much about his trade, however, James plays chess with him almost every day. Sajjad's family is looking for a potential woman who Sajjad can marry, with his mother, Khadija, spearheading the effort. The family is having a hard time finding a match for Sajjad due to the current political unrest in Delhi (for an explanation of the political context of this section, including British colonial rule and eventual Partition, see the "Political Context" section of the Analysis below). Most recently, the potential wife's family said that they would be moving to Pakistan and expected Sajjad to join them, which caused Sajjad's family to call off the engagement. Sajjad tells his mother that he wants a "modern wife" (53). Khadija tells Sajjad that he is spending too much time with the English, who are cutting him off from his culture and his past. Energy flows as photon waves of varying lengths, including in long waves, like radio waves, and in shortwaves, like X-rays and gamma-rays. Between long waves and shortwaves lie visible wavelengths that contain energy that our eyes perceive as colors. However, unlike energy with longer waves, gamma radiation is destructive to the human body because it can pass through clothing and skin, causing ionizations, or the loss of electrons, that damage tissue and DNA, according to Columbia University.

Different motifs like that of war and violence can be found in the novel. The idea of violence and war is shown through the novel. So, Burnt Shadows Title Significance shows how the past memories or attachments of a person causes pain and grief to the characters in the novel.Feminism has been divided into three categories by some feminist and great literary figures, the famous three waves of feminism are: 1. First Wave (1848 to 1920) 2. Second Wave (1960 to 1980) 3. Third wave (1990 to continued) Feminism has a long history as its history tells us that this movement took a huge span of time to become famous and earn name and place in literature. Generally it is believed that it went through major stages which are now a day’s known as THREE WAVES OF FEMINISM based on slight differences in believes related to the rights of woman in society. In early time women were considered as inferior in every field .they had no right to vote or to take any decision .they were not given any share from property and rather treated as inferior and less important human creature. Those uncountable and unavoidable problems give birth to Feminism. Rebbeca, Chafetz and Dwarkin, and Pateman were famous feminist of that era they jointly divided feminism in three stages and named such change as THREE WAVES OF FEMINISM. Ode: Intimations of Immortality Summary (Line by Line) +PPT by William Wordsworth Analysis of Main Characters of Burnt Shadows Different Burnt Shadows Themes have been portrayed in the novel and the most significant have been discussed with reference to the Burnt Shadows Quotes in the text. Burnt Shadows as a Post-Colonial Novel Raza is full of anxiety after Steve accuses him of being involved in Harry's death. He knows that he is up against all of the powers of the U.S. government, where they will invade his life searching for evidence. Raza knows that they will come after him even if they do not have evidence that he committed the crime. His religion and nationality mark him as suspicious in the eyes of the government. He is completely powerless. The way she has depicted different Burnt Shadows Characters shows what people have to face during war times and also gives us the different aspects of humans in these troubling times.